bio - psych: lecture 4.2.1
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What is instinctive drift?

  • A decline in the effectiveness of an operant response reinforced by food.
  • A species-specific predisposition to be conditioned in certain ways and not others.
  • Excessive levels of instinctive appetitive behaviors.
  • Innate response tendencies interfering with conditioning processes. (correct)

    • 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?

    <p>Chickens</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What can cause aversions to food to develop?

    <p>A and B</p> Signup and view all the answers

    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

    <p>what NOT to eat</p> Signup and view all the answers

    According to Martin Seligman, what is "preparedness"?

    <p>biologically programmed and species-specific predisposition to be conditioned in certain ways and not others</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Humans appear easily to develop phobias to spiders, snakes, heights, and darkness, why?

    <p>fear and avoidance of them may have helped survival of our early ancestors</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Schedule induced behaviours or Adjunctive behaviours is aberrant behaviours that occur during ___ ___ ____

    <p>fixed interval schedules.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What are some examples of schedule-induced behaviors in non-human animals?

    <p>all of the above</p> Signup and view all the answers

    SCHEDULE INDUCED BEHAVIOURS OR ADJUNCTIVE BEHAVIOURS IN HUMANS

    <p>all of the above</p> Signup and view all the answers

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