THEORIES OF LEARNING CHAPTER 4 – EDWARD THORNDIKE

Condition organism actively avoids or abandons

Attributing human characteristics to non human organisms

Response is carried from one set of stimulating condition to another by adding and subtracting stimulus.Based on Principle of Contiguity

Material is learned more readily when it is structured in certain ways.

Reaction stimulated when a reaction produces a satisfying state of affairs

Learning involving the strengthening of connections between stimulating conditions and responses to them

Specific training can strengthen a specific facultyExample, practicing being friendly would strengthen the friendless faculty

It is a theory that the likelihood of something learned in one situation being applied in a different situation is determined by the number of common elements in the two situations

Learning that occurs a little bit at a time rather than all at once

It states that the strength of her connection diminishes when the connection is not used

This law states that the strength of the connection is influenced by the consequences of a response

It states that the strength of the connection is determined by how often the connection is used

It states that when an organism is ready to act, it is satisfying for it to do so and annoying for it to not do so.

Forced action is also annoying.

This states that the strength of connection increases with its use

He is an early comparative psychologist who attempted to be objective in his descriptions of animal behavior by carefully avoiding anthropomorphizing

The observation that learning materials is most easily performed in the same direction in which it was originally learned

Response to an unfamiliar situation is determined by its degree of similarity to a familiar situation

A condition of an organism seeks out and attempts to preserve

The trying of different responses in a problem solving situation until a response that solves the problems found

The first woman to earn a PhD in Psychology she wrote about Consciousness in non-human animals

Rule that animal researchers should never explain animal behavior as resulting from a higher mental process if that behavior could be explained by a lower process such as Instinct habit or Association

Prerequisite to trial and error learning

Different aspects of the environment evoke different responses

To sing the simpler Fury between two equally effective theories

he is an early comparative psychologist, anthropomorphizing

Temporary conditions like food fatigue or emotion that determines what will be annoying or pleasurable to a given organism

Reinforcement not only strengthens the response that produced it also strengthens neighboring responses

Equated with response probability

When something learned in one situation is supplied in another situation