Edward L. Thorndike’s scientific contributions

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Educational psychology, Vol 2: The psychology of learning.
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January 1913

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Edward L. Thorndike

This volume presents the results of psychological studies of human learning and organizes and interprets them for students' use. It is not a complete summary and criticism of the experimental work on this topic; for such a summary and criticism would be too heterogeneous and too complicated by intricacies of method and argument. On the other hand it is not a dogmatic account of the facts as I myself see and judge them; for such an account, though of merit in respect to clearness, brevity and straightforwardness, would not supply the training in first-hand examination of quantitative methods and results which advanced students of educational psychology need. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2012 APA, all rights reserved)

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... When stimuli repeatedly occur close together in time or space, the occurrence of one can evoke the memory of the other. Through practice, sequences of actions become associated and enforced [96,216,204], allowing animals to execute complex behavioral responses reliably. ...

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From Dionysius Emerges Apollo -- Learning Patterns and Abstractions from Perceptual Sequences
Educational psychology, Vol 2: The psychology of learning.
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  • January 1913