SOURCE: “E. L. Thorndike: The Psychologist as Professional Man of Science,” in Historical Conceptions of Psychology, edited by Mary Henle, Julian Jaynes, and John J. Sullivan, eds., Springer Publishing Company, Inc., 1973, pp. 230-45.
In the following essay, which appeared in an unabridged form in American Psychologist in 1968, and was published in 1973 in Historical Conceptions of Psychology, Clifford discusses the ways in which Thorndike propelled the notion of psychologists and educators as scientists.
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