The Brelands' Inability to Successfully Use Operant Conditioning to Train

question 9

Multiple Choice

The Brelands' inability to successfully use operant conditioning to train pigs and raccoons to maintain their ability to pick up oversized coins is BEST explained by _____.

• A) instinctual drift
• B) incentive theory
• C) latent learning
• D) stimulus discrimination

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