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Major Theorists

Psychological behaviorists
Ivan Pavlov (1849-1936)
B. F. Skinner (1904-1999)
Edward Thorndike (1874-1949)

Methodological behaviorist
John B. Watson (1878-1958)
Clark Hull

Analytical or logical behaviorists
Gilbert Ryle (1900-1976)
Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951)
U. T. Place(1924-2000)

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Major Theorists

Psychological Behaviorists
     Ivan Pavlov (1849-1936)               

"Science demands from a man all his life.

If you had two lives that would not be enough for you.

Be passionate in your work and in your searching."--Ivan Pavlov

A 1904 Nobel Prize winner in Physiology, Pavlov is best known for his research on physiology and digestion and classical conditioning.  Ivan Pavlov's discovery and research on reflexes influenced the growing behaviorist movement, and his work was often cited in John B. Watson's writings. Other researchers utilized Pavlov's work in the study of conditioning as a form of learning. His research also demonstrated techniques of studying reactions to the environment in an objective, scientific method. (http://psychology.about.com/od/profilesofmajorthinkers/p/pavlov.htm)

While researching the digestive function of dogs, Pavlov noted that dogs would salivate before the delivery of food. In a series of well-known experiments, he presented a variety of stimuli before the presentation of food, eventually finding that, after repeated association, a dog would salivate to the presence of a stimulus other than food. He termed this response a conditional reflex. Pavlov also discovered that these reflexes originate in the cerebral cortex of the brain.  (http://psychology.about.com/od/profilesofmajorthinkers/p/pavlov.htm)

 B. F. Skinner (1904-1999)             

"The consequences of behavior determine

the probability that the behavior will occur again" --B. F. Skinner

Skinner is best known for operant conditioning and schedules of reinforcement.  He became one of the leaders of behaviorism and his work contributed immensely to experimental psychology. He also invented the 'Skinner box,' in which a rat learns to obtain food by pressing a lever.

Using a device he developed called the “cumulative recorder”, he found that behavior did not depend on the preceding stimulus as Watson and Pavlov maintained. Instead, Skinner found that behaviors were dependent upon what happens after the response. Skinner called this operant behavior. (http://psychology.about.com/od/profilesofmajorthinkers/p/bio_skinner.htm)

Edward Thorndike (1874-1949)

In 1912, Edward Thorndike publishes Animal Intelligence. The article leads to the development of the theory of operant conditioning. 

Edward Thorndike developed a principle suggesting those responses that are closely followed by satisfaction will become firmly attached to the situation and therefore more likely to reoccur when the situation is repeated. Conversely, if the situation is followed by discomfort, the connections to the situation will become weaker and the behavior of response is less likely to occur when the situation is repeated. (http://psychology.about.com/od/lindex/g/lawofeffect.htm)

And then I would’ve continued with the same design format and information for the rest of the scientists listed in that wiki.