According to the Gestaltists’ idea of transposition, if an animal is trained to approach a medium gray card and to avoid a black card, and then is presented with a medium gray card along with a white one, the animal will tend to:

a. approach the white card
b. avoid both cards
c. approach the medium gray card
d. approach both cards about 50% of the time


a. approach the white card

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