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EverNotes from a Radical Behaviorist: Thorndike’s Contributions to Psychology Today: The Obvious and the Not-So-Obvious. Michael Palmer (Central Michigan University)

DateFriday, March 21, 2014 at 2:36PM
  1. RWM: Should Thorndike rather than Skinner get the credit for discovering or being the first to analyze operant conditioning?
    1. Michael: No, because he talks in terms of annoyers and satisfiers.
    2. RWM: I kind of like annoyers and satisfiers! Kind of.
  2. One of the first to do research with animals.
  3. Argued that thoughts don’t cause behavior.
    1. RWM: As Skinner did later in proposing radical behaviorism.

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