Which of the following is an example of how the media could influence public policy? a. a newspaper runs a story about a local woman who became a u. s. citizen after 12 years. b. a radio station broadcasts an archived recording of one of president roosevelt's chats. c. a tv station reports that 90 percent of americans prefer sales taxes to income taxes. d. an internet site keeps track of how many people have linked other sites to its pages.

In e. c. tolman's experiment, some rats were trained to run through mazes for standard food goals, while other rats were allowed to explore the mazes for 10 days without food goals or other rewards. later, when food rewards were placed in a box at the far end of the maze, the previously unrewarded rats reached the food box as quickly as the rewarded rats after only one or two trials. this experiment demonstrated that the rats had the ability to form of their surroundings.