Arrange the following publications on learning in chronological order of first publication:
A. Thorndike’s Animal Intelligence: An Experimental Study of the Associative Processes in Animals
B. Pavlov’s Conditioned Reflexes (English translation)
C. Tolman’s Purposive Behavior in Animals and Men
D. Skinner’s The Behavior of Organisms
A, B, C, D
The specified publications appeared in 1898, 1927, 1932 and 1938 respectively. Thus A, B, C, D is correct. Publication dates provide an explicit criterion; broad theoretical traditions overlap and cannot be assigned a simple universal succession.
Important Questions from Principles and theories of learning - Teaching
Who of the following developed the concept of Behaviour shaping through the use of principle of successive approximation?
Strengths of "Behaviourism" as learning theory are:
(a) It provides clear predictions
(b) It has real life application
(c) It is too deterministic
(d) It has reductionist approach
(e) It emphasizes objective measurement
Choose the answer from the following options:
Which of the following subordinate laws in Thorndike's Theory of learning is equivalent to Watson or Pavlov's Classical Conditioning Theory?
In Hull’s ‘re-inforcement theory’ which of the following was postulated as intervening variable ?
Which philosopher is most closely associated with the view that the mind begins as a blank slate and gains ideas through experience?
