Page 5 - Operant Conditioning

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.