Slides for Chapter 2

Chapter Two / Early Theories About the Association of Ideas / Aristotle

British Empiricists/British Associationists / Nativism / Associationism

Associationism / Thomas Brown's Secondary Principles / Ebbinghaus' Memory Experiments

Ebbinghaus' Major Findings / Forgetting Curve / Ebbinghaus' Major Findings

Ebbinghaus, Associationists, and Later Learning Theorists / Physiological Facts and Theories Related to Associationism / Basic Neuron

Action Potentials / Action Potentials / Synapses 1

Synapses 2 / Synapses 3 / Synapses 4

Physiological Research on "Simple Sensations" / Physiological Research on "Complex Ideas" / Simple Retinal Shapes

Complex Retinal Shapes / Physiological Research on Associative Learning / Networks of Neurons

Physiological Research on Associative Learning / A Brief History / I. Pavlov

J. Watson / "Psychology as the Behaviorist Views It" / E. Thorndike

Thorndike's Law of Effect / Thorndike's Law of Effect (Condensed) / B.F. Skinner

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