Cats Received a Fish Reward Whenever They Maneuvered Themselves Out

question 52

Multiple Choice

Cats received a fish reward whenever they maneuvered themselves out of an enclosed puzzle box. With successive trials,the cats escaped from the box with increasing speed. This illustrates

• A)latent learning.
• B)the law of effect.
• C)respondent behavior.
• D)spontaneous recovery.

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Definitions:

Determined Actions

Refers to actions whose outcomes are influenced or dictated by prior conditions or laws, suggesting a lack of free will.

Compatibilism

The thesis that both determinism (in some interpretations) and free action can be true. Determinism does not rule out free action, and the possibility of free action does not require that determinism be false. They are compatible positions.

Kant

Immanuel Kant was an 18th-century German philosopher whose work in epistemology, ethics, and aesthetics had a profound influence on modern Western philosophy, especially through his doctrine of transcendental idealism.

Practical Reason

The application of our rationality to practical problems—particularly moral problems—the solution to which consists in action (as opposed to a statement or a theory).