Psychology & Sociology · Mr. Pankow: Behavior & Behavior Change

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Instinctual drift is ____

Answer

Instinctual drift is the tendency of an animal to revert to instinctive behaviors that interfere with a conditioned response
slide: Instinctual drift is the tendency of an animal to revert to instinctive behaviors that interfere with a conditioned res…
example: The concept originated with B.F. Skinner's former students Keller Breland and Marian Breland when they tried to teach a raccoon to put tokens into a piggy bank. Instead, the raccoon drifted to its instinctive behavior of putting the tokens on the ground or turning them over in its paws, as they often do with food

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