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Jul 30, 2020 · Clark L. Hull (1884-1952) proposed a new way of understanding behavior. Hull wanted to establish the basic principles of behavioral science to explain the behavior of different animal species as well as individual and social behavior. His theory is known as deductive behaviorism.
He developed and extended Hull's neo-behaviorist theory into what came to be called the Hull-Spence theory of conditioning, learning, and motivation. This theory states that people learn stimulus-response associations when a stimulus and response occur together, and reinforcement motivates the person to engage in the behavior and increases the ...
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May 20, 2024 · Clark L. Hull was an American psychologist known for his experimental studies on learning and for his attempt to give mathematical expression to psychological theory. He applied a deductive method of reasoning similar to that used in geometry, proposing that a series of postulates about psychology.
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Aug 23, 2023 · The drive reduction theory of motivation became popular during the 1940s and 1950s as a way to explain behavior, learning, and motivation. The theory was created by behaviorist Clark Hull and further developed by his collaborator Kenneth Spence. According to the theory, the reduction of drives is the primary force behind motivation.
Oct 19, 2023 · Clark Hull was a psychologist known for his drive theory and research on human motivation. Through his teaching, Hull also had an impact on a number of other well-known and influential psychologists including Kenneth Spence, Neal Miller, and Albert Bandura.
Mar 7, 2019 · Essentially, Hull’s theory of learning assumes that a reinforcer works through the reduction of a drive (Postulate 3, Hull 1952b ), and that the memory trace that links a stimulus and a response (i.e., habit strength) is directly related to the number of reinforced trials (Postulate 4, Hull 1952b ).
Jan 1, 2020 · In Hull’s theory, the excitatory potential of a response to a stimulus is a function of habit strength and drive strength. Drive strength is a matter of deprivation, habits are acquired through learning, learning occurs by repeatedly reinforcing responses to stimuli, and reinforcement is a matter of drive reduction.
