1. In an experiment to determine the control of behavior, young guinea pigs are placed in a cage and are fed a type of food they do not ordinarily eat in the wild. When released, the guinea pigs are offered various types of food, including the one type they were fed while caged.
a. How might you attempt to show that the nervous system is involved in food gathering and eating?
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b. What will you conclude if all groups of guinea pigs choose only the type of food they were recently fed?
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c. What will you conclude if the guinea pigs choose only the type of food they ordinarily eat in the wild?
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2. Rewarding an animal with food helps them learn a behavior. Based on this finding,
a. what advice might you have for parents?
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b. what part of the brain must be involved in learning the behavior?
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c. what other experiments might support your hypothesis?
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