PSYC 2P45 Midterm: PSYCH2P45 MIDTERMTWO

• School: Brock University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2P45
• Professor: Tim Murphy

Document Summary

Founder of psychology and the first to write a textbook about psychology. Wanted to be an artist but was not accepted by his farther so he became a psychologist which his father hated more. Soft determinism: there are some things you can"t change. First law of learning, resembles skinner"s law a bit. The puzzle box is the laboratory device that e. l. thorndike invented in order to study instrumental or operant conditioning in cats. Hungry cats were individually placed into a box that could be opened by the animal via a device such as a latch. Focused more on the stimulus response, while skinner focused more on the outcome. The law of effect is a psychological principle advanced by edward thorndike in. Rats are placed in a start box of a straight-alley runway. If they run down the runway they will find a goal box that may contain food reinforcement.