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

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

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...

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

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

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...

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

sum of all objective circumstances at hand. The term was coined by Edward Thorndike. A simplified example of the halo effect is a person, after noticing...

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

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

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

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

Connectionism (coined by Edward Thorndike in the 1931) is the name of an approach to the study of human mental processes and cognition that utilizes mathematical...

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

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

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...

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

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...

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...

behavior analysis". The preceding behaviorisms of Ivan P. Pavlov, Edward L. Thorndike, John B. Watson, B. F. Skinner, and Clark L. Hull studied the basic...

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

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

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

Boss, German fashion designer, founded Hugo Boss (b. 1885) 1949 – Edward Thorndike, American psychologist and academic (b. 1874) 1957 – Carl Clauberg...

approach to psychology, such as William James and the behaviorists Edward Thorndike, Clark Hull, John B. Watson, and B. F. Skinner. However, not everyone...

Hoffmann (1988), p. 44. Hoffmann (1988), p. 45. Berger (1983), p. 42. Edward Hoffman (2008). "Abraham Maslow: a biographer's reflections". Journal of...

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

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...