In the 1930s,behaviorist Edward Tolman committed virtual heresy among his colleagues by noting that:
A)operant conditioning principles cannot account for superstitious rituals.
B)when his rats ran a maze,they seemed to pause to decide which way to go.
C)irrational fear of heights cannot be explained through principles of classical conditioning.
D)when his rats were on continuous reinforcement schedules,they were very resistant to extinction.

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Tolman's observation that rats seemed to pause and make decisions in navigating mazes went against the behaviorist belief that behavior was simply a result of stimulus-response associations formed through conditioning. This observation led Tolman to develop his cognitive theory of learning, which emphasized the role of mental processes and internal representations in behavior.

In the 1930s,behaviorist Edward Tolman Committed Virtual Heresy Among His