QUESTION 10 How did scientists realize they\'d been stimulating the part of a ra

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QUESTION 10 How did scientists realize they'd been stimulating the part of a rats brain in an area that made the rat feel" good? O A. The rat would twitch its whiskers in response to the stimulus, which is how rats communicate to other rats that something is good B. The rats were trained to push a lever when they "felt good and they did this in response to particular brain stimulations. O C. The rat kept behaving in such a way as to repeat the stimulus over and over, no matter what other activities were offered D When rats were given a choice between the stimulus and a piece of their favorite food, they couldn't decide what to do and so did nothing E. Electrical stimulation in any part of a rats brain caused it to try to behave in such way as to repeat the stimulation, so it must have "Telt good

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In 1930s a skinner box or an operating box was devised where the rats learn to press the lever for food and get a slight shock for wrong button press. The same way, a lever woud be pressed for brain stimulus, which was the modified type of the box. Option B would suit.The rats would keep pressing the lever for additional stimuli.

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