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Psychologist Edward Tolman wanted to know how rats successfully navigate their surroundings - for example, a maze containing a hidden reward. Would they build mental maps of the maze as they investigated it or would they learn to navigate the maze through stimulus-response?
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Tolman and his colleagues trained rats in a maze which offered them many different tunnels to enter first. One of the tunnels twisted and turned but consistently led to the…![A maze for rats has many dead end paths and only one that leads to cheese. A dotted line leads to a dead end. Caption says, "When the tunnel to the reward is blocked the rats follow their mental map and choose the tunnel that leads in the direction where they know the reward to be."](https://undsci.berkeley.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/12955_evo_resources_resource_image_13_original-350x334.gif)