In an experiment by tolman, group a rats learn to turn right to reach food, while group b rats learn to go to a particular location for food. those rats in group ___ learn faster, thereby illustrating what tolman called ____ learning.

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Answer:

B; place

Explanation:

Place learning refers to the ability for organisms to pinpoint a location of a certain type of objects by observing their positioning and the distance that they've passed.

When organisms are learned to go to a specific location in order to obtain reward, the pathway to that location would be embedded within their brain, making them able to reach that same place faster compared to their previous effort.

Answer:

.those rats in group ___ learn faster  --> GROUP B

rats learn to go to a particular location for food

thereby illustrating what tolman called ____ learning. --> LATENT learning the rats "build" mental representations of the maze  during the experiment without the need of reinforcement, therefore they'll know how to get to the finish when they need it.

Explanation:

Edward Tolman was a philosopher and psychologist who was interested in GESTALT and BEHAVIORIST studies.

He developed experiments as a continuation of Hugh Blodgett's studies about latent learning. Latent learning refers to learning, an answer, which it doesn't show right away.  Tolman completed developing the cognitive maps studies as of Blodgett theories.

Tolman made an experiment using 3 groups of rats: each group had the reinforcement at different times while the experiment was taking place.

Studying the results, he realized that the rats learned the way of the successful path in all the groups, but they would only reach the finish only if they got the reinforcement.

The conclusion was that behaviour depends on the expectation of getting a "reward": rats would only get to the finish if they got the food. (reinforcement), BUT this doesn't mean that the learning of this knowledge / behaviour could be possible without the existence of this reinforcement: the learning could ALSO be produced without the need for a reinforcement process.