Recall Tolman's Latent Learning Experiments in Which Rats Learned to Run

question 41

Multiple Choice

Recall Tolman's latent learning experiments in which rats learned to run a maze. What was the critical result?

• A)Rats that were never reinforced never learned to run the maze.
• B)Rats that were never reinforced still learned to run the maze.
• C)Rats that began to receive reinforcement halfway through the experiment rapidly matched the performance of rats that had been reinforced from the beginning of the experiment.
• D)Rats that began to receive reinforcement halfway through the experiment never learned to run the maze.

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