Robert L. Thorndike
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Robert Ladd Thorndike | |
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Born | September 22, 1910 |
Died | September 21, 1990 | (aged 79)
Children | Robert M. Thorndike |
Parent | Edward Thorndike (father) |
Awards | E. L. Thorndike Award (1971) |
Academic background | |
Education | Wesleyan University Columbia University |
Academic work | |
Institutions | Columbia University |
Robert Ladd Thorndike
Education and career
Thorndike received his B.A. (Mathematics) from
Like his father, Edward Thorndike, Thorndike conducted research in both animal and human psychology. With Irving Lorge, Thorndike published a standardized test in 1954 which later became, with the collaboration of Elizabeth Hagen, the widely used Cognitive Abilities Test.[2] He was one of the first to write about cluster analysis.[4] He received the E. L. Thorndike Award, which was named after his father, in 1971.
Death
Thorndike died of heart failure in September 1990 at the age of 79.[2]
References
- ISBN 9780415285612. Retrieved 2015-06-14.
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- PMID 14771868.
- S2CID 120467216.
External links
Further reading
- Aaron Adams. "Robert Ladd Thorndike (1925)". Kappa Delta Pi. Archived from the original on 2008-11-21.