Edward Thorndike
1) He put cats in a puzzle box and closed it. The cats were timed as they tried to find an escape. To get out, they had to open the door by pulling a small lever that they had to find. As they got out they found a bowl of food. He discovered that once he put them back in the box, the cats could find their way out easier and their time in the box decreased, because they memorized their path and learned how to open the door faster after repeated tries.
2) Law Of Effect: It states that if an action produces a statisfying effect, then the individual will most likely want to do it again to obtain the same result, but if it turns out negatively, they will try to avoid doing it again.
Wikipedia. Law Of Effect. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_effect. December 1, 2010.
3) Law Of Excercise: This law states that if a stimulus is presented closely in time to a response, then one will learn to react to that stimulus in a matter of time.
Answers.com. Law Of Exercise.http://www.answers.com/topic/law-of-exercise. December 1, 2010.
B.F. Skinner:
1) Operant Conditioning:reinforcement and punishment change our behavioral tendencies.
2) Reinforcement always teaches us to do a certain behavior because we like the outcome.
3) Punishment always teahces us to stop a behavior because we don't like the outcome of what we do.
4) Negative reinforcement: something is taken away to reward a behavior. This means that we will keep doing it to keep having things we sont like removed.
Positive reinforcement: something is given to us so we will want it when we do that behavior again.
