Tolman and his colleagues found that when a rat was forced to take a relatively long route to a goal but was able to see the goal and was later given the opportunity to choose many routes to the goal, it would tend to choose:

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Tolman's experiments demonstrated that rats form a "cognitive map" of their environment and will choose the most direct route to a goal when given the option, even if it is not the path they were trained to follow.

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