QUESTION 7 An animal trainer has a hard time conditioning a pig to pick up a lar

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QUESTION 7 An animal trainer has a hard time conditioning a pig to pick up a large wooden penny and put it in a big "piggy bank" because the pig seems to prefer to push the coin around with its snout (a more natural behavior for a pig) even though it is not reinforced for this behavior. The failure of operant conditioning in this case is most likely due to the principle of social proof latent learning O spontaneous recovery instinctive drift QUESTION 8 Veronica's psychology professor schedules tests every two weeks throughout the semester. For Veronica, studying is reinforced on a schedule O fixed interval fixed ratio variable interval variable ratio

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Q 7. Answer - Instinctive drift

It’s a tendency, especially for the animals to go back to their instinctive behaviour despite the conditioning which teaches them otherwise.

Q 8. Answer – Fixed interval

Fix interval is a schedule that operant conditioning presents. This schedule is fixed, in this example it’s every two weeks. So once in two weeks there will be a test until the semester gets over.

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