History

1901
Ivan Pavlov publishes the Classical Conditioning Theory

1911
Edward Thorndike publishes a book called Animal Intelligence, leading to the development of Operant Conditioning

1913

John Watson publishes Psychology as the Behaviorist Views It, which helps to establish behaviorism

1898

Edward Thorndike develops the Law of Effect

1938

Edwin Guthrie proposes a contiguity theory

1943

Clark Hull develops an idea which suggests that the stimulus-response connection depends on the kind and the amount of reinforcement

1938

B.F. Skinner coins the term “Operant Conditioning

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