In Studies of Rats Learning to Find Their Way Through

question 26

Multiple Choice

In studies of rats learning to find their way through a maze, Tolman and Honzik found that rats that were:

• A) rewarded every day learned the maze better than rats who started receiving rewards on day 11.
• B) rewarded every day learned the maze as well as rats that were never rewarded.
• C) rewarded every day learned the maze as well as rats who started receiving rewards on day 11.
• D) never rewarded learned the maze better than rats who started receiving rewards on day 11.

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Definitions:

Allocation

The process of distributing resources, goods, or services according to a specific plan or system.

Productivity

A measure of average output or real output per unit of input. For example, the productivity of labor is determined by dividing real output by hours of work.

Land Taxes

Taxes imposed on property owners based on the value of their land, commonly used by governments as a source of revenue.

Incentive Function

The inducement that an increase in the price of a commodity gives to sellers to make more of it available (and conversely for a decrease in price), and the inducement that an increase in price offers to buyers to purchase smaller quantities (and conversely for a decrease in price).