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

question 84

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 given an incentive never learned to run the maze.
• B)Rats that were never given an incentive still learned to run the maze.
• C)Rats that began to receive an incentive 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 an incentive halfway through the experiment never learned to run the maze.

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