In Studies on Spatial Knowledge and Cognitive Maps, What Happens

question 55

Multiple Choice

In studies on spatial knowledge and cognitive maps, what happens to rats that are trained to find food in an eight-arm radial maze?

• A) The rats lack the ability to remember multiple locations of food.
• B) The rats enter the center platform rarely, if ever.
• C) The rats search for food in a systematic fashion.
• D) The rats fail tests for the formation of spatial maps.

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Definitions:

Confidence Intervals

Intervals that are calculated from the observed data and provide a range that likely includes the true parameter of the population, expressed at a certain confidence level.

Sample Increases

The process or act of enlarging the sample size in statistical experiments, aiming to make findings more reliable by reducing sampling error.

Level of Significance

A threshold used in statistical testing to determine whether to reject the null hypothesis, commonly denoted as alpha (α).

Confidence Coefficient

The probability level or percentage that measures the degree of certainty in a confidence interval.