Edward Thorndike - B.F. Skinner

Edward Thorndike

1. Explain Thorndike's puzzle-box experiment.
- Thorndike had a cat put in a trap box he himself constructed. In order to open it, the cat put inside the box was required to open a hatch and also to move a wire with its nose, and after they could reach. Thorndike discovered that the more times he put the cat inside the box, the faster the cats got out of the box. With this he theorized his law of effect.

2. Explain Thorndike's "Law of Effect".
-After doing the puzzle-box experiment, Thorndike theorized that  when someone or something recieves a satisfying result after doing something, then he would do that thing again in order to recieve the result again.

3. Explain Thorndike's "Law of Exercise".
- The law states that when someone or something does something, and continues to do so, he/she/it will become better at doing it because of repetition.