Practice question · Multiple choice
Tolman's rats learned the maze without reward and showed it only once food appeared. Why did that trouble strict behaviourism?
Hints
- Ask what changed at the moment the food appeared, the knowledge, or the showing of it?
- Reinforcement was absent during the learning.
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A. Because learning happened with no reinforcement to strengthen it
Why
Latent learning separates having and doing. Behaviourism identified learning with behaviour change, and here the change waited for a motive, which is what opened the door to cognitive maps.
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