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John Locke (1632-1704)
(Behaviourist) John Locke (1632-1704) offered an answer to Plato`s question as well. John Locke offered the ”blank state” theory where human are born into the world with no innate knowledge.
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Ivan Pavlov (1849-1936)
(Behaviourist)Ivan Petrovich Pavlov was a Russian physiologist known primarily for his work in classical conditioning. From his childhood days Pavlov demonstrated intellectual brilliance along with an unusual energy which he named "the instinct for research".Inspired by the progressive ideas which D. I. Pisarev, and I. M. Sechenov, the father of Russian physiology, were spreading, Pavlov abandoned his religious career and devoted his life to science.
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Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)
(Humanist) Sigmund Freudwas an Austrian neurologist and the founder of psychoanalysis, a clinical method for treating psychopathology through dialogue between a patient and a psychoanalyst.Freud was born to Galician Jewish parents in the Moravian town of Freiberg, in the Austro-Hungarian Empire. He qualified as a doctor of medicine in 1881 at the University of Vienna.
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John Dewey (1859-1952)
(Constructivist) John Dewey was an American philosopher, psychologist, and educational reformer whose ideas have been influential in education and social reform. Dewey is one of the primary figures associated with the philosophy of pragmatism and is considered one of the founders of functional psychology.
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Edward Thorndike (1874-1949)
(Behaviourist) Edward Thorndike is famous in psychology for his work on learning theory that lead to the development of operant conditioning within behaviorism.
Whereas classical conditioning depends on developing associations between events, operant conditioning involves learning from the consequences of our behavior. Skinner wasn’t the first psychologist to study learning by consequences.
(http://www.simplypsychology.org/edward-thorndike.html)
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John Watson (1878-1958)
(Behaviourist)John Broadus Watson was an American psychologist who established the psychological school of behaviorism. Watson promoted a change in psychology through his address Psychology as the Behaviorist Views it, which was given at Columbia University in 1913. Through his behaviorist approach, Watson conducted research on animal behavior, child rearing, and advertising. In addition, he conducted the controversial "Little Albert" experiment.
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Edwin Guthrie (1886-1959)
( Behaviourist) Edwin Ray Guthrie (/ˈɡʌθri/; Lincoln, Nebraska January 9, 1886 – Seattle, Washington April 23, 1959) was a behavioral psychologist. He first worked as a mathematics teacher, and philosopher, but switched to psychology when he was 33. He spent most of his career at the University of Washington, where he became full professor and then emeritus professor in psychology. -
Jean Piaget (1896-1980)
(Cognitivist) Jean Piaget was a Swiss clinical psychologist known for his pioneering work in child development. Piaget's theory of cognitive development and epistemological view are together called "genetic epistemology".
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Lev Vygotsky (1896-1934)
(Cognitivist) Lev Semyonovich Vygotsky was a Soviet psychologist, the founder of a theory of human cultural and bio-social development commonly referred to as cultural-historical psychology, and leader of the Vygotsky Circle.
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Carl Rogers (1902-1987)
(Humanist) Carl Ransom Rogers was an influential American psychologist and among the founders of the humanistic approach (or client-centered approach) to psychology. Rogers is widely considered to be one of the founding fathers of psychotherapy research and was honored for his pioneering research with the Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions by the American Psychological Association (APA) in 1956.
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Abraham Maslow (1908-1970)
(Humanist) Abraham Harold Maslow was an American psychologist who was best known for creating Maslow's hierarchy of needs, a theory of psychological health predicated on fulfilling innate human needs in priority, culminating in self-actualization. Maslow was a psychology professor at Alliant International University, Brandeis University, Brooklyn College, New School for Social Research, and Columbia University.
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Arthur Combs (1912-1999)
(Humanist) Arthur Wright Combs championed humanistic counseling and education. He proposed a theory that incorporated humanistic values and cognitive factors. This article features a review of his contributions, an overview of his theory, a synthesis of stories about Combs that were acquired during research interviews, and my commentary on his legacy. -
Malcolm Knowles (1913-1997)
(Humanist)Malcolm Shepherd Knowles was an American Adult Educator, famous for the adoption of the theory of andragogy—initially a term coined by the German teacher Alexander Kapp. Knowles is credited with being a fundamental influence in the development of the Humanist Learning Theory and the use of learner constructed contracts or plans to guide learning experiences
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Burrhus Skinner (1904-1990)
(Behavioursit) Burrhus Frederic Skinner, commonly known as B. F. Skinner, was an American psychologist, behaviorist, author, inventor, and social philosopher. He was the Edgar Pierce Professor of Psychology at Harvard University from 1958 until his retirement in 1974.
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Jerome Bruner (1915-2006)
(Cognitivist) Bruner coined the term "Scaffolding" to describe the way children often build on the information they have already mastered.
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Richard Rorty
(Behaviourist) Richard McKay Rorty (October 4, 1931 – June 8, 2007) was an American philosopher. Educated at the University of Chicago and Yale University, he had strong interests and training in both the history of philosophy and contemporary analytic philosophy, the latter of which came to comprise the main focus of his work at Princeton University in the 1960s.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7lB_wDaGJg
