Thorndike's Legacy: Learning, Selection, And The Law Of Effect.
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This introduction to a symposium on the centennial of Edward L. Thorndike’s 1898 monograph on animal intelligence briefly considers the origins of his law of effect and the influence of Darwin’s selectionism. It also provides the background for an unfinished book review by William W. Cumming of a biography of Thorndike. The review places in historical context Thorndike’s position both on psychology as a science of behavior and on the vocabulary of that science.
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عنوان ژورنال:
- Journal of the experimental analysis of behavior
دوره 72 3 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 1999