Sometimes Behaviour Can't Be Controlled by Conditioning Alone Because Instinctive

question 22

Multiple Choice

Sometimes behaviour can't be controlled by conditioning alone because instinctive behaviours get in the way. For example, researchers have taught raccoons to put coins in a piggybank, but eventually the raccoons don't want to give up the coins after they get them. This biological constraint on learning is called

• A) instinctive drift.
• B) conditioned aversion.
• C) the Garcia Effect.
• D) signal relations.

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