PSYCH 2B03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Edward Thorndike, Connectionism, Formal System
21 Feb 2017
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The plan: to revise edwin guthrie (from last week, to learn about edward l. thorndike"s connectionism, to understand clark hull"s hypothetic-deductive system, end with educational implications based on thorndike and hull"s theories/models. Edward lee thorndike 1874-1949: earned his phd in psychology at columbia. University: he tried to establish, through experimentation, that animals learn through a gradual process of trial and error that eventually leads to. Stamping in of the correct response: thorndike wrote extensively, publishing more than 78 books and in excess of 400 articles, served as president of the american. Puzzle boxes and animal intelligence: subsequently, a connection is formed between the response and the situation, this connection is learned, or stamped in as. Reinforcement or contiguity: how does the stamping in occur, learning theories that look at the formation of connections of associations (conditioning theories), typically rely on one or two different explanations for learning: contiguity or reinforcement.
