Edward Thorndike
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Thorndike was a member of the board of the Psychological Corporation and served as president of the American Psychological Association in 1912. A ''Review of General Psychology'' survey, published in 2002, ranked Thorndike as the ninth-most cited psychologist of the 20th century. Edward Thorndike had a powerful impact on reinforcement theory and behavior analysis, providing the basic framework for empirical laws in behavior psychology with his law of effect. Through his contributions to the behavioral psychology field came his major impacts on education, where the law of effect has great influence in the classroom. Provided by Wikipedia
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