Sometimes behavior can't be controlled by conditioning alone, because instinctive behaviors get in the way. For example, researchers have taught raccoons to put coins in a piggybank, but eventually the raccoons don't want to give up the coins after they get them. This biological constraint on learning is called
A) instinctive drift.
B) conditioned aversion.
C) the Garcia Effect.
D) signal relations.

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Instinctive drift refers to the tendency of an animal to revert to instinctive behaviors that can interfere with a conditioned response. In this case, the raccoons revert to their instinctive behavior of hoarding, which interferes with the learned behavior of depositing coins.

Sometimes Behavior Can't Be Controlled by Conditioning Alone, Because Instinctive