When, instead of merely associating some act with some situation in the animal way, we think the situation out, we have a set of particular feelings of its elements.
The real difference between a man's scientific judgments about himself and the judgment of others about him is he has added sources of knowledge. - Edward Thorndike
The real difference between a man's scientific judgments about himself and the judgment of others about him is he has added sources of knowledge.
- Edward Thorndike
For origin and development of human faculty we must look to these processes of association in lower animals. - Edward Thorndike
For origin and development of human faculty we must look to these processes of association in lower animals.
When, instead of merely associating some act with some situation in the animal way, we think the situation out, we have a set of particular feelings … - Edward Thorndike
When, instead of merely associating some act with some situation in the animal way, we think the situation out, we have a set of particular feelings …
Just as the science and art of agriculture depend upon chemistry and botany, so the art of education depends upon physiology and psychology. - Edward Thorndike
Just as the science and art of agriculture depend upon chemistry and botany, so the art of education depends upon physiology and psychology.
Amongst the minds of animals that of man leads, not as a demigod from another planet, but as a king from the same race. - Edward Thorndike
Amongst the minds of animals that of man leads, not as a demigod from another planet, but as a king from the same race.
This growth in the number, speed of formation, permanence, delicacy and complexity of associations possible for an animal reaches its acme in the cas… - Edward Thorndike
This growth in the number, speed of formation, permanence, delicacy and complexity of associations possible for an animal reaches its acme in the cas…
Nowhere more truly than in his mental capacities is man a part of nature. - Edward Thorndike
Nowhere more truly than in his mental capacities is man a part of nature.
The intellectual evolution of the race consists in an increase in the number, delicacy, complexity, permanence and speed of formation of such associa… - Edward Thorndike
The intellectual evolution of the race consists in an increase in the number, delicacy, complexity, permanence and speed of formation of such associa…
So the animal finally performs in that situation only the fitting act. - Edward Thorndike
So the animal finally performs in that situation only the fitting act.
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