Multiple choice

In an experiment one group of deer mouse (Prymyscus leucopus) were enclosed in a big hall containing natural things like plants, hay, twigs, logs, etc. A second group of mice was kept in laboratory in cages without any exposure to natural environment. Then mice from each group were enclosed in a room with predatory owl. It was found that the mice that were exposed to natural habitat could escape the owl but the mice kept in cages could not. This is an example of ______.

  1. reasoning

  2. cognition

  3. trial and error learning

  4. imprinting

  5. latent learning
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E Correct answer
Explanation

The group of deer mouse that were exposed to natural habitat learnt to live in a natural environment with environmental stresses like competition, predation etc. Though there was no predatory owl in the natural habitat, still the acquired the way to escape from others. This escaping behavior helped them to survive the attack of the owl and those in cages could not learn the techniques to escape. So they could not survive

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