Unit 4 Important People

Question 1

B.F. Skinner

Answer 1

Modern behaviorism’s most influential and controversial figure

Question 2

Edward L. Thorndike

Answer 2

Created the law of effect (good consequences increase behaviors, while bad ones decrease behaviors)

Question 3

John Garcia

Answer 3

Challenged the idea that all associations can be learned equally well, a previously widely accepted notion

Question 4

Robert Rescorla

Answer 4

Showed that animals can learn the predictability of an event

(ex: if a shock is always preceded by a tone and sometimes preceded by a light as well, a rat will learn to fear the tone but not the light, because the tone is a better indicator of the shock)

Question 5

Edward Chase Tolman

Answer 5

Performed classic studies on rats in mazes, which suggested they experienced latent learning

Question 6

Albert Bandura

Answer 6

The pioneering researcher of observational learning