Edward Lee Thorndike (August 31, 1874 – August 9, 1949) was an American psychologist who spent nearly his entire career at Teachers College, Columbia University...

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...

recorded his discoveries as learning curves and forgetting curves. Edward Thorndike (1874–1949) presented his theory of the "Law of Effect" in 1898. According...

further to repeated pairing with another stimulus that evokes the response. Thorndike, who proposed the model, believed that learning stemmed from stimulus...

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...

Termites, Terman found that gifted children become gifted adults. Edward Thorndike (1874–1949) supported the scientific movement in education. He based...

educator Augustus Thorndike (1896–1986), an American physician Edward Thorndike (1874–1949), a behavioral psychologist Elizabeth Thorndike (1632–1672), the...

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...

lists and concepts of definition developed by psychological theorist Edward Thorndike. Barnhart subsequently revised and expanded the series and with the...

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...

career as a protege of Edward Thorndike, a leading eugenicist. Under the influence of his mentor and financial backer Thorndike, Maslow expressed the belief...

definitions for the Thorndike-Barnhart graded dictionary series for children, based on the educational works of Edward Thorndike whom Clarence Barnhart...

Westheimer, Carl Rogers, Margaret Mead, Bill Campbell, Georgia O'Keeffe, Edward Thorndike, Rollo May, Donna Shalala, Albert Ellis, William Schuman (former president...

Like his father, Edward Thorndike, Thorndike conducted research in both animal and human psychology. With Irving Lorge, Thorndike published a standardized...

additional insight into what makes people learn most effectively. Edward Thorndike developed the first three "Laws of learning": readiness, exercise,...

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...

through punishment or extinction. Operant conditioning originated with Edward Thorndike, whose law of effect theorised that behaviors arise as a result of...

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...

was named for the noted psychologist Edward Thorndike but later renamed following revelations which tied Thorndike to eugenics. Source: America Psychological...

clergyman, Edward R. Thorndike, and the younger brother of Ashley Horace Thorndike, an American educator and expert on William Shakespeare, and Edward Lee Thorndike...

Edward Chace Tolman (April 14, 1886 – November 19, 1959) was an American psychologist and a professor of psychology at the University of California, Berkeley...

psychologists as Leta Stetter Hollingworth, James Rowland Angell, and Edward Thorndike. His textbook Psychology: A study of mental life, which appeared first...

Psychologists Wilhelm Wundt William James Ivan Pavlov Sigmund Freud Edward Thorndike Carl Jung John B. Watson Clark L. Hull Kurt Lewin Jean Piaget Gordon...

other openly eugenic psychologists and education scholars such as Edward Thorndike, Leta Hollingworth, Carl Brigham, and H. H. Goddard contributed to...

ordered inquiries. Animal cognition B.F. Skinner Behavioral ecology Edward Thorndike Mating system Occam's razor Pathetic fallacy Philosophical razor Signalling...

strengthen reasoning and memory faculties. Disputing formal discipline, Edward Thorndike and Robert S. Woodworth in 1901 postulated that the transfer of learning...

longitudinal (β) and transverse (δ) lengths. Then in 1932, Roy Kennedy and Edward Thorndike modified the Michelson–Morley experiment by making the path lengths...

tended to be speculative theories. But by the early 20th century, Edward Thorndike was writing about human learning that posited a connectionist type...

treatment and control groups were published by Robert Woodworth and Edward Thorndike in 1901, and by John E. Coover and Frank Angell in 1907. In the early...

behaviorism. He also was impacted by Edward Thorndike, as he adapted his theory to include and agree with Thorndike's law of effect. After Hull discovered...