A Study Put Rats in a Typical T-Maze That Ended

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Multiple Choice

A study put rats in a typical T-maze that ended with two different directions.The study found that,if a rat found food in one arm on the first trial of the day,it typically looked in the other arm on the very next trial.This is BEST explained by:

• A)the rat's evolutionary preparedness of foraging.
• B)latent learning in the absence of reinforcement.
• C)the behaviourist view of operant conditioning.
• D)the formation of stimulus-response associations.

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