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 psychologt")
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.
freud -- psychosexual ,
psychoanalytic
erickson -- psychosocial
kohlberg -- moral dev't,
skinner -- operant cond.
pavlov -- classical cond.
thorndike -- connectionism

bandura -- social learning, neo behaviorism

gagne -- sequence of
instruction
maslow -- hierarchy of needs ,
motivation theory
kohler -- insight learning
havighurst -- devt task theory
bloom -- bloom's cognitive
taxonomy
simpson -- psychomotor
domain
krathwohl -- affective domain
bruner -- constructivist, spiral
curr, instrumental conceptualism
vygotsky -- socio-cultural
theory of cognitive devt ,
linguistic theory, Scaffolding
dale -- cone of exp. (20%
remember)
kohler,koffka, weirtheimer -gestalt psychology
locke -- tabularasa , empiricism
gardner -- multiple int.
chomsky -- language
acquisition theory , fr of
linguistic, nativism
ausubel -- meaningful learning,
graphic organizer, assumption
cooley -- looking glass self
theory
flavel -- metacognition
sandra bem -- gender schema
theory
turriel -- social domain theory
sternberg -- triachic theory of
int.
watson -- behaviorial theory
montessory -- transfer of
learning, kinder garten
preparation of children.
tolman -- purposive
behaviorism and goal oriented
torrance -- creative problem

solving
weiner -- attribution theory
goleman/coleman? -emotional intelligence
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
rosseau -- nature of child
Arnold Gesell - maturation
theory
John Dewey - Learning by doing
Froebel - Father of kinder
garten