Recall Edward Tolman's Latent Learning Experiments in Which Rats Learned

question 137

Multiple Choice

Recall Edward Tolman's latent learning experiments in which rats learned to run a maze.What was the critical result?

• A) Rats that were never reinforced never learned to run the maze.
• B) Rats that were never reinforced still learned to run the maze.
• C) Rats that began to receive reinforcement halfway through the experiment rapidly matched the performance of rats that had been reinforced from the beginning of the experiment.
• D) Rats that began to receive reinforcement halfway through the experiment never learned to run the maze.

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