Edwin Ray Guthrie

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Edwin Ray Guthrie (9 January 1886, Lincoln, Nebraska - 23 April 1959, Seattle, Washington) was an American behavioral psychologist. Educated at the University of Nebraska and the University of Pennsylvania, he played an important role in the development of the contiguity theory of learning. Guthrie developed a one-trial, contiguity, nonreinforcement theory of learning.


Preceded by
Gardner Murphy
53rd President of the

American Psychological Association
1945

Succeeded by
Henry Edward Garrett

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