11 Questions
What is instinctive drift?
Innate response tendencies interfering with conditioning processes.
what did Breland and Breland (1961) suggest about instinctive drift?
food reinforcement can elicit innate food foraging & handling behaviours , which cause a decline in effectiveness of an operant response reinforced by food.
what is an example of instinctive drift from the lecture?
pigs or raccoons depositing coins in a piggy bank
What is the best behavioral model for teaching operant conditioning in the classroom, according to Breland & Breland?
Chickens
What can cause aversions to food to develop?
A and B
From an evolutionary point of view this makes sense: • animals quickly learn to avoid food that has made them sick (e.g. poisonous foods), because individuals that learn ____ ___ __ ___ will survive
what NOT to eat
According to Martin Seligman, what is "preparedness"?
biologically programmed and species-specific predisposition to be conditioned in certain ways and not others
Humans appear easily to develop phobias to spiders, snakes, heights, and darkness, why?
fear and avoidance of them may have helped survival of our early ancestors
Schedule induced behaviours or Adjunctive behaviours is aberrant behaviours that occur during ___ ___ ____
fixed interval schedules.
What are some examples of schedule-induced behaviors in non-human animals?
all of the above
SCHEDULE INDUCED BEHAVIOURS OR ADJUNCTIVE BEHAVIOURS IN HUMANS
all of the above
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