What Did Breland and Breland's Work with "Miserly Raccoons" Demonstrate

question 51

Multiple Choice

What did Breland and Breland's work with "miserly raccoons" demonstrate

• A) Raccoons are less conditionable, and therefore less intelligent, than rats and pigeons. 
• B) There are biologically imposed limits to the generality of conditioning principles. 
• C) There are differences in appropriate rewards for different species. 
• D) Principles of reinforcement (derived from studies of rats and pigeons) easily generalize to raccoons.

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