AP PSYCHOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -One of the colorful examples of instinctual drift occurred when the Brelands were training animals for the Piggy Bank exhibit. The pigs were being trained to pick up large wooden nickels in their mouths and deposit them into piggy banks. Depositing coins was reinforced with food.

Detailed explanation-2: -the raccoons displayed instinctive drift by rubbing the coins together, dropping them, and rubbing them together again.

Detailed explanation-3: -Behavior: Raccoons are nocturnal, but can occasionally be seen during daylight hours. They are solitary animals and the only social group raccoons form consist of a mother and her young. Although they move slowly, with a shuffle like walk, they can reach speeds of 15 miles per hour on the ground.

Detailed explanation-4: -Misbehavior occurs when the contingencies of reinforcement alone can not explain the behavior of the organism. The term misbehavior comes from a 1961 American Psychologist article by Keller and Marion Breland entitled The Misbehavior of Organisms.