Edwin Ray Guthrie

Edwin Ray Guthrie

Edwin Ray Guthrie (9 January 1886, Lincoln, Nebraska - 23 April 1959, Seattle, Washington) was an American behavioral psychologist. Educated at the University of Nebraska and the University of Pennsylvania, he played an important role in the development of the contiguity theory of learning. Guthrie developed a one-trial, contiguity, nonreinforcement theory of learning.



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* [http://www.muskingum.edu/~psych/psycweb/history/guthrie.htm Biography, with a chronology]
* [http://www.bookrags.com/biography-edwin-ray-guthrie/ Edwin Ray Guthrie Biography]
* [http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_g2699/is_0004/ai_2699000486 Gale Encyclopedia of Psychology Article]


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