RACHEL A ROGERS, PH.D. COMMUNITY COLLEGE OF RHODE ISLAND PSYCHOLOGY DEPARTMENT Development of a Quantitative Literacy Activity

The Content – Tolman & Honzik (1930)

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Question 1 What was the independent variable in Tolman's experiment? What was the dependent variable? Psychology

Questions 2, 3, and 5 Describe the behavior of the rats in group # in a complete sentence. Interpretation

Question 4 How would strict behaviorism explain the superior performance of group 1 over group 2? Psychology

Question 6 How can you explain the very different shape of the graph for group 3 rats? Application/Analysis

Question 7 Can we make any assumptions about the rats in group 2? Assumption

Question 8 If Tolman had included a fourth group in his experiment that received a food reward every day for the first 10 days of the study, but no food reward each day after that, how might that group of rats have behaved? Describe your inference in words AND draw an approximation of what their graph might have looked like on the graph on the previous page. Application/Analysis Representation

Summary Supports Psychology and Quantitative Literacy 4 out of 6 categories No calculation necessary