An animal is given an option between a yellow target that provides 2 grains of food after a constant delay of 10 seconds, or a green target that provides 2 grains of food after a variable delay: one half of the visits the delay on green is 1 second and on the other half of the visits the delay is 19 seconds. The animal tends to

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Beckett Roach

19 May, 10:17

An animal is given an option between a yellow target that provides 2 grains of food after a constant delay of 10 seconds, or a green target that provides 2 grains of food after a variable delay: one half of the visits the delay on green is 1 second and on the other half of the visits the delay is 19 seconds. The animal tends to

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Damarion Weeks · Answer 1

The animal tends to go towards the Green target

Explanation:

Assuming that the first half of the visit of the animal gives him the two grains with the delay of 1 second, the animal will assume that it will remain the same through out the day. Thus, the animal will tend to go towards the green target and hope the delay would remain the same. Therefore it can be concluded that the animal will prefer to go towards the green target.