Question

Suppose one encounters construction while driving home. One cannot take the regular route but has no trouble in determining an alternate route to reach home. This ability is MOST like the behavior of animals in which researcher's studies?

Answer 1

Edward Tolman's is the correct answer.

Edward Tolman was an American psychologist and a famous professor who made contributions to the Psychology studies. Through a serie of researches with rats, Edward Tolman was able to develop the Latent Learning in both animals and humans. He argued that people are constantly learning even when they don't make great effort to it. When we drive or walk the same route home everyday, we learn the location of different buildings, places, and objects. If, for some reason, we're unable of taking the route we're used to take, we will have no problem finding a different one to get home.