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  • One of Thorndike's projects focused on the problem solving abilities of housecats.

    Animal Cognition Andrews, Kristin 2008

  • Many of us who are Anglicans will have a suspicion that our wait for a restoration will be longer than Thorndike's.

    Archive 2008-04-01 Burke's Corner 2008

  • I did spend considerable time years ago reading Morton W. Bloomfield's "The Seven Deadly Sins," and of course I have Thorndike's "History of Science and Experimental Magic" and other delightful reference works to aid me in working with vain thoughts and efforts.

    Return to the Range 2008

  • Many of us who are Anglicans will have a suspicion that our wait for a restoration will be longer than Thorndike's.

    Goodbye to Anglicanism? Burke's Corner 2008

  • On his work, see Lynn Thorndike's A History of Magic and Experimental Science (New York, 1923 — 58), 2: 401 — 35, and G. Se Boyar, "Bartholomaeus Anglicus and his Encyclopedia," Journal of English and Germanic Philology 19 (1920): 168 — 89.

    A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries 2005

  • It was easy for the psychologist in me to imagine him inside one of Thorndike's puzzle boxes, tripping levers and pushing pedals randomly and then intelligently to get the reward.

    Archive 2006-10-01 Field Notes 2006

  • It was easy for the psychologist in me to imagine him inside one of Thorndike's puzzle boxes, tripping levers and pushing pedals randomly and then intelligently to get the reward.

    iPod to TV connection Field Notes 2006

  • In his theory of learning he rejected Thorndike's law of effect be - cause the concept of “satisfaction” was mentalistic.

    BEHAVIORISM R. S. PETERS 1968

  • Many have commented on the simi - larity between this concept and that of Thorndike's

    BEHAVIORISM R. S. PETERS 1968

  • Thorndike's law of effect concerns acts, not movements.

    BEHAVIORISM R. S. PETERS 1968

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