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Key Psychology Theories & Founders

The document lists numerous theorists and the theories or concepts they proposed in psychology and education, including: Wilhelm Woundt who is considered the founder of modern psychology; Charles Darwin who developed theories of mental characteristics and evolutionary psychology; Ivan Pavlov who studied involuntary behavior; Jean Piaget who studied cognitive development, information processing, and dynamic interrelations; Sigmund Freud who proposed psychosexual and psychoanalytic theories; and Jerome Bruner who developed constructivist theories of a spiral curriculum and instrumental conceptualism.

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Key Psychology Theories & Founders

The document lists numerous theorists and the theories or concepts they proposed in psychology and education, including: Wilhelm Woundt who is considered the founder of modern psychology; Charles Darwin who developed theories of mental characteristics and evolutionary psychology; Ivan Pavlov who studied involuntary behavior; Jean Piaget who studied cognitive development, information processing, and dynamic interrelations; Sigmund Freud who proposed psychosexual and psychoanalytic theories; and Jerome Bruner who developed constructivist theories of a spiral curriculum and instrumental conceptualism.

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1 THEORIES AND THEIR PROPONENTS

✔Wilhelm Woundt = german psycologist “founder of modern psychology.

✔Titchener = structuralism psychology

William james, G. Stanley Hall, James M. Cattell…. these three promote “functionalism
psychology

✔Charles darwin = theories to mental characteristics as human think, feel & behave(”
evolutionary psychology”)

✔Herman Ebbinghaus = associationism psychology

✔Edwin Guthrie = (stimulus and response ) :; temporal conguity

✔Edward Lee Thorndike = “satisfaction” “the law of effect”.

✔Ivan Pavlov = involuntary behavior

✔Max Wertheimer = gestalt psychology

✔Otto Loewi = discovered “acetylchloline” respobsible in stimulation of muscles

✔Ulf von Euler discovered “norepinephrine” bringing our nervous system into “high alert”

✔Arvid Carlsson discovered “dopamine” the reward mechanisms in the brain

✔Jean Piaget — cognitive dev’t , info processing , dynamic interrelation.

✔Sigmund Freud — psychosexual , psychoanalytic

✔Erik Erickson — psychosocial

✔Lawrence Kohlberg — moral dev’t,

✔Burrhus Frederic Skinner — operant cond.

✔Ivan Pavlov — classical cond.

✔Edward Lee Thorndike — connectionism

✔Albert Bandura — social learning, neo – behaviorism


✔Robert Gagne — sequence of instruction

✔Abraham Maslow — hierarchy of needs , motivation theory

✔William Kohler — insight learning

✔Robert Havighurst — devt task theory

✔Benjamin Bloom — bloom’s cognitive taxonomy

✔Simpsons / Anita Harrow — psychomotor domain

✔David Krathwohl — affective domain

✔Jerome Bruner — constructivist, spiral curr, instrumental conceptualism

✔Lev Vygotsky — socio-cultural theory of cognitive devt , linguistic theory, Scaffolding

✔Edgar Dale — cone of exp. (20% remember)

✔kohler,koffka, weirtheimer — gestalt psychology

✔John Locke — tabularasa , empiricism

✔Howard Gardner — multiple int.

✔Noam Chomsky — language acquisition theory , fr of linguistic, nativism

✔David Ausubel — meaningful learning, graphic organizer, assumption

✔Charles Cooley — looking glass self theory

✔John Flavel — metacognition

✔Sandra Bem — gender schema theory

✔Elliot Turriel — social domain theory

✔Robert Sternberg — triachic theory of int.

✔Johm Watson — behaviorial theory

✔Maria Montessori — transfer of learning, kinder garten preparation of children.


✔Edward Tolman — purposive behaviorism and goal oriented

✔Edward Torrance — creative problem solving

✔Bernard Weiner — attribution theory

✔Daniel Goleman/coleman? — emotional intelligence

✔Wolfgang Ratke — used vernacular for approaching the class.

✔mencius — idealistic wing of confucianism

✔hzun tzu — realistic wing of confusianism

✔taoism — lao tzu

✔Herbart spencer — moral devt

✔Pestallozi — symmetrical and harmonious devt of child

✔John Jacques Rosseau — nature of child

✔Arnold Gesell – maturation theory

✔John Dewey – Learning by doing

✔David Froebel – Father of kinder garten

✔John Bowly – Attainment Theory

✔Edward Boro – Six Thinking Hats Theory

✔Auguste Comte – Father of Sociology

✔Carlos Linnaeus – Father of modern taxonomy.

✔John Amos Comencius – Fr. of modern education.

✔Erasmus Desiderius – Fr. of humanism/ social humanism

✔William Kilpatrick – Project method.

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