About Edward Lee Thorndike’s Doctorate thesis

Abstract

Thorndike'scientific works developed within an epoch in which Northamerican Psychology underwent deep institutional and profesional changes. During those changes, his work was one of the most enduring, respected and clearer standard. Probably, as a the result of its main features: experimental methods, conceptual simplicity, meticulousness and internal consistency. All these features can be found in his thesis, one of the few ones that has became a classic.