Trial and Error Learning - E.L. Thorndike

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Trial and Error Learning

E.L. Thorndike ( 1874 - 1949 )
American Psychologist
Father of Educational Psychology

Learning is the result of associations between stimuli and response.

Cat experiment

Subject - cat
Stimulus- Fish
Motivation-smell
Drive- Hunger

Laws of Learning

Primary Laws (3)
Secondary Laws (8)

Primary Laws

Law of Effect
Law of Readiness
Law of Exercise

Secondary Laws

Law of Primacy
Law of Recency
Law of Intensity and Stimulus
Law of Multiple Response
Law of Set or Attitude
Law of Analogy and Assimilation
Law of Associative Shifting
Law of Partial Activity





Questions

' Law of Readiness ' related to Learning theory was proposed by :

1. Ausubel
2. Skinner
3. Thorndike
4. Pavlov





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