When Keller and Marian Breland, two psychologists who became animal trainers, decided that it would be cute to have a pig drop a big wooden coin into a box, they found that
a. food was not an effective reinforcer for the pig and so learning didn't occur.
b. when given edible roots as reinforcers, the pig learned the task in less than ten trials.
c. the pig displayed instinctive drift by dropping the coin and pushing it around with its nose.
d. the pig showed intrinsic interest in the task and so reinforcement was unnecessary.
e. the pig would demonstrate learned helplessness.
c. the pig displayed instinctive drift by dropping the coin and pushing it around with its nose.
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a. the visuospatial sketchpad to arrange all the information he needed. b. the phonological loop to temporarily hold his list of essential items. c. the central executive system to juggle all the information he needed to consider. d. his prospective memory to remember the actions he still needed to perform.
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What will be an ideal response?
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a. upright walking. c. the transition from hunters to gatherers. b. increased brain size. d. constant movement from place to place.
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Indicate whether the statement is true or false.