Thorndike concluded that his cats were learning because ____

a. ?they ran to the normal feeding spot whenever the can opener was turned on
b. ?the number of eye blinks decreased after being exposed to conditioning techniques
c. ?they responded to a light whenever food was presented to them
d. ?across repeated placements in a box, it took them a shorter amount of time to get out of the box


ANSWER:
d

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