E. L. Thorndike’s Enduring Contributions to Educational Psychology

Educational Psychology: A Century of Contributions: A project of Division 15 (Educational Psychology) of the American Psychological Association

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 113-154

  Mayer, Richard E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 85063562090     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9781315734255-6     Document Type: Chapter

References (79)

1. Anderson, L. W., Krathwohl, D. R., Airasian, P. W., Cruikshank, K., Mayer, R. E” Pintrich, P. R” and Raths, J. (2001). A taxonomy of learning for teaching: A revision of Bloom’s taxonomy of educational objectives. New York: Addison-Wesley-Longman.
2. Barnhart, C. L. (1949). Contributions of Dr. Thorndike to lexicography. Teachers College Record, 51, 35-42.
3. Beatty, B. (1998). From laws of learning to a science of values: Efficiency and morality in Thorndike’s educational psychology. American Psychologist, 53, 1145-1152.
4. Bitterman, M. E. (1969). Thorndike and the problem of animal intelligence. American Psychologist, 24, 444-453.
5. Boldyreff, J. W. (1949). Psychology and the social order. Teachers College Record, 51, 762-777.
6. Bower, G. H., and Hilgard, E. R. (1981). Thorndike’s connectionism. In G. H. Bower and E. R. Hilgard, Theories of learning (5th ed, pp. 21-48). Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall.
7. Bulatao, E. Q., Fulcher, R., and Evans, R. B. (1992). Statistical data on the American Psychological Association. In R. B.Evans, V. S. Sexton, andT.C. Cadwallader (Eds.), The American Psychological Association: A historical perspective (pp. 391-394). Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.
8. Burnham, J. C. (1972). Thorndike’s puzzle boxes. Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences, 8, 159-167.
9. Brown, J. E, andFeder, D. D. (1934). Thorndike’s theory of learning as Gestalt psychology. Psychological Bulletin, 31, 426-437.
10. Chi, M. T. H., Glaser, R., and Farr, M. J. (Eds.). (1988). The nature of expertise. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
11. Detterman, D. K., and Sternberg, S. J. (Eds.). (1993). Transfer on trial. Norwood, NJ: Ablex.
12. Dewsbury, D. A. (1998). Celebrating E. L. Thorndike a century after Animal Intelligence. American Psychologist, 53, 1121-1124.
13. Eisner, E. (1997, August-September). The promise and perils of alternate forms of data representation. Educational Researcher, 26(6), 4-20.
14. Galef, B. G. (1998). Edward Thorndike: Revolutionary psychologist, ambiguous biologist. American Psychologist, 53, 1128-1134.
15. Galton, F. (1883). Inquiry into human faculty and its development. London: Macmillan.
16. Gates, A. I. (1934). Edward Lee Thorndike: President-elect of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Science, 79, 88-89.
17. Gates, A. I. (1949a). Edward L. Thorndike 1874-1949. Psychological Review, 56, 241-243.
18. Gates, A. I. (1949b). The writings of Edward L. Thorndike. Teachers College Record, 51, 20-31.
19. Grinder, R. E. (1989). Educational psychology: The master science. In M. C. Wittrock and F. Farley (Eds.), The future of educational psychology. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
20. Goodenough, F. L. (1950). Edward Lee Thorndike: 1874-1949. American Journal of Psychology, 63, 291-301.
21. Hull, C. L. (1943). Principles of behavior. New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts.
22. Humphrey, G. (1949). Edward Lee Thorndike, 1874-1949. British Journal of Psychology, 40, 55-56.
23. Jensen, A. R. (1987). Individual differences in mental ability. In J. A. Glover and R. R. Ronning (Eds.), Historical foundations of educational psychology (pp. 61-88). New York: Plenum.
24. Joncich, G. (1962). Science: Touchstone for a new age in education. In G. M. Joncich (Ed.), Psychology and the science of education: Selected writings of Edward L. Thorndike (pp. 1-26). New York: Teachers College Press.
25. Joncich, G. (1966). Complex forces and neglected acknowledgments in the making of a young psychologist. Edward L. Thorndike and his teachers. Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences, 2, 43-50.
26. Joncich, G. (1968a). The sane positivist: A biography of Edward L. Thorndike. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press.
27. Joncich, G. (1968b). E. L. Thorndike: The psychologist as professional man of science. American Psychologist, 23, 434-446.
28. Judd, C. H. (1908). The relation of special training and general intelligence. Educational Review, 36, 28-42.
29. Katona, G. (1940). Organizing and memorizing. New York: Columbia University.
30. Kuhn, T. S. (1970). The structure of scientific revolutions. Chicago: Chicago University Press.
31. Leary, D. E. (Ed.). (1990). Metaphors in the history of psychology. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
32. Lepper, M. R., and Greene, D. (1978). The hidden costs of reward, Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
33. Lorge, I. (1940). Thorndike’s contribution to the psychology of learning of adults. Teachers College Record, 41, 778-788.
34. Lorge, I. (1949). Edward L. Thorndike’s publications from 1940 to 1949. Teachers College Record, 51, 42-45.
35. May, M. A. (1949). Selected writings from a connectionist’s psychology. Teachers College Record, 51, 31-34.
36. Mayer, R. E. (1987). Educational psychology: A cognitive approach. New York: HarperCollins.
