Instinctive drift - Wikipedia Instinctive drift Instinctive drift or instinctual drift is the tendency of an animal to revert to instinctive behaviors that interfere with a conditioned response. The concept originated with B.F. Skinner 's former students Keller Breland and Marian Breland when they tried to teach a raccoon to put tokens into a piggy bank. Instead, the raccoon drifted to its instinctive behavior of putting the tokens on the ground or turning them over in its paws, as they often do with food. References Jump up ^ Green, C.D. Classics in the History of Psychology : The Misbehavior of Organisms. York University. Retrieved on April 27, 2013. Jump up ^ Lavin, M.J. Brelands and instinctual drift. St. Bonaventure University. Retrieved on April 27, 2013. Ethology Branches Animal cognition Animal communication Animal consciousness Animal culture Animal sexual behaviour Animal welfare science Anthrozoology Bee learning and communication Behavioural ecology Behavioural genetics Cognitive ethology Comparative psychology Emotion in animals Evolutionary neuroscience Human ethology Instinct Learning Neuroethology Pain in animals Sociobiology Tool use by animals Zoosemiotics Zoomusicology Pioneering ethologists Patrick Bateson Charles Darwin Richard Dawkins Irenäus Eibl - Eibesfeldt Dian Fossey Karl von Frisch Jane Goodall Heini Hediger Konrad Lorenz Desmond Morris Thomas Sebeok William Homan Thorpe Nikolaas Tinbergen E.O. Wilson Jakob von Uexküll Related topics Animals portal Biology portal Ethology ( category ) This ethology article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. Retrieved from `` https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Instinctive_drift&oldid=638492640 '' Categories : Behavior Ethology Ethology stubs Talk About Wikipedia Nederlands 中文 Edit links This page was last edited on 17 December 2014, at 13 : 57. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution - ShareAlike License ; additional terms may apply. By using this site, you agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. Wikipedia ® is a registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., a non-profit organization. About Wikipedia

Question: the early work into the phenomenon called instinctive drift was performed by
Answer: Keller Breland