If rats are allowed to wander through a complicated maze, they will subsequently run the maze with few errors when a food reward is placed at the end. Their good performance demonstrates

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Latent learning is the acquisition of knowledge without external reinforcement or motivation. In this case, the rats learned the maze through exploration and observation, which was not reinforced until the food reward was introduced. This led to their good performance, demonstrating latent learning. Shaping involves reinforcing successive approximations towards a desired behavior, spontaneous recovery is the reappearance of a previously extinguished behavior, and modeling involves mimicking the behavior observed in others. None of these fit the scenario described in the question.

If Rats Are Allowed to Wander Through a Complicated Maze