Hull was one of the first theorists to attempt to create a grand theory designed to explain all behavior. He started developing his theory shortly after he began working at Yale Univer… See more

Hull is considered a neo-behaviorist thinker, but like the other major behaviorists, he believed that human behavior could be explained by conditioning and reinforceme… See more

Hull's goal was to develop a theory of learning that could be expressed mathematically, to create a "formula" to explain and understand human behavior. Hull's appr… See more

While Hull's theory was popular during the middle part of the 20th century, it began to fall out of favor for a number of reasons. Starting as early as the 1950s, critics began pointing ou… See more

While Hull's theory has largely fallen out of favor in psychology, it is still worthwhile to understand the effect it had on other psychologists of the time and how it helped contribute t… See more