You spend days wandering aimlessly around a park with many paths that end at different parts of the park. One day when you arrive at the park, you get a call on your cell phone from a cousin whom you haven't seen in years, and she says she is waiting for you in a particular section of the park. Even though the paths are complicated and twisted, you manage to find the shortest route to your cousin. Tolman would explain your efficient passage through the park as an example of _____
A)spontaneous recovery.
B)insight.
C)the formation of a cognitive map.
D)unconscious trial-and-error imagery.

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Tolman postulated the concept of the cognitive map, which was in marked contrast to the behaviorist views of the time.

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