In 1961, Breland and Breland, two of Skinner's students, conditioned 38 different species and more than 6,000 animals. They coined the term instinctive drift which means that an organism will revert back to inborn behavioral tendencies if it learns a new behavior.
The biological constraint model of learning suggests that some behaviors found to be useful for survival are more likely to be learned than others.
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