Genevieve wants her students to learn how to read their textbooks to answer questions about the material.She has her students do an ungraded in-class activity where they read sections of the book and answer questions about what they read on an activity sheet.A few weeks later,Genevieve assigns an activity sheet to go with her students' reading,but this time they receive a grade for finding the answers in the text.If the students do a good job and earn high grades on their answers,then their performance is most likely a result of
A) a cognitive map.
B) insight learning.
C) latent learning.
D) vicarious conditioning.

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The students' performance is most likely a result of latent learning, which is learning that occurs without reinforcement and is not immediately demonstrated until there is an incentive to do so. The initial ungraded activity allowed students to learn how to find answers in the text, and this learning became evident when they were later graded.

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