People

Question 1

Ivan Pavlov

Answer 1

Russian physiologist who observed conditioned salivary responses in dogs (1849-1936)

Question 2

John B Watson

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behaviorist; famous for Little Albert study in which a baby was taught to fear a white rat

Question 3

BF Skinner

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he is famous for use of his operant conditioning apparatus which he used to study schedules of reinforcement on pigeons and rats.

Question 4

Edward Thorndlike

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coined the law of effect. Tested his research with rewards for cats to escape a puzzle box.

Question 5

John Garcia

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Researched taste aversion. Showed that when rats ate a novel substance before being nauseated by a drug or radiation, they developed a conditioned taste aversion for the substance.

Question 6

Robert Rescorla

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psychologist that studied the Contingency Theory (learning only occurs if the stimulus provides the subject with information about how likely it is that certain events will occur)

Question 7

Edward Tolman

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was a Cognitive Behaviorist who believed that animals had the ability to learn things that they could use later in a variety of ways (latent learning)

Question 8

Albert Bandura

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researcher famous for work in observational or social learning including the famous Bobo doll experiment