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2 unusual facts about Edwin Ray Guthrie


Edwin Ray Guthrie

Guthrie’s theories went against those of Watson’s classical conditioning and Skinner’s operant conditioning due mainly to Guthrie’s insistence that their “desire for results of immediate practical applications” led to their theories being wrong.

Guthrie also had theories as to how punishment worked that were at odds with the likes of Thorndike and other learning theorists of his own time.



see also

Edgar A. Singer, Jr.

His pupils included Henry Bradford Smith, Edwin Ray Guthrie Jr., C. West Churchman, Russell L. Ackoff and Gordon Clark.