Father of educational psychology Law of effect Behavior modification
Spouse
Elizabeth Moulton
(m. 1900)
Children
4, including Frances
Academic background
Education
Wesleyan University (BS) Harvard University (MA) Columbia University (PhD)
Doctoral advisor
James McKeen Cattell
Other advisors
William James
Academic work
Institutions
Columbia University
Doctoral students
Walter V. Bingham William S. Gray Alan S. Kaufman Laurance F. Shaffer Knight Dunlap Truman Lee Kelley Percival Symonds Leta Stetter Hollingworth Irving Lorge Tsuruko Haraguchi
Edward Lee Thorndike (August 31, 1874 – August 9, 1949) was an American psychologist who spent nearly his entire career at Teachers College, Columbia University. His work on comparative psychology and the learning process led to the theory of connectionism and helped lay the scientific foundation for educational psychology. He also worked on solving industrial problems, such as employee exams and testing.
Thorndike was a member of the board of the Psychological Corporation and served as president of the American Psychological Association in 1912.[1][2] A Review of General Psychology survey, published in 2002, ranked Thorndike as the ninth-most cited psychologist of the 20th century.[3] Edward Thorndike had a powerful impact on reinforcement theory and behavior analysis, providing the basic framework for empirical laws in behavior psychology with his law of effect. Through his contributions to the behavioral psychology field came his major impacts on education, where the law of effect has great influence in the classroom.
^Saettler, 2004, pp. 52–56
^Zimmerman, Barry J.; Schunk, Dale H. (2003), Educational Psychology: A Century of Contributions, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, ISBN 978-0-8058-3682-0
^Haggbloom, Steven J.; Warnick, Renee; Warnick, Jason E.; Jones, Vinessa K.; Yarbrough, Gary L.; Russell, Tenea M.; Borecky, Chris M.; McGahhey, Reagan; et al. (2002). "The 100 most eminent psychologists of the 20th century". Review of General Psychology. 6 (2): 139–152. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.586.1913. doi:10.1037/1089-2680.6.2.139. S2CID 145668721.
Edward Lee Thorndike (August 31, 1874 – August 9, 1949) was an American psychologist who spent nearly his entire career at Teachers College, Columbia University...
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recorded his discoveries as learning curves and forgetting curves. EdwardThorndike (1874–1949) presented his theory of the "Law of Effect" in 1898. According...
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sum of all objective circumstances at hand. The term was coined by EdwardThorndike. A simplified example of the halo effect is a person, after noticing...
additional insight into what makes people learn most effectively. EdwardThorndike developed the first three "Laws of learning": readiness, exercise,...
from earlier research in the late nineteenth century, such as when EdwardThorndike pioneered the law of effect, a procedure that involved the use of consequences...
Connectionism (coined by EdwardThorndike in the 1931) is the name of an approach to the study of human mental processes and cognition that utilizes mathematical...
lists and concepts of definition developed by psychological theorist EdwardThorndike. Barnhart subsequently revised and expanded the series and with the...
clergyman, Edward R. Thorndike, and the younger brother of Ashley Horace Thorndike, an American educator and expert on William Shakespeare, and Edward Lee Thorndike...
frames. The Kennedy–Thorndike experiment was designed to do that, and was first performed in 1932 by Roy Kennedy and EdwardThorndike. They obtained a null...
strengthen reasoning and memory faculties. Disputing formal discipline, EdwardThorndike and Robert S. Woodworth in 1901 postulated that the transfer of learning...
behavior analysis". The preceding behaviorisms of Ivan P. Pavlov, Edward L. Thorndike, John B. Watson, B. F. Skinner, and Clark L. Hull studied the basic...
Hoffmann (1988), p. 44. Hoffmann (1988), p. 45. Berger (1983), p. 42. Edward Hoffman (2008). "Abraham Maslow: a biographer's reflections". Journal of...
other openly eugenic psychologists and education scholars such as EdwardThorndike, Leta Hollingworth, Carl Brigham, and H. H. Goddard contributed to...
Esperanto, volume I, p.436, on the pedagogic value of Esperanto. Report: EdwardThorndike, Language Learning. Bureau of Publications of Teachers College, 1933...
definitions for the Thorndike-Barnhart graded dictionary series for children, based on the educational works of EdwardThorndike whom Clarence Barnhart...
of their lives. The original definition of social intelligence (by EdwardThorndike in 1920) is "the ability to understand and manage men and women and...
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