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“I think, therefore I am”

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Rene Descartes

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When did Rene Descartes live?

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Around 1625

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Believed truth and knowledge resided in human beings prior to experience

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Rene Descartes

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Believed a child is a blank slate (tabula rasa)

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John Locke

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When did John Locke live?

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Around 1650

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Was on the “nature” side of the original nature vs. nurture debate

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Rene Descartes

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Was on the “nurture” side of the original nature vs. nurture debate

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John Locke

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Where do Cognitivists fall under nature vs. nurture?

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Around the middle

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Where do Behaviorists fall under nature vs. nurture?

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All the way to nurture

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Where do Humanists fall under nature vs. nurture?

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Closer to nurture than nature

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When did Jean-Jacques Rousseau live?

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Around 1750

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Who wrote Emile?

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Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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Believed human beings are inherently good and should be raised in harmony with nature

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Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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Believed teaching should be based on discovery (with covert guidance from the teacher)

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Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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When did John Dewey live?

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1859 - 1952

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Believed traditional education was too concerned with the delivery of pre-ordained knowledge and not on learner’s learning experiences

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John Dewey

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Wrote groundbreaking book, Experience and Education, in 1938

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John Dewey

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When did Paulo Freire live?

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1921 - 1997

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Brazilian educator who began a literacy program for peasants and slumdwellers in the 1950s and 1960s.

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Paulo Freire

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Wrote “dialogue liberates - monologue oppresses”

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Paulo Freire

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Inspired Jane Elliott’s blue-eyed/non-blue-eyed classroom experiment

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Paulo Freire

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Critical consciousness was a cornerstone of his ideas

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Paulo Freire

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What kind of learning theorist was Edward Thorndike?

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Behaviorist

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What kind of learning theorist was John Watson?

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Behaviorist

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What kind of learning theorist was Ivan Pavlov?
Behaviorist
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What kind of learning theorist was BF Skinner?
Behaviorist
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What kind of learning theorist was Edward Tolman?
Behaviorist
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What kind of learning theorist was Robert Gagne?
Behaviorist
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When did Edward Thorndike live?
1874 - 1949
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Considered the first pure behavioral psychologist
Edward Thorndike
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His most famous experiment was how cats learned to escape from a box through trial and error
Edward Thorndike
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Assumed "rewarding outcomes" would be "stamped in" and "profitless outcomes" would be "stamped out"
Edward Thorndike
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Believed connections become strengthened with practice and weakened with disuse
Edward Thorndike
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The founding father of the behaviorist movement and stimulus-response
John Watson
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Worked with Albert, the 9-month-old baby
John Watson
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Identified the conditioning process as pre-conditioning, conditioning, post-conditioning
John Watson
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When did John Watson live?
1878 - 1958
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When did Ivan Pavlov live?
1849 - 1936
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Won a Nobel Prize in 1904 for his work in physiology research on dogs
Ivan Pavlov
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Created the term "classical conditioning" for when a response to a primary stimulus can be activated by a secondary stimulus
Ivan Pavlov
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When did BF Skinner live?
1904 - 1990
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Developed the term radical behaviorism
BF Skinner
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Identified the terms positive and negative reinforcement
BF Skinner
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Developed the term "operant conditioning," in which a response is based on acting upon the environment (rather than classical conditioning, which is a reflex)
BF Skinner
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Identified the concept of latent learning
Edward Tolman
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When did Edward Tolman live?
1886 - 1959
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Said that people build cognitive maps of their environment from past experiences
Edward Tolman
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When did Robert Gagne live?
1916 - 2002
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Identified nine levels of learning
Robert Gagne
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Argued that learning has a hierarchical nature
Robert Gagne

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