Keller and Marian Breland Were Unable to Teach a Pig

question 276

Multiple Choice

Keller and Marian Breland were unable to teach a pig to drop a "coin" in a box because of:

• A) shaping.
• B) intermittent reinforcement.
• C) instinctive drift.
• D) successive approximations.

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