Regarding Research on Whether Animals Are Sensitive to a Passage

question 302

Multiple Choice

Regarding research on whether animals are sensitive to a passage of time, which of the following statements is FALSE?

• A)Pigeons put in a Skinner box with a pecking key on each wall were not able to learn to peck at different keys based on the time of day.
• B)Rats on fixed interval schedules stop responding immediately after they received a reinforcer and did not start again until just before the next scheduled reinforcement.
• C)When scrub jays were allowed to hoard nuts in one location and worms in another, they would go directly to the worms if they were released four hours later.
• D)When scrub jays were allowed to hoard nuts in one location and worms in another, they would go directly to the nuts if they were released five days later.

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