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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