Learning Theory Timeline

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This timeline is a work in progress. The goal is to identify the introduction of key ideas about learning through the history of psychology, education, linguistics, computer science, anthropology and other relevant domains.


Contents

Ancient Philosophy

  • Aristotle
  • Plato/Socrates

Renaissance Philosophy

  • Descartes
  • Lock
  • Hume

Early Psychology

  • Freud
  • James
  • Kohler

Progressive Education

  • Dewey

Behaviorism

  • Thordike
  • Skinner
  • Watson

Gestalt Psychology

  • Wertheimer
  • Piaget

Information Processing

  • Newell & Simon
  • Chomsky

Mental Models

  • Johnson-Laird
  • deKleer
  • Hestenes

Neural Networks

Situated Cognition

  • Lave
  • Collins & Brown
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