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What is instinctive drift?
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?
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?
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?
What is the best behavioral model for teaching operant conditioning in the classroom, according to Breland & Breland?
What can cause aversions to food to develop?
What can cause aversions to food to develop?
From an evolutionary point of view this makes sense:
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animals quickly learn to avoid food that has made them
sick (e.g. poisonous foods), because individuals that
learn ____ ___ __ ___ will survive
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
According to Martin Seligman, what is "preparedness"?
According to Martin Seligman, what is "preparedness"?
Humans appear easily to develop phobias to spiders, snakes, heights, and darkness, why?
Humans appear easily to develop phobias to spiders, snakes, heights, and darkness, why?
Schedule induced behaviours or Adjunctive behaviours is aberrant behaviours that occur during ___ ___ ____
Schedule induced behaviours or Adjunctive behaviours is aberrant behaviours that occur during ___ ___ ____
What are some examples of schedule-induced behaviors in non-human animals?
What are some examples of schedule-induced behaviors in non-human animals?
SCHEDULE
INDUCED BEHAVIOURS
OR ADJUNCTIVE BEHAVIOURS
IN HUMANS
SCHEDULE INDUCED BEHAVIOURS OR ADJUNCTIVE BEHAVIOURS IN HUMANS
