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thorndike

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Editorial note

But Lynn Thorndike said it wasn't; so that was pretty much the end of that.

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Quick take

A town in Waldo County, Maine, United States.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of thorndike gathered in one view.

noun

A town in Waldo County, Maine, United States.

noun

A surname from Old English.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for thorndike.

noun

A town in Waldo County, Maine, United States.

noun

A surname from Old English.

Example sentences

1

But Lynn Thorndike said it wasn't; so that was pretty much the end of that.

2

Nelson, John Dewey, Edward Thorndike (who conducted early behavioral psychology experiments on chickens), and other Council on Foreign Relations members attended a Progressive Education Association meeting in 1928 at which O.

3

Whenever there has been an income tax—briefly during the Civil War, and permanently since 1913—the IRS (or its predecessor) has had its own whistleblower program, says tax historian Joseph Thorndike of Tax Analysts, a nonprofit publisher.

4

In psychology, this is called "Reinforcement"[1] and that goes back to Skinner (1938) and Thorndike (1911).

5

According to tax historian Joseph Thorndike, the bills of 1982 and 1984 "constituted the biggest tax increase ever enacted during peacetime".

6

First noted by Edward Thorndike in the 1920s, the halo effect has since been applied to a variety of other fields".

7

John Dewey and Edward Thorndike, from Columbia University, were there, and the others were of equal rank.

8

Thorndike, Skinner's predecessor (and the other one with a famous "box").

9

Because of this, I would not consider relativity to have been validated until things like the Kennedy–Thorndike experiment.

10

Thorndike as the first to propose such a construct when he suggested that social intelligence is independent of abstract or academic intelligence.

11

Thorndike's dictum would suggest that this is so, at least in that particular domain.

12

This was only experimentally proven much later, in 1932, by the Kennedy-Thorndike experiment.

Quote examples

1

In psychology, this is called "Reinforcement"[1] and that goes back to Skinner (1938) and Thorndike (1911).

2

According to tax historian Joseph Thorndike, the bills of 1982 and 1984 "constituted the biggest tax increase ever enacted during peacetime".

3

First noted by Edward Thorndike in the 1920s, the halo effect has since been applied to a variety of other fields".

4

Thorndike, Skinner's predecessor (and the other one with a famous "box").

Proper noun examples

1

John Dewey and Edward Thorndike, from Columbia University, were there, and the others were of equal rank.

2

Because of this, I would not consider relativity to have been validated until things like the Kennedy–Thorndike experiment.

3

Thorndike as the first to propose such a construct when he suggested that social intelligence is independent of abstract or academic intelligence.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use thorndike in a sentence?

But Lynn Thorndike said it wasn't; so that was pretty much the end of that.

What does thorndike mean?

A town in Waldo County, Maine, United States.

What part of speech is thorndike?

thorndike is commonly used as noun.