In their 1961 paper on instinctive drift,the Brelands determined that three assumptions most Skinnerian behaviorists believed in were not actually true.Which is one of the assumptions that was NOT true?
A)The animal comes to the laboratory a tabula rasa,or "blank slate," and can be taught anything with the right conditioning.
B)Differences between species of animals are insignificant.
C)All responses are equally able to be conditioned to any stimulus.
D)All of these were not true.

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The Brelands found that animals have innate behaviors that can interfere with conditioned responses, challenging the assumptions that animals are blank slates, species differences are insignificant, and all responses can be conditioned equally.

In Their 1961 Paper on Instinctive Drift,the Brelands Determined That