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conditioning insight imprinting trial-and-error learning Pavlovian conditioning curiosity operant conditioning filial imprinting conditioned stimulus Thorndike puzzle box psychomotor learning perceptual learning observational learning social learning play socialization transfer of training imitation

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Georg Elias Müller

German psychologist

Kenneth Wartinbee Spence

American psychologist