37. Mayer, R. E. (1992). Cognition and instruction: On their historical meeting within educational psychology. Journal of Educational Psychology, 84, 405-412.
38. Mayer, R. E. (1995). The search for insight: Grappling with Gestalt psychology’s unanswered questions. In R. J. Sternberg and J. E. Davidson (Eds.), The nature of insight (pp. 3-32). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
39. Mayer, R. E. (1996). Learners as information processors: Legacies and limitations of educational psychology’s second metaphor. Educational Psychologist, 31, 151-162.
40. Mayer, R. E., and Wittrock, M. C. (1996). Problem-solving transfer. In D. C. Berliner and R. C. Calfee (Eds.), Handbook of educational psychology (pp. 47-62). New York: Macmillan.
41. McKeough, A., Lupart, J., and Marini, A. (Eds.). (1995). Teaching for transfer. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
42. Meiklejohn, A. (1908). Is mental training a myth? Educational Review, 37, 126-141.
43. Moehhnan, A. B. (1944). Edward Lee Thorndike, master teacher. Nation’s Schools, 34, 19.
44. Otto, W. (1971). Thorndike’s reading as reasoning: Influence and impact. Reading Research Quarterly, 6, 435-442.
45. Postman, L. (1962). Rewards and punishments in human learning. In L. Postman (Ed.), Psychology in the making (pp. 331-401). New York: Knopf.
46. Rippa, S. A. (1980). Education in a free society. New York: Longman.
47. Rock, R. T., Jr. (1940). Thorndike’s contribution to the psychology of learning. Teachers College Record, 41, 751-761.
48. Romanes, G. J. (1882). Animal intelligence. New York: Appleton.
49. Russell, J. E. (1940). An appreciation of E. L. Thorndike. Teachers College Record, 41, 696-698.
50. Russell, W. F. (1949). Edward L. Thorndike, 1874-1949. Teachers College Record, 51, 26-28.
51. Singley, M. K., and Anderson, J. A. (1989). The transfer of cognitive skill. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
52. Skinner, B. F. (1938). The behavior of organisms. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall.
53. Spearman, C. (1927). The abilities of man. New York: Macmillan.
54. Stam, H. J., and Kalmanovitch, T. (1998). E. L. Thorndike and the origins of animal psychology. American Psychologist, 53, 1135-1144.
55. Stauffer, R. G. (1971). Thorndike’s reading as reasoning: A perspective. Reading Research Quarterly, 6, 443-448.
56. Sternberg, R. J. (1990). Metaphors of mind. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press.
57. Sully, J. (1889). Outlines of psychology. New York: Appleton.
58. Teachers College Record. (1940). Publications from 1898 to 1940 by E. L. Thorndike. Teachers College Record, 41, 699-725.
59. Thompson, G. (1949). Obituary: Prof. Edward L. Thorndike. Nature, 164, 474.
60. Thorndike, E. L. (1898). Animal intelligence: An experimental study of the associative processes in animals. Psychological Monographs, 2(4, Whole No. 8).
61. Thorndike, E. L. (1903). Educational psychology. New York: Lemcke and Buechner.
62. Thorndike, E. L. (1906). Principles of teaching based on psychology. New York: Seiler.
63. Thorndike, E. L. (1910). The contribution of psychology to education. Journal of Educational Psychology, 1, 5-12.
64. Thorndike, E. L. (1911). Animal intelligence. New York: Macmillan.
65. Thorndike, E. L. (1913). Educational psychology. Volume II: The learning process. New York: Teachers College Press.
66. Thorndike, E. L. (1917). Reading as reasoning: A study of mistakes in paragraph reading. Journal of Educational Psychology, 8, 323-332.
67. Thorndike, E. L. (1918). The nature, purposes, and general methods of measurement of educational products. National Society for the Study of Education Yearbook 17(2), 16-24.
68. Thorndike, E. L., Bregman, E. D., Cobb, M. V., and Woodyard, E. I. (1926). The measurement of intelligence. New York: Teachers College, Columbia University.
69. Thorndike, E. L. (1932). Fundamentals of learning. New York: Teachers College, Columbia University.
70. Thorndike, E. L. (1935). Thorndike-Century Junior Dictionary. Chicago: Scott, Foresman.
71. Thorndike, E. L. (1936). Edward Lee Thorndike. In C. Murchison (Ed.), A history of psychology in autobiography (Vol. 3, pp. 263-270). Worcester, MA: Clark University Press.
72. Thorndike, E. L. (1948). On methods of memorizing poems and vocabularies. Journal of Educational Psychology, 39, 488-490.
73. Thorndike, E. L., and Woodworth, R. S. (1901). The influence of improvement in one mental function upon the efficiency of other functions. Psychological Review, 8, 247-261.
74. Thorndike, R. L. (1991). Edward L. Thorndike: A professional and personal appreciation. In G. A. Kimble, M. Wertheimer, and C. White (Eds.), Portraits of pioneers in psychology (Vol. 1, pp. 139-151). Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.
75. Tolman, E. C. (1932). Purposive behavior in animals and men. New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts.
76. Tolman, E.C. (1938). The determiners of behavior at a choice point. Psychological Review, 45, 1-41.
77. Wertheimer, M. (1959). Productive thinking. New York: Harper and Row.
78. Williams, J. (1978). Analysis of the Journal of Educational Psychology: Toward a definition of educational psychology. Educational Psychologist, 12, 290-296.
79. Woodworth, R. S. (1934). Edward Lee Thorndike: President of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Scientific Monthly, 38, 187-189.