In Training Various Animals to Perform Tricks, Marian and Keller

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In training various animals to perform tricks, Marian and Keller Breland discovered that certain natural behavior patterns interfered with the operant behaviors they were attempting to condition in some animals, a phenomenon called instinctive drift.

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Plus Four Estimate

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