Question

In a classic experiment, tolman exposed a group of rats to a maze for 11 days before he introduced a food reward. these rats outperformed rats that had been given daily food rewards. this demonstrates _____

Answer 1

This demonstrates latent learning.
Latent learning is a type of learning which is not immediately obvious and which occurs without any type of reinforcement. So those rats who did not receive a reward learned what they needed to do even without the food reward, whereas the other rats might forget what they learned immediately.