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  2. Trial and error - Wikipedia

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    According to W.H. Thorpe, the term was devised by C. Lloyd Morgan (1852–1936) after trying out similar phrases "trial and failure" and "trial and practice". [3] Under Morgan's Canon , animal behaviour should be explained in the simplest possible way.

  3. Source-monitoring error - Wikipedia

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    Errors will occur if an individual's subjective logic leads them to perceive an event as unlikely to occur or belong to a specific source, even if the truth is otherwise. Simple memory decay can be a source for errors in both judgements, keeping an individual from accessing relevant memory information, leading to source-monitoring errors. [1]

  4. Trial and Error (book) - Wikipedia

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    [1] [2] The book focuses on writing and editing and describes the behind-the-scenes machinations that result in the final publication of writing. The book was instrumental in the writing careers of Ray Bradbury, Robert A. Heinlein, Jerry Pournelle, Piers Anthony, and Richard A. Lupoff.

  5. Edward Thorndike - Wikipedia

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    Edward Lee Thorndike (() August 31, 1874 – () August 9, 1949) was an American psychologist who spent nearly his entire career at Teachers College, Columbia University.His work on comparative psychology and the learning process led to his "theory of connectionism" and helped lay the scientific foundation for educational psychology.

  6. Problem solving - Wikipedia

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    Problem solving is the process of achieving a goal by overcoming obstacles, a frequent part of most activities. Problems in need of solutions range from simple personal tasks (e.g. how to turn on an appliance) to complex issues in business and technical fields.

  7. Error-related negativity - Wikipedia

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    The ERN is a sharp negative going signal which begins about the same time an incorrect motor response begins, (response locked event-related potential), and typically peaks from 80 to 150 milliseconds (ms) after the erroneous response begins (or 40–80 ms after the onset of electromyographic activity).

  8. W. Ross Ashby - Wikipedia

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    The book gave accounts of homeostasis, adaptation, memory and foresight in living organisms in Ashby's determinist, mechanist terms. [ 2 ] Ashby's 1964 paper Constraint Analysis of Many-Dimensional Relations began the study of reconstructability analysis , a multivariate systems modeling methodology based on set theory and information theory ...

  9. Edwin Ray Guthrie - Wikipedia

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    Edwin Ray Guthrie (/ ˈ ɡ ʌ θ r i /; January 9, 1886 – April 23, 1959), a behavioral psychologist, began his career in mathematics and philosophy in 1917. He spent most of his career at the University of Washington, where he was a full-time professor and later became an emeritus professor in psychology.