Exam 4: Edward Lee Thorndike

The current emphasis on____ in our primary and secondary schools suggests that the mental muscle approach to education is still widely accepted.

Thorndike's theory can be considered the original _____theory of learning.

Thorndike attempted to answer the question as to how a positive effect can work back in time to strengthen a connection by postulating the existence of a(n):

"Forcing children to reason out very difficult problems will cause their capacity to reason to develop more fully." This statement characterizes:

Thorndike concluded that learning was:

According to Thorndike's concept of belongingness:

For Thorndike, a reinforcer is a stimulus that produces:

Morgan issued his "Canon" as a guard against:

The law that states that the effect of a reinforcer is to strengthen the association between the preceding stimuli and the response is called the Law of:

Thorndike defined "satisfying state of affairs" as:

Which of the following determines what will satisfy or annoy the organism?

For Thorndike, between the stimulus and the response there was:

Which of the following best describes how Thorndike revised his Law of Exercise after 1930.He salvaged:

Thorndike's law that states that a connection is weakened or strengthened as a result of its consequences is the:

Thorndike's concept of multiple response essentially means that:

"Learned responses are most easily given in the direction in which they were learned." This statement describes Thorndike's principle of:

With his principle of belongingness, Thorndike indicated that:

Trial and error learning is possible because of which of the following principles?

Thorndike's animal research was:

According to Thorndike, reinforcement for correct responses: