When1: 1932
When2: 1950
Who: Edward Chase Tolman [Tolman, Edward Chase]
What: psychologist
Where: USA
works\ Purposive Behavior in Animals and Men [1932]; Organism and the Causal Texture of the Environment [1935]
Detail: He lived 1886 to 1959 and developed a behavioral learning theory that did not rely on reflexes. He studied hypothesis formation and reward expectance in animal learning. He studied spatial orientation and cognitive maps [1950]. He studied latent learning and sign-gestalt theory [Tolman, 1935].
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