Chickens could not be taught to play baseball because they would chase the ball after it was batted, rather than run to first base. this was an example of _____ because it demonstrated that the chicken's innate pattern of running after food (the ball. took precedence over running toward a stationary object (first base..

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The answer is " instinctive drift".

Instinctive drift also known as instinctual drift is the inclination of a creature to return to instinctive practices that meddle with an adapted reaction. The idea began with B.F. Skinner's previous student Keller Breland and Marian Breland when they endeavored to educate a raccoon to place tokens into a piggy bank.