Edward Thor man

An Edward Chase Thor man (Edward Chase Tolman, from April 14, 1886 to November 19, 1959) is an American psychologist.

Massachusetts waist Newton native place. I did a birch for a long time from 1918 through 1954 in the University of California, Berkeley.

Sang action-first principle of the teleology from a macroscopic viewpoint and introduced a parameter into action-first principle psychology. It is said that all actions are directed by an aim, and he states that the learning is an evidence fact objective highly to be concerned with a purpose. And the action revised it with S-O-R saying that the internal process as the parameter intervened not simple stimulation (independent variable) and direct combination (S-R) of the reaction (dependent variable) in the meantime. In addition, I studied the action of the animal and paid attention to cognitive learning.

I was considered to be the psychologist who represented new action-first principle with Edwin Guthrie and Clark Hull and ballast Skinner, but all configurationism of them had affinity, and the situation of the Thor man prepared for birth of the のちの cognitive psychology.

On page 127 of "professor, learning process theory" (Open University graduate school teaching materials, 2004) of the Giyoo Hatano and others editing, as for the Thor man, an episode unbalanced in is introduced by a mouse not Homo sapiens by Shigefumi Nagano so as to have written in the title page of the book called "a purpose action in an animal and the Homo sapiens", "I give this book to the mouse".

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