Timeline

1910:
John Dewey, the founder of the Experimental Laboratory School, publishes "How We Think".

1912:
Max Wertheimer, the founder of the Gestalt movement, publishes a paper on the visual perception of movement.

1913:
John B. Watson, an early pioneer of the behaviorist revolution, publishes "Psychology as the Behaviorist Views It".

1914:
Wolfgang Kohler, a Gestalt psychologist, performs landmark investigations with chimpanzees.

1920's:
Jean Piaget conducts early psychological studies on his children, forming his theories of experience-based learning.

1928:
Edward L. Thorndike carries out the first major scientific study of the adult learner and the learning process used by adults.

1932:
Frederic Bartlett conducts his experiment using the story, "The War of the Ghosts".

1934:
Lev Vygotsky dies from tuberculosis. Due to the political climate of the USSR, his works will not be published again 1956.

1946:
Kurt Lewin develops experiential learning theories through his work with T-groups.

1954:
B. F. Skinner, an advocate for the behaviorist approach, publishes "Science and Human Behavior".

1965:
Robert Gagne publishes "The Conditions of Learning", including the nine events of instruction.

1966:
Jerome Bruner describes discovery learning in "Toward a Theory of Instruction"

1968:
David Ausubel presents his Theory of Meaningful Verbal learning published in "Educational Psychology: A Cognitive View"

1968:
Atkinson & Shiffrin develop Information Processing Model for human memory.

1970:
Seymour Papert, forms the Logo group. The group develops Logo, a computer microworld for children.

1972:
Bernice McCarthy develops 4MAT System.

1984:
David Kolb, an advocate for experiential learning, publishes "Experiential Learning: Experience as the Source of Learning and Development".

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