Kennon Lattal
Kennon Lattal is a researcher and author of the 1998 Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior review of Thorndike's Animal Intelligence monograph and its legacies.
Who they are
The work of Kennon Lattal reaches this site through the paper listed below. On this site the name is tied to Law of Effect, Operant Conditioning.
Key papers
Lattal, K. A. (1998). A century of effect: Legacies of E. L. Thorndike's Animal Intelligence monograph. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 70(3), 325-336. What it reports: Reviews Thorndike's Animal Intelligence monograph, its experimental method with cats, dogs and chicks, and the account later called the law of effect.
Key ideas
Law of Effect: Thorndike's account that behaviour followed by a good outcome becomes more likely in that situation, and behaviour followed by a bad outcome less likely.
Operant Conditioning: B.F. Skinner's finding that behavior is shaped by its consequences, not by conscious intent, reward or punish an action and you change how often it recurs.
Sources
- Lattal, K. A. (1998). A century of effect: Legacies of E. L. Thorndike's Animal Intelligence monograph. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 70(3), 325-336.