Correct Answer - Option 4 : None of the above
Connectionism is a theory of learning which comes under the Behaviorist School of Thought on learning.
Connectionism was propounded by Edward Lee Thorndike in a report published in 1910 in The Journal of Educational Psychology, entitled “The Contribution of Psychology to Education”.
- According to him, learning is the result of neural connection between stimulus (S) and response(R) through trial and error.
- For him, trial and error mean selecting and connecting. His notion of learning was arrived at after his famous experiment conducted on animals. He used to put an animal in a cage which was arranged in such a way that the animal made a certain kind of response to escape from the cage.
- Based on his theory, Thorndike formulated three important laws of learning.
- The Law of Readiness
- The Law of Exercise
- The Law of Effect
Thus, it is concluded that In 1910 theory of connectionism was developed.