1. EDWARD LEE THORNDIKE
Created by:
Mahmud hasan 11311004
Muh fatkhur rahman 113110
Aris lathifah 11311022
Nurul Miftakhul Jannah 11311008
2. Thorndike was born in
Williamsburg, Massachusetts, in
1874, and was the second son of a
Methodist minister.
His bibliography comprised 507
books, monographs, and journal
articles.
4. Thorndike developed a
methodology suitable not only
for experimental study of animal
learning but for much of animal
and human behavior as well.
5. MAJOR THEORETICAL CONCEPTS
• Connectionism
• Selecting and Connecting
• Learning Is Incremental, Not Insightful
• Learning Is Not Mediated By Ideas
• All Mammals Learn in the Same Manner
7. SECONDARY CONCEPTS BEFORE
1930
• Multiple Response
• Set or Attitude
• Prepotency of Elements
• Response by Analogy
• Associative shifting
8. THORNDIKE AFTER 1930
• Revised Law of Exercise
• Revised law of effect
• Belongingness
• Spread of Effect
9. SCIENCE AND HUMAN
VALUES
Thorndike was a very colorful person who
expressed opinions on a wide variety of topics.
His thoughts on the learning process and his
views concerning the relationship between the
learning process and educational practices.
10. THORNDIKE ON EDUCATION
Thorndike believed that educational
practices should be studied
scientifically.
as more was discovered about the
nature of learning more could be
applied to improve teaching
practices.