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Studied observational learning
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| Breland, K. and Breland, M. |
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Discoverd and studied instinctual drift.
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Proposed a theory of evolution with natural selection as its centerpiece
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Studied taste-aversion learning and proposed that some species are biologically prepared to learn connections between certain stimuli.
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Studied insight in problem solving.
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Ethologist who studied unlearned, instinctual behaviours in the natural environment.
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Discovered the basic principles of classical conditioning.
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Suggested the Premack principle that more-preferred activity could be used to reinforce less-preferred activity.
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Performed experiments which showed that contiguity could not fully explain classical conditioning; proposed contingency theorgy of classical conditioning.
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Developed principles of operant conditioning
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Proposed the law of effect; used puzzle boxes to study problem solving in cats.
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Ethologist who introduced experimental methods into field situations.
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Ethologist who studied communication in honey bees.
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Performed experiment on Little Albert that suggested that the acquisition of phobias was due to classical conditioning.
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| Developed the method of systematic desensitization to eliminate phobias. |
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Empirical studies led to traveling wave theory of pitch, which, at least partially, supported Helmholtz's place-resonance theory.
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Develped a list of depth cues that help us to perceive depth.
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| Proposed filter theory of attention. |
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Developed Fechner's law, which expresses the relationship between the intensity of the stimulus and the intensity of the sensation.
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Developed the visual cliff apparatus, which is used to study the development of depth persecption.
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Studied depth cues (especially texture gradients) that help us to perceive depth.
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Developed the Young-Helmholtz thrichromatic theory of colour vision; developed place-resonance theory of pitch.
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Developed the opponent process theory of colour vision.
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Studied feature detection in visual cortex and discovered simple, complex, and hypercomplex cells.
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Developed theory of isomorphism (a theory that suggests that there is a one-to-one correspondence between the object in teh perceptual field and the pattern of stimulation in the brain.
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Proposed gate theory of pain.
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| Developed Steven's law as an alternative to Fechner's law. |
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Refined ROC curves in signal detection theory
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Proposed volley theory of pitch perception in response to a criticism of the frequency theory of pitch perception.
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| Yerkes, R. and Dodson, J. |
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Developed Yerkes-Dodson Law which states that performance is best at intermediate levels of arousal.
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