With Practice and Reinforcement, a Rat Learns to Navigate a Maze

question 33

Multiple Choice

With practice and reinforcement, a rat learns to navigate a maze. A behaviorist would operationalize the rat's "learning" as

• A) the decrease in the rate of errors, over time.
• B) the rat's memory for the correct sequence of right and left turns.
• C) the rat's internal "map" of the maze.
• D) the rat's decreasing reliance on cheese as a reinforcer.

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Definitions:

Drawer

The entity or person who writes or creates a check, thereby instructing the bank to pay the stated amount to the party named on the check.

Drawee

The party upon whom a check or draft is drawn, typically a bank, that is directed to pay a certain amount of money.

Stop-payment Order

An instruction given to a bank to stop a check or payment that hasn't been completed.

Writing

The act or process of producing and recording words in a form that can be read, understood, and preserved, often used legally to refer to the embodiment of agreements or contracts on a tangible medium.