When the Brelands tried to teach raccoons to drop a coin into a box by using food reinforcement for doing so,the raccoons:
A)quickly learned this task via shaping through approximations.
B)spent an inordinate amount of time rubbing the coin between their front paws instead of dropping it into the box.
C)tended to bury the coin in the ground and then dig it up instead of dropping it into the box.
D)failed to learn an association between the coin and food.

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The raccoons spent an excessive amount of time performing a related behavior (rubbing the coin) instead of dropping it into the box, which suggests they were trying to figure out how the coin related to obtaining the food reinforcement but had not yet made the correct association.

When the Brelands Tried to Teach Raccoons to Drop a Coin