The Laws of Voluntary Response: Edward Thonrdike

From the textbook "Saundra K. Ciccarelli and J. Noland White's Third Edition of Psychology", Thorndike was one of the first researchers to explore and outline the spontaneous reaction law. Experiment with hungry cats and try out the law. He places the cat in the "puzzle box" and only the lever that comes out of the box escapes, but Songndike also uses the food from the box as a force. The cat ran away from the box.

B. F. Skinner is known for his landmark research in the field of learning and behavior. He proposed a theory that studies complicated human behavior through voluntary reactions of graduate students placed in a specific environment. He named these behaviors or reactions as operability. He is also known as the father of Operator Conditioning Learning, but his theory is based on the famous "effect law" discovered by Edward Thorndike in 1905. As the first step in his experiment, he put a hungry mouse in the Skinner box. The mouse initially did not move in the box, but began exploring when it began to adapt to the environment of the box. Finally, pressing the mouse found a lever and the food was released into the box. After it filled with hunger, it became hungry again so after a while it pushed the lever again and began exploring the box again

Edward Lee Thorndike is an American psychologist, and research in its animal's behavior and learning process has resulted in "law of effect". According to the rule of effect, the reaction which produces a satisfactory effect tends to occur again, and the reaction which produces an unpleasant effect hardly occurs. The term "operating conditions" built by psychologist B. F. Skinner represents a form of learning in which a spontaneous response is strengthened or weakened by their association with a positive or negative result. Enhance the response by strengthening. Skinner describes two types of reinforcement: introducing positive results like food, pleasant activities or other people's attention aggressive strengthening and get rid of negative consequences such as pain and big noise Negative enhancement.