Guthrie.

First of all, how the hell do you pronounce the name?!

Second, has any one of you EVER had the misfortune of studying his theory? Which sucks, by the way. Makes no sense to me, but then, what do I know right? =P

Its so stupid, seriously. I mean, who gives a damn about the 'minutae of movements'?! Dude, nobody cares.

I like Guthrie ki ek baat, though. He disses all the earlier theorists, even while he based his own theory on some of their findings. Check this:

"The system proposed by Edwin Ray Guthrie follows naturally from those of Thorndike and Pavlov....Pavlov criticized Guthrie for his emphasis on the one principle of contiguity, without sufficient concern for the many complexities within conditioning...Guthrie retorted by saying Pavlov's theory was a highly artificial form of learning, and what was found to occur within Pavlov's experiments needed explanations."

Very politely indicating that Pavlov's theory was (maybe) very biased, and needed more proof and explanation to prove its originality and un-bias. LOL. You go, G!

Another thing. Why did the psychologists in history think they had to prove one minor little point with 10,000 experiments, research, and fazool pages and pages of stuff that nobody could find remotely even useful? Why couldn't they have just made a nice, COMPACT theory so that people like us no-brains could easily understand and reproduce it in our examinations?

Goddammit I HATE experimental psychology. And research.

I fail, that very possible. Especially after the dhoka of my research teacher. I hate you.