You train two groups of rats to navigate a runway for food. One group earned a single food pellet, the other received three pellets. What will happen when you switch these groups to a training situation in which they earn the alternate reward (e. g., 1 pellet earners now earn 3 pellets and vice versa) ?

What will happen when you switch these groups to a training situation in which they earn the alternate reward (e. g., 1 pellet earners now earn 3 pellets and vice versa) ?

The group of rats that was making 1 pallet of food will start making 3 pallets of food if given the same training of the other group that was making the 3 pallets of food. However, the group of rats that was making the 3 pallets of food will continue to make the 3 pallets of food since it has already acquired the training and knows how to make 3 pallets instead of less. The difference is in the training not in the runway. Refer to Ivan Pavlov Classical conditioning.

Explanation:

From the analysis, it can be inferred that the training determines the quantity of pallet of food each group of rats navigating the runway will get. In is not the runway that produces the larger or lesser quantities of food but the quality of training given to each group about the acquisition of the food pallet.

Here is an overview of What is the Pavlovian Theory.

Overview

Pavlovian Theory is a learning procedure that involves pairing a stimulus with a conditioned response.

In the famous experiments that Ivan Pavlov conducted with his dogs, Pavlov found that objects or events could trigger a conditioned response. The experiments began with Pavlov demonstrating how the presence of a bowl of dog food (stimulus) would trigger an unconditioned response (salivation). But Pavlov noticed that the dogs started to associate his lab assistant with food, creating a learned and conditioned response. This was an important scientific discovery.

Pavlov then designed an experiment using a bell as a neutral stimulus. As he gave food to the dogs, he rang the bell. Then, after repeating this procedure, he tried ringing the bell without providing food to the dogs. On its own, an increase in salivation occurred. The result of the experiment was a new conditioned response in the dogs.

Pavlov's theory later developed into classical conditioning, which refers to learning that associates an unconditioned stimulus that already results in a response (such as a reflex) with a new, conditioned stimulus. As a result, the new stimulus brings about the same response.

The same is applicable in the training given to the two groups of rats in obtaining food pallet (s) on a runway.