Edward Thorndike Observed Cats Learning to Escape from Boxes to Obtain

question 7

Multiple Choice

Edward Thorndike observed cats learning to escape from boxes to obtain a piece of fish and derived from these observations the "law of effect." This was an early statement of

• A) classical conditioning.
• B) operant conditioning.
• C) shaping.
• D) stimulus generalization.

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