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Description: Learning psychologist Edward Tolman wanted to determine if mice learned a maze through trial and error or if the developed a “cognitive map” of the maze. Tolman placed a rat in the center of a circular space with 4 alternative corridors. If the rat

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Learning psychologist Edward Tolman wanted to determine if mice learned a maze through trial and error or if the developed a “cognitive map” of the maze. Tolman placed a rat in the center of a circular space with 4 alternative corridors. If the rats were truly “guessing” a path, they should try each corridor an equal number of times. However, if the rats were developing a cognitive map, they should go down the far-right corridor more frequently than the others and go directly to the cheese.

	Original	Right
Observed	8	12
Expected	16	16

a.What are the null and alternative hypotheses?

b.Perform the analysis manually or using Excel or r.

c.Why is a Chi-Square called goodness of fit rather than a hypothesis test

d.What did Tolman find?

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