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Cognition and Latern Learning








                                                            An experiment (Tolman’s experiment) by Tolman &
                                                            Honzik (1930) and Tolman, Ritchie, & Kalish. (1946)

                                                            showing  that  learning  in  organisms  can  also  take
                                                            place  even  if  they  did  not  received  immediate

                                                            reinforcement.






               Hungry rats were placed without reward
               if they found their way out through the
               maze. Later, Tolman compared the study

               with  another  group  of  rat  that  were
               rewarded  with  food  at  the  end  of  the

               maze. As the result he found that the rat
               explored  the  maze  or  in  other  words,
               the developed a cognitive map. Another

               day,  he  placed  food  in  the  exit  of  the
               maze  and  the  rats  were  able  to  move

               out  through  the  maze  quicker  than
               before. The learning process is known as
               latern learning.
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