There are behaviors that individuals of a given species cannot learn, or have great difficulty learning, because of a conflict with innate patterns of behavior, a concept known as
A) equipotentiality
B) instinctive drift
C) distinctive drive
D) evolutionary drive

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Instinctive drift refers to the phenomenon where an animal's innate behaviors interfere with the learning of new behaviors or cause it to revert to its natural instincts after it has learned a new behavior, despite reinforcement. This concept highlights the limitations of conditioning and learning when they conflict with inborn behavioral patterns.

There Are Behaviors That Individuals of a Given Species Cannot