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When the cat did this and learned which pedal to push to get the food what term did Thorndike give to the process?
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Thorndike used a puzzle box to study the behavioral responses of cats. When the cats learned which pedal to push to get the food, he called this the law of effect. It is a form of trial-and-error learning.
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When Thorndike was doing research with cats he placed them in a box To get out and obtain food the cat had to pull the correct chain or step on the correct pedal When the cat did this and learned?
Instrumental conditioning because pushing the correct pedal was instrumental in producing the reward.
What is instrumental conditioning?
•Around the same time as Pavlov worked in Russia,E.L.Thorndike in the US was working on cats, dogs and chicks to understand the learning process.•He differed in one major way from Pavlov.•Thorndike placed his animals in a "puzzle box" from which they were required to escape, by manipulating the correct lever or pulley, in order to obtain food reward.•Through the process of trial and error, Thorndike's animals eventually "learned".•Since the ANIMAL'S BEHAVIOR WERE INSTRUMENTAL in escaping from the box and in obtaining food, the paradigm was labeled "Instrumental Conditioning".•For Thorndike, response was more important for learning than the stimulus.•His theory can , therefore, be called RESPONSE GENERALIZATION THEORY.
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