Edward Lee Thorndike (August 31, 1874 – August 9, 1949) was an American psychologist who spent nearly his entire career at Teachers College, Columbia University...
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Psychology of learning (section Edward Thorndike)
recorded his discoveries as learning curves and forgetting curves. Edward Thorndike (1874–1949) presented his theory of the "Law of Effect" in 1898. According...
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conditioning chamber as a variation of the puzzle box originally created by Edward Thorndike. While Skinner's early studies were done using rats, he later moved...
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Stimulus–response model (section Edward Thorndike)
further to repeated pairing with another stimulus that evokes the response. Thorndike, who proposed the model, believed that learning stemmed from stimulus...
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Law of effect (redirect from Thorndike's law of effect)
The law of effect, or Thorndike's law, is a psychology principle advanced by Edward Thorndike in 1898 on the matter of behavioral conditioning (not then...
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Educational psychology (section Edward Thorndike)
Termites, Terman found that gifted children become gifted adults. Edward Thorndike (1874–1949) supported the scientific movement in education. He based...
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sum of all objective circumstances at hand. The term was coined by Edward Thorndike. A simplified example of the halo effect is when a person, after noticing...
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lists and concepts of definition developed by psychological theorist Edward Thorndike. Barnhart subsequently revised and expanded the series and with the...
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educator Augustus Thorndike (1896–1986), an American physician Edward Thorndike (1874–1949), a behavioral psychologist Elizabeth Thorndike (1632–1672), the...
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Like his father, Edward Thorndike, Thorndike conducted research in both animal and human psychology. With Irving Lorge, Thorndike published a standardized...
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from earlier research in the late nineteenth century, such as when Edward Thorndike pioneered the law of effect, a procedure that involved the use of consequences...
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Edward Chace Tolman (April 14, 1886 – November 19, 1959) was an American psychologist and a professor of psychology at the University of California, Berkeley...
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definitions for the Thorndike-Barnhart graded dictionary series for children, based on the educational works of Edward Thorndike whom Clarence Barnhart...
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career as a protege of Edward Thorndike, a leading Eugenecist. Under the influence of his mentor and financial backer Thorndike, Maslow expressed the belief...
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Westheimer, Carl Rogers, Margaret Mead, Bill Campbell, Georgia O'Keeffe, Edward Thorndike, Rollo May, Donna Shalala, Albert Ellis, William Schuman (former president...
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was named for the noted psychologist Edward Thorndike but later renamed following revelations which tied Thorndike to eugenics. Source: America Psychological...
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through punishment or extinction. Operant conditioning originated with Edward Thorndike, whose law of effect theorised that behaviors arise as a result of...
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following in the footsteps of its founder Louis Leon Thurstone and of Edward Thorndike, who held the position in 1937. Guilford held a number of posts at...
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additional insight into what makes people learn most effectively. Edward Thorndike developed the first three "Laws of learning": readiness, exercise,...
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clergyman, Edward R. Thorndike, and the younger brother of Ashley Horace Thorndike, an American educator and expert on William Shakespeare, and Edward Lee Thorndike...
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frames. The Kennedy–Thorndike experiment was designed to do that, and was first performed in 1932 by Roy Kennedy and Edward Thorndike. They obtained a null...
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tended to be speculative theories. But by the early 20th century, Edward Thorndike was writing about human learning that posited a connectionist type...
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ordered inquiries. Animal cognition B.F. Skinner Behavioral ecology Edward Thorndike Mating system Occam's razor Pathetic fallacy Philosophical razor Signalling...
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legislator Sarah Thomas, Vice President for Libraries, Harvard University Edward Thorndike, prominent educational psychologist and eugenicist Bob Toski, golfer...
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other openly eugenic psychologists and education scholars such as Edward Thorndike, Leta Hollingworth, Carl Brigham, and H. H. Goddard contributed to...
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Psychologists Wilhelm Wundt William James Ivan Pavlov Sigmund Freud Edward Thorndike Carl Jung John B. Watson Clark L. Hull Kurt Lewin Jean Piaget Gordon...
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psychologists as Leta Stetter Hollingworth, James Rowland Angell, and Edward Thorndike. His textbook Psychology: A study of mental life, which appeared first...
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longitudinal (β) and transverse (δ) lengths. Then in 1932, Roy Kennedy and Edward Thorndike modified the Michelson–Morley experiment by making the path lengths...
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Psychologists Wilhelm Wundt William James Ivan Pavlov Sigmund Freud Edward Thorndike Carl Jung John B. Watson Clark L. Hull Kurt Lewin Jean Piaget Gordon...
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these methods through trial-and-error (which American psychologist Edward Thorndike had claimed to be the basis of all animal learning, through his law...
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