Thorndike repeated it many times, whilst he timed the cat. He had concluded that the cat learned how to get out of the box through rewards. This links to why behaviourists are also known as "learning theorists". .
Humanists believe that we as in humans self-actualise in stages. We see and realise who we are due to what is important to us and makes us "complete". Through this we would strive to get the same again and repeat those actions. An example of this would be when a teenager goes out on a date for the first time, if he/she enjoyed the date then it is likely for that person to ask to go out again or move their relationship a stage further. One of the differences between behaviourism and humanism is that behaviourists use animals as well as humans in the procedure of an experiment as they believe that animals learn in a similar fashion to that of humans. Humanists look towards the actions of humans and their environment to see how they learn. This approach is clarified through the Hierarchy of needs triangle; this shows the different levels of human needs placed in a triangle. At the bottom of the triangle is the most basic of needs; food sex and "basic survival needs". Next up would be the "life enhancing needs" followed by "emotional needs" and at the top of he triangle would be the concept of self-actualisation. It is believed that people go through their lives working their way up the "hierarchy of needs", as their environment influences them, which surrounds them in their every day life. Supposedly once a person reaches the top of the triangle the will be self-contempt. Although this makes sense, it is still a theory, and behaviourists, feel that its not a good enough hypothesis, as it cannot be proved through "general science" methods.
Ivan Pavlov discovered a learning process called "classical condition" at the beginning of the 20th century. This process is when a stimulus which brings about no response in a human or animal, until it is associated with another.