Compete/Correct Question:
After pigs learned to pick up and deposit wooden coins in a piggy bank, the pigs subsequently dropped the coins repeatedly and pushed them with their snouts. This best illustrates the importance of ________ in operant conditioning.
a. conditioned reinforcement
b. latent learning
c. generalization
d. biological predisposition
Answer:
D, biological predisposition
Step-by-step explanation:
Scientifically, Biological predisposition is when a subject, e.g; human, animal, plant, has internal qualities or characteristics that increases their chances of having or developing a condition.
Simply put, biological predisposition is the likelihood of a person.animal of plant to develop a condition.
In the case of the pigs, their biological predisposition to pick up and drop coins overtime caused them to push them with their snouts. This is possible bacaues of the genes the pigs inherited from their parents.
I hope this helps.