Tolman and Honzik (1930) revisited or the mazes of psychology (1930-1980)

After its description by Tolman and Honzik in 1930 under the title "'Insight' in rats," the sudden adjustment of some rats to a new maze setup had been ascribed to perception and mnemonization, to consciousness and inventive ideation to reasoning or, again, to inferential expectation. ln 1948, inventing the cognitive map, Tolman did not refer to this behavior "to lend further support to the doctrine of building up of maps" (Tolman, 1948, p. 200). Nevertheless, psychologists have not ceased to fit it to that famous Tolmanian concept.