In their 1961 paper on instinctive drift, the Brelands determined that three assumptions most Skinnerian behaviorists believed in were not actually true. Which is one of the assumptions that were NOTtrue?

a) The animal comes to the laboratory a tabula rasa, or "blank slate," and can therefore be taught anything with the right conditioning.
b) Differences between species of animals are insignificant.
c) All responses are equally able to be conditioned to any stimulus.
d) All of these were not true

All the options above were all questioned by the Brelands. Instinctive drift as coined by Keller and Marian Breland who were former students of B. F skinner, asserted that operant conditioning theory wasn't true after their work on instinctive drift. Instinctive drift, a direct opposition to the operation conditioning theory of Skinner since an animal could still revert to unconscious behaviour after learning under operant conditioning.

chilljain33 chilljain33 · Answer 2 · 2021-12-17T10:07:28+01:00

D- All of the responses given above are not true. There are significant impact these studies on different animals carried out at different times.

All animals behave and respond different in the lab they are bought into and their skins show results reacting to the environment they are carried out in.

Animals never came to any tabula rasa or blank state. They were simply taken to the testing labs and treated with various tests.

There are major differences between different species and they put a significant impact on results of the tests as the animals change their behavior when put in specific atmosphere.

No responses are equally condition able by a stimulus. They get different stimuli for being conditioned in such labs.

Hence, the correct option is D that all the assumptions that were asked in the statement were not correct and were completely vice versa to their meanings.

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