Edward Thorndike

completing his master’s degree in psychology at City College of New York. Then, he joined the Army, and this circumstance brought him into contact with several pioneers in the field of intelligence theory, including Karl Pearson, Charles Spearman, Edward Thorndike and Robert Yerkes. While awaiting his induction, Wechsler volunteered to score the Army Alpha test, one of the two group intelligence tests developed by the Committee on the Psychological Examination of Recruits. Next, he became an…

behaviorism include cognitive psychology, constructivism, social constructivism, experimental learning, multiple intelligence, and situated learning theory. The major thinkers that influenced behaviorism were John B. Watson, Ivan Pavlov, B.F. Skinner, Edward Thorndike, and Clark…

Leta Stetter Hollingworth Leta Stetter Hollingworth was a prominent figure in the study of the psychology of women and the field of educational psychology. Born to Johnnie and Margaret Stetter on May 25th, 1886, little baby Stetter was ever so loved by her mother Margaret. Her mother wrote in a baby book about the daily experiences the infant had through the point of view of baby Stetter. She wondered where her father, Johnnie, was because he had not come to visit her in the first eight days…

Operant Conditioning What is operant conditioning? Operant conditioning was first discovered and experimented by a American Psychologist B.F Skinner who was the one who experimented on operant conditioning.This means that the purpose of Operant conditioning is to find a way that a behavior can be controlled in a positive or negative way. There could even be some methods in where this condition can be controlled and even researchers have been able to prove these movements. Operant condition…

Standardized testing is a way to unjustly put a number on a child and judge them on such number. In school children remember information that they know will be tested on in which after the test they vomit out the information and forget it in order to study for the next test. It is also a thing that adds stress and can hurt children every year. This system of testing needs to be adjusted in order to measure the true skills of children. Many children every year are struggling with the thought of…

he found the dogs also salivated when assistants arrived with no food. They had come to almost “expect” food when they came. Their minds connected the food and the lab assistants together. With this, they came to react to both the exact same. Edward Thorndike advanced behaviorism by suggesting animal research can describe human behavior. However as behaviorism proved successful tensions between psychoanalytic and behaviorists. John Watson, who is known for introducing this school, agreed with…

Behaviorists believe that behaviour is the only thing that can be treated. Feelings or internal states cannot be treated. (Gordon, A.M., & Browne, K.W, 2011:112-115) Theorists like Ivan Pavlov, John B. Watson, Edward L. Thorndike, B.F. Skinner and Albert Bandura contributed to Behaviorist theories. In these theories, it is stated that there are three types of learning : classical conditioning (association learning), operant conditioning (reinforcement learning) and modeling…

In the teaching profession as an Integrated Science teacher, for the past six years, I must agree that students do learn differently. As teachers we must cater to their various learning styles or we will be faced with students who gets bored or those who stare at us in bewilderment and confusion over not being able to understand the lesson. If we consider this very important fact that not all our students are the same, then when planning and preparing as good teachers we will include…

It was highly influential and dominated psychological theory for some thirty years between the early 1920’s and 1950’s. The early formulation of behaviourist theory was in the work of an American psychologist John B Watson. In some respects, his research was a response to the prevailing psychoanalytic approaches to therapy at the time. In his work ‘Psychology from the Standpoint of a Behaviourist’ published in 1929, Watson believed that behaviourism, ‘Attempted to make a fresh, clean start in…

In The Sports Gene by David Epstein, there are multiple story lines followed and introduced, discussing some of the top athletes in the world. Almost every chapter in the book discusses the same question, “Is there a sports gene?”. Epstein provides great insight and detail in examining this question by explaining the findings in labs from all over the world, along with elaborating on the growth in athletic abilities over time. Through a review of the book, the question of whether there truly is…