... the box, there was no improvement. He fell back on a much simpler trial and error explanation of learning. He realised that when the animal performed the actions that opened the box they were more likely to perform the same action when put back in the box. The behaviourist position ... that human behaviour could be explained completely in terms of reflexes, stimulus-response (SR) associations and the effect of reinforcers upon them entirely excluding "mental" terms like desires and goals was taken up by John Watson ... essentially rejected Thorndike's law of effect stating all that wa...

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... laws of learning were crucial and as there was only a small difference between animals and humans. However the animals were not physically harmed. An example of such an experiment would be Edward Thorndike's, whom also created the "law of effect". He said that "actions that are rewarded are repeated ... what is important to us and makes us "complete". Through this we would strive to get the same again and repeat those actions. An example of this would be when a teenager goes out on a date for the first time, if he/she enjoyed the date then it is ... methods. Ivan Pavlov discovered a lea...

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