When the Brelands tried to teach pigs and raccoons to drop a coin into a box,the animals:
A)learned the trick only if explicit reinforcement was provided for doing so.
B)learned the trick if food was used as a reinforcer but did not learn the trick if secondary reinforcement was used.
C)had difficulty learning the trick because it competed with their biological tendencies.
D)failed to learn the trick,indicating that some animals have evolved to be resistant to operant conditioning.

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The pigs and raccoons had difficulty learning the trick because it competed with their biological tendencies, such as rooting in the case of pigs and washing their food in the case of raccoons, which interfered with the intended operant conditioning process.

When the Brelands Tried to Teach Pigs and Raccoons to Drop