Some statements concern the
Some statements concern the conscious states of the animal, what he is to himself as an inner life; others concern his original and acquired ways of response, his behavior, what he is an outside observer Edward Thorndike
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Some statements concern the conscious states of the animal, what he is to himself as an inner life; others concern his original and acquired ways of response, his behavior, what he is an outside observer Edward Thorndike
The restriction of studies of human intellect and character to studies of conscious states was not without influence on a scientific studies of animal psychology. Edward Thorndike
This growth in the number, speed of formation, permanence, delicacy and complexity of associations possible for an animal reaches its acme in the case of man. Edward Thorndike
The un-conscious distortion of the facts is almost harmless compared to the unconscious neglect of an animal’s mental life until it verges on the unusual and marvelous. Edward Thorndike
From the lowest animals of which we can affirm intelligence up to man this type of intellect is found. Edward Thorndike
Amongst the minds of animals that of man leads, not as a demigod from another planet, but as a king from the same race. Edward Thorndike
On the whole, the psychological work of the last quarter of the nineteenth century emphasized the study of consciousness to the neglect of the total life of intellect and character Edward Thorndike
Dogs get lost hundreds of times and no one ever notices it or sends an account of it to a scientific magazine. Edward Thorndike
For origin and development of human faculty we must look to these processes of association in lower animals. Edward Thorndike
When, instead of merely associating some act with some situation in the animal way, we think the situation out, we have a set of particular feelings of its elements. Edward Thorndike