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.
Step-by-step 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.