PS234 People to know exam 1

Bower

One step model of learning (insight)

Mathematical psychologist, gestalt

Ebbinghaus

Forgetting curve, strains of letters

Experimental psychology

James

Rules of mind, Experience links

Tolman

Cognitive map, latent learning

behaviorist

Darwin

Evolution, natural selection

Nativist

Descartes

Dualism, body brain as machine

I think therefore I am

Miller

Magic number 7 (7+/- 2), Number sets 

Digit span

Skinner

Operant conditioning, ABC - Antecedent, Behavior, Consequence 

Behaviorist

Hull

Math, single trial, Stimulus Response learning

Drive Reduction Hypothesis - roposes that motivation arises from biological needs (like hunger, thirst) creating uncomfortable internal tension (drives)

Thorndike

Law of effect, instrumental conditioning = operant conditioning

Aristotle

CSF - contiguity, similarity, frequency

Associationist

Bandura

Observational learning, Bobo dolls

Estes

Stimulus sampling - over many learning trials most elements of a stimulus would be associated with a response 

Pavlov

classical conditioning

Rumelhart

Connectionism, Nodes

Information is coded as an activation pattern distributed across many different nodes called distributed representations

Locke

Tabula rosa - blank slate

Born knowing nothing, we learn through experience

Watson

“Little albert”, classical conditioning in humans

Plato

innate differences