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Which of the best summarizes the results of tormand's latent learning experiment? so first let us go briefly through what exactly this experiment was.
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Tormann placed hungry rats in a mage with no reward for finding their way through it.
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A comparison group was rewarded with food at the end of the maze.
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After 10 sessions in the maze without reinforcement, food was placed at the end of the maze.
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As soon as the rats became aware of the food, they find their way through the maze as quickly as the comparison group, which had been rewarded with food all along.
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So what's really happening is, let's say, you have a big house.
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Now, let's say the house is like a maze, like you have many rooms in the house.
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And one day there is a fire in the house.
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And you have to run out.
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So till that day there was no fire but the moment there is a fire you know you have a map of the house in your head you know where the exit is so you will rush out of the exit pretty fast so in comparison if you're given like reinforcements every day if you're given a reward at the end of the house and you go and pick that reward every day, it won't really influence how fast you run out when there's a fire.
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So that's called latent learning.
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The learning, like you have been living in the house, you know the layout, you know everything, you just learn and you make maps of things.
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But as long, but the fact that you have learned how to escape, there's no, there's, it cannot be observed unless there's a reason, unless there's a fire and you know that you have to run out.
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And then people can see that, oh, he knows the layout of the house pretty well.
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So the same thing happened with rats...
