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Also Known As Edward Lee Thorndike
Born August 31, 1874 • Massachusetts
Died August 9, 1949 (aged 74) • New York
Subjects Of Study Thorndike’s law of effect • Thorndike’s law of exercise • connectionism • human intelligence • statistics • social science
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