Psychology Ch.5 People

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American psychologist who experimentally investigated observational learning, emphasizing the role of cognitive factors.

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Albert Bandura
b. 1925

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American psychologist who experimentally demonstrated the learning of taste aversions in animals, a finding that challenged several basic assumptions of classical conditioning.

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John Garcia
b. 1917

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Russian physiologist who first described the basic learning process of associating stimuli that is now called classical conditioning.

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Ivan Pavlov
1849-1936

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American psychologist who experimentally demonstrated the involvement of cognitive processes in classical conditioning.

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Robert A. Rescorla
b. 1940

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Candian psychologist who has extensively studied the role of classical conditioning and conditioned compensatory responses in the development of drug tolerance, drug withdrawal symptoms, and drug relapse.

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Shepard Siegel
b. 1940

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American psychologist who developed the operant conditional model of learning; emphasized studying the relationship between environmental factors and observable actions, not mental processes, in trying to achieve a scientific explanation of behavior.

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B.F. Skinner
1904-1990

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American psychologist who was the first to experimentally study animal behavior and document how active behaviors are influenced by their consequences; postulated the law of effect.

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Edward L. Thorndike
1874-1949

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American psychologist who used the terms _cognitive map_ and _latent learning_ to describe experimental findings that strongly suggested that cognitive factors play a role in animal learning.

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Edward C. Tolman
1898-1956

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American psychologist who, in the early 1900s, founded behaviorism, an approach that emphasizes the scientific study of outwardly observable behavior rather than subjective mental states.

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John B. Watson
1878-1958