Thorndike Theory

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THORNDIKE’S CONNECTIONISM BY MARY F. MAPLES AND JOAN M. WEBSTER Principles: 1. The Laws of Readiness, Exercise, and Effect govern all processes in learning. 2. Learning can be categorized by four types: Connection-forming, connection-forming with ideas, analysis or abstraction, and selective thinking or reasoning. 3. All learning is incremental. 4. In learning there are certain states of affairs which the subject always welcomes and does nothing to avoid: Its satisfiers. 5. The intellect, character, and skill possessed by any person is the product of certain original tendencies and the training those tendencies have received. 6. Learning is extended by spread of effect. 7. All mammals learn in the same manner

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THORNDIKES CONNECTIONISM BY MARY F. MAPLES AND JOAN M. WEBSTERPrinciples:1. The Laws of Readiness, Exercise, and Effect govern all processes in learning.2. Learning can be categorized by four types: Connection-forming, connection-formingwith ideas, analysis or abstraction, and selective thinking or reasoning.3. All learning is incremental.4. In learning there are certain states of affairs which the subject always welcomes and doesnothing to avoid: Its satisfiers.5. The intellect, character, and skill possessed by any person is the product of certainoriginal tendencies and the training those tendencies have received.6. Learning is extended by spread of effect.7. All mammals learn in the same manner