Which of the following laws of Thorndike is nearer to Skinner's Operant Conditioning paradigm?
Law of effect
Thorndike’s law of effect links the strengthening of a response with its consequences. This anticipates Skinner’s operant conditioning, in which reinforcement increases future responding and punishment decreases it. The law of exercise concerns practice, while readiness concerns the learner’s preparedness.
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?
