The document describes an experiment where scientists placed monkeys in a cage with a ladder containing bananas. Any monkey that climbed the ladder would cause all the monkeys to be sprayed with cold water. Over time, the monkeys began beating up any monkey that tried to climb the ladder, even though they were no longer sprayed with water. When monkeys were substituted, the new monkeys and even the original monkeys continued beating up any monkey that tried to climb the ladder, despite never experiencing the cold water punishment themselves. This demonstrated how a paradigm or pattern of behavior can form through learned experience and continue even when the original motivation is gone.