In a classic experiment, two groups of rats explored a maze with the first group being rewarded with food at the end of the maze, while the second group wandered the maze but were unrewarded and showed no signs of learning. Later, when the second group was rewarded with food at the end of the maze, this second group of "uneducated" rats
A)only then began to learn the maze.
B)learned the maze but always showed a much slower completion time as compared to the first group.
C)ran the maze as quickly as the first group.
D)never learned the maze until numerous feeding trials were utilized.

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This experiment demonstrates latent learning, where the second group of rats had actually learned the maze during their unrewarded explorations but only demonstrated this knowledge once a reward was introduced, running the maze as quickly as the first group.

In a Classic Experiment, Two Groups of Rats Explored a Maze