theories and proponents

THEORIES AND THEIR PROPONENTS

• Wilhelm Wundt: German psychologist, "founder of modern psychology."

• Titchener: Structuralism psychology

• William James, G. Stanley Hall, James M. Cattell: Promote "functionalism psychology."

• Charles Darwin: Applied theories to mental characteristics as humans think, feel, and behave ("evolutionary psychology").

• Herman Ebbinghaus: Associationism psychology.

• Edwin Guthrie: (Stimulus and response) - temporal contiguity.

• Edward Lee Thorndike: "Satisfaction," "the law of effect," connectionism.

• Ivan Pavlov: Involuntary behavior, classical conditioning.

• Max Wertheimer: Gestalt psychology.

• Otto Loewi: Discovered "acetylcholine," responsible for muscle stimulation.

• Ulf von Euler: Discovered "norepinephrine," bringing our nervous system into "high alert."

• Arvid Carlsson: Discovered "dopamine," related to reward mechanisms in the brain.

• Jean Piaget: Cognitive developmen, info processing, dynamic interrelation.

• Sigmund Freud: Psychosexual, psychoanalytic.

• Erik Erikson: Psychosocial.

• Lawrence Kohlberg: Moral development.

• Burrhus Frederic Skinner: Operant conditioning.

• Albert Bandura: Social learning, neo-behaviorism.

• Robert Gagne: Sequence of instruction.

• Abraham Maslow: Hierarchy of needs, motivation theory.

• William Kohler: Insight learning.

• Robert Havighurst: Development 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 development, linguistic theory, Scaffolding.

• Edgar Dale: Cone of experience (20% remember).

• Kohler, Koffka, Wertheimer: Gestalt psychology.

• John Locke: Tabula rasa, empiricism.

• Howard Gardner: Multiple intelligences.

• Noam Chomsky: Language acquisition theory, father of linguistics, 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: Triarchic theory of intelligence.

• John Watson: Behavioral theory.

• Maria Montessori: Transfer of learning, kindergarten preparation of children.

• Edward Tolman: Purposive behaviorism and goal oriented.

• Edward Torrance: Creative problem solving.

• Bernard Weiner: Attribution theory.

• Daniel Goleman: Emotional intelligence.

• Wolfgang Ratke: Used vernacular for approaching the class.

• Mencius: Idealistic wing of Confucianism.

• Hsun Tzu: Realistic wing of Confucianism.

• Taoism: Lao Tzu.

• Herbart Spencer: Moral development.

• Pestalozzi: Symmetrical and harmonious development of child.

• Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Nature of child.

• Arnold Gesell: Maturation theory.

• John Dewey: Learning by doing.

• David Froebel: Father of kindergarten.

• John Bowly: Attachment Theory.

• Edward Boro: Six Thinking Hats Theory.

• Auguste Comte: Father of Sociology.

• Carlos Linnaeus: Father of modern taxonomy.

• John Amos Comenius: Father of modern education.

• Erasmus Desiderius: Father of humanism / social humanism.

• William Kilpatrick: Project method.

PART 3: PHILOSOPHICAL SCHOOLS

• IDEALISM: Plato

• REALISM: Aristotle

• EMPIRICISM: Locke

• PRAGMATISM: Dewey

• EXISTENTIALISM: Hegel

• PHILOSOPHICAL ANALYSIS: Moore

• ESSENTIALISM