Robert L. Thorndike

Robert Ladd Thorndike He was president of the American Educational Research Association and the Psychometric Society.

Like his father, Edward Thorndike, Thorndike conducted research in both animal and human psychology. With Irving Lorge, Thorndike published a standardized test in 1954 which later became, with the collaboration of Elizabeth Hagen, the widely used Cognitive Abilities Test. and test-wiseness , the ability of test takers to find the right answer based on the known character of tests rather than knowledge of the topic. He received the E. L. Thorndike Award, which was named after his father, in 1971.

Death Thorndike died of heart failure in September 1990 at the age of 79.