Animal Intelligence¶
Thorndike, E. L. (1898). Animal Intelligence: An Experimental Study of the Associative Processes in Animals. Psychological Review Monograph Supplements, 2(4), 1-109.
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- Conditioning (Behavioral)
This sourceFounding experimental study of trial-and-error learning in cats; the law of effect formalizes durable, consequence-dependent behavioral change. 1037/h0092987).
- Learning
- The essential commitment is a durable, experience-driven self-update of an agent's internal state that carries forward to alter later behavior, distinguishing it from a one-off response that leaves the agent unchanged — a durability requirement Thorndike (1898) established in his law-of-effect work and that Ebbinghaus (1885) made quantitatively precise through his retention curves.
This sourceFounding experimental study of trial-and-error learning in cats; the law of effect formalizes durable experience-driven behavioral updates as a function of consequence — the earliest quantitative grounding for the durability commitment that separates learning from one-off responding.
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Thorndike shows learned associations persisting over days to weeks and stresses that associations without permanence would be useless; he does not use the label law of effect or mention Ebbinghaus.
“traces of the connections once formed are very slow in being lost”
- The essential commitment is a durable, experience-driven self-update of an agent's internal state that carries forward to alter later behavior, distinguishing it from a one-off response that leaves the agent unchanged — a durability requirement Thorndike (1898) established in his law-of-effect work and that Ebbinghaus (1885) made quantitatively precise through his retention curves.
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