experiments of learning

• B.F. Skinner: behavioralism; internal factors couldn't be used to explain behavior; used pigeons and rats in his expirements
• Skinner box: apparatus that allowed him to control the environment of an animal, including food delivery and shock
• Edward L. Thorndike: law of effect- rewarded behavior is likely to reoccur
• Garcia and Robert Koelling: researched the effects of radiation on laboratory animals; taste aversion
• Robert Rescorla & Allan Wagner: showed that animals can learn the predictability of an event; an awareness of how likely it is that the U.S will occur
• Martin Seligman: experimented with dogs that were strapped into a harness and given no opportunity to avoid it; learned helplessness; perceiving loss of control, we become more vulnerable to stress and ill health
• Julian Rotter: external and internal locus of control
• Albert Bandura: Bobo doll experiment; observational learning in young kids; mirror neurons