Pigs trained to pick up large wooden coins subsequently delayed receiving a food reinforcer because they would repeatedly drop and push the coins with their snout.This best illustrates
A) modeling.
B) cognitive maps.
C) instinctive drift.
D) latent learning.

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Instinctive drift refers to the tendency for an animal's innate, instinctual behaviors to interfere with its conditioned behaviors. In this scenario, the pigs' instinctual behavior of rooting and pushing with their snouts interferes with their learned behavior of picking up the wooden coins, leading to delays in receiving a food reinforcer. This is not a result of modeling, cognitive maps, or latent learning.

Pigs Trained to Pick Up Large Wooden Coins Subsequently Delayed