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Thorndike
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Ideology
Behaviorism
The movement that tried to make psychology a science of observable behavior alone, ruling the mind out of its own subject matter until the mind forced its way back in.
12 min
Thought experimentOperant Conditioning
Behavior that is rewarded tends to recur, behavior that is punished or ignored tends to fade, and Skinner built a whole science out of that one fact.
9 min