After Pigs Learned to Pick Up and Deposit Wooden Coins

question 56

Multiple Choice

After pigs learned to pick up and deposit wooden coins in a piggy bank, the pigs subsequently dropped the coins repeatedly and pushed them with their snouts. This best illustrates the importance of ________ in operant conditioning.

• A) conditioned reinforcement
• B) latent learning
• C) generalization
• D) biological predispositions

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