Tolman Chapter 23

Tolman instructed at ____

• University of California at Berkeley

• Massachusetts Institute of Technology

• University of California at Los Angeles

• Harvard University

Tolman is most known for

• latent learning

• experimenting with rats

• cognitive maps

• intervening variable

What is a cognitive map

• a representation of remembering stimuli

• a type of mental representation which serves an individual to acquire or recall

• a diagram of the frontal lobe

What is latent learning?

• lean w/ it, rock w/ it

• subconscious storage of information

• a type of observational learning where the learning doesn't have to actively participate

• a type of learning that occurs without direct reinforcement or punishment

• Psychologists such as Tolman and Kohler believed that they must look beyond ______ and ____ in order to understand behavior.

• visible stimuli; responses

• mental; psychological experiences

• clouds; stars

• clinical; analyitcal

The majority of the rats chose the shortcut

• True

• False

What is an intervening variable?

• a variable that initiates an experiment

• a variable that contradicts two results

• a variable that helps explains the relationship between two variables