Overall Important People

Question 1

Plato

Answer 1

• Believed all knowledge is innate at birth and is perfectible by experiential learning during growth

Question 2

Aristotle

Answer 2

• Plato’s student

- Was the first to observe that “association” among ideas facilitated understanding and recall

Question 3

John Locke

Answer 3

• 1600s

- An English philospher who suggested the concept of tabula rasa

Question 4

Comenius

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• 1592 - 1690
• Recognised age differences in children’s ability to learn
• Noticed that children learn more effectively when they are involved with experiences that they can assimilate

Question 5

Rousseau

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• 1762
• Believed that knowledge acquisition occurs through experience and that reason and investigation should replace arbitrary authority
• Proposed educating children according to their natural inclinations, impulses and feelings

Question 6

Pestalozzi

Answer 6

• 1746 - 1827
• Considered by some to be the first educational psychologist
• Attempted to put Rousseau’s teachings into place

Question 7

Spencer

Answer 7

• 1820 - 1903
• Helped transform sentiments about pedagogy into systematic theory and method through his emphasis on the scientific study of the educational process

Question 8

Herbart

Answer 8

• 1776 - 1841

- Founder of pedagogy as an academic discipline

Question 9

Wundt

Answer 9

• 1832 - 1920

- Theory of consciousness

Question 10

Titchener

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• 1832 - 1920
• He focused on higher mental processes such as concept formation and argued that introspection is a valid form of interpreting a great variety of sensations and feelings

Question 11

Dewey

Answer 11

• 1896
• An influential American Psychologist and educational reformer who wrote extensively about progressive education and the importance of learning through doing

Question 12

Binet

Answer 12

• 1857 - 1911

- French psychologist who developed the first intelligence tests

Question 13

William James

Answer 13

• 1842 - 1910
• An American psychologist who was known for his series of lectures titled “Talks to Teachers on Psychology,” which focused on how teachers could help students learn

Question 14

Thorndike

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• 1874 - 1949

- Law of effect

Question 15

Piaget

Answer 15

• 1896 - 1980

- A Swiss psychologist who is best-known for his highly influential theory of cognitive development

Question 16

B. F. Skinner

Answer 16

• An American behaviourist who introduced the concept of operational conditional
• His research on reinforcement and punishment continue to play an important role in education today