Albert Bandura is the proponent for social cognitive

Wilhelm Wundt is the Father of Modern Psychology, was learning theory (Modelling), he was a Canadian-American
a German physician, physiologist, philosopher, and psychologist who is the David Starr Jordan Professor
professor, known today as one of the founding figures of Emeritus of Social Science in Psychology at Stanford
modern psychology. Wundt, who noted psychology as a University. 2
science apart from philosophy and biology, was the first
person ever to call himself a psychologist.
Sigmund Freud is the Father of Psychoanalysis and
Psychosexual Theory. He was 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
Austrian Empire.
Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi is the Father of Modern
Education. He was a Swiss pedagogue and educational
reformer who exemplified Romanticism in his approach.
He founded several educational institutions both in
German- and French-speaking regions of Switzerland and
wrote many works explaining his revolutionary modern
principles of education.
Ivan Pavlov is the proponent of classical conditioning
theory and he was a Russian physiologist known primarily
for his work in classical conditioning. From his childhood
days Pavlov demonstrated intellectual curiosity along with
an unusual energy which he referred to as "the instinct for
research". Inspired by the progressive ideas which D. I.
Burrhus Frederic Skinner is the proponent for operant
conditioning (Instrument), 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.
Edward Lee Thorndike is the proponent for the Laws of
Learning (law of readiness, law of exercise & law of
effect). He was an American psychologist who spent nearly
his entire career at Teachers College, Columbia University.
His work on comparative psychology and the learning
process led to the theory of connectionism and helped lay
the scientific foundation for educational psychology.
David Ausubel was an American psychologist. His most
significant contribution to the fields of educational
psychology, cognitive science, and science education
learning was on the development and research on advance
organizers since 1960 and the proponent for his Meaningful
Learning Theory.
Jerome Bruner is responsible for human cognitive
psychology and cognitive learning theory in educational
psychology. He was an American psychologist who made
significant contributions to human cognitive psychology
and cognitive learning theory in educational psychology.
Bruner was a senior research fellow at the New York
University School of Law.
Kurt Levin mastered Life Space Concept, known as one of
the modern pioneers of social, organizational, and applied
psychology in the United States. The approach, developed
by Kurt Lewin, is a significant contribution to the fields of
social science, psychology, social psychology,
organizational development, process management, and
change management. His theory was expanded by John R.
P. French who related it to organizational and industrial
settings.
Wolfgang Kohler specialized in Insight Learning or
Problem Solving by Insight, was a German psychologist
and phenomenologist who, like Max Wertheimer, and Kurt
Koffka, contributed to the creation of Gestalt psychology.
Insight learning is perhaps the greatest contribution
Wolfgang Kohler made to psychology. Building off the
influence of Gestalt psychology, Kohler discovered that
learning can occur when we gain insight into an entire
situation, as opposed to focusing only on an individual part.
Urie Bronfenbrenner - Ecological Systems Theory.
(1917-2005) developed the ecological systems theory to
explain how everything in a child and the child's
environment affects how a child grows and develops. He
labeled different aspects or levels of the environment that
influence children's development, including the:
Microsystem. He was a Russian-born American
developmental psychologist who most was known for his
ecological systems theory of child development. His
scientific work and his assistance to the United States
government helped in the formation of the Head Start
program in 1965.
Sandra Bem - Gender Schema Theory. He was an
American psychologist known for her works in androgyny
and gender studies. Her pioneering work on gender roles,
gender polarization and gender stereotypes led directly to
more equal employment opportunities for women in the
United States.
Howard Gardner - Theory of Multiple Intelligence. He
believed that the conventional concept of intelligence was
too narrow and restrictive and that measures of IQ often
miss out on other "intelligences" that an individual may
possess. He was an American developmental psychologist
and the John H. and Elisabeth A. Hobbs Professor of
Cognition and Education at the Harvard Graduate School of
Education at Harvard University.
Elliot Turiel – Domain Based Moral Education and was an
American psychologist and Chancellor’s Professor at the
Graduate School of Education at the University of
California, Berkeley. He teaches courses on human
development and its relation to education.
Robert J. Sternberg - Triarchic Theory of Intelligence.
These three examples exemplify Robert Sternberg's
triarchic theory on intelligence. The triarchic theory
describes three distinct types of intelligence that a person
can possess. Sternberg calls these three types practical
intelligence, creative intelligence, and analytical
intelligence. He was an American psychologist and
psychometrician. He is Professor of Human Development
at Cornell University. Prior to joining Cornell, Sternberg
was president of the University of Wyoming.
Lawrence Kohlberg - Moral Development Theory. The
Theory of Moral Development is a very interesting
subject that stemmed from Jean Piaget's theory of moral
reasoning. Developed by psychologist Lawrence
Kohlberg, this theory made us understand that morality
starts from the early childhood years and can be affected by
several factors. He was an American psychologist best
known for his theory of stages of moral development. He
served as a professor in the Psychology 3
Department at the University of Chicago and at the
Graduate School of Education at Harvard University.
Erik Erikson - Psychosocial Development Theory. He was
a German-American developmental psychologist and
psychoanalyst known for his theory on psychological
development of human beings. He may be most famous for
coining the phrase identity crisis. His son, Kai T. Erikson,
is a noted American sociologist.
Maria Montessori - Montessori Method, Transfer of
Learning. She was an Italian physician and educator best
known for the philosophy of education that bears her name,
and her writing on scientific pedagogy. Montessori is a
method of education that is based on self-directed activity,
hands-on learning and collaborative play. In Montessori
classrooms children make creative choices in their learning,
while the classroom and the teacher offer age-appropriate
activities to guide the process.
Edward Paul Torrance - Creativity Problem Solving and
considered to be the Father of Creativity. He was an
American psychologist from Milledgeville, Georgia. After
completing his undergraduate degree at Mercer University,
Torrance acquired a Master's degree at the University of
Minnesota and then a doctorate from the University of
Michigan. His teaching career spanned from 1957 to 1984.
Avram Noam Chomsky - Linguistic (Language)
Acquisition Device (LAD). He was an American linguist,
philosopher, cognitive scientist, historian, and social critic.
Sometimes described as "the father of modern linguistics",
Chomsky is also a major figure in analytic philosophy and
one of the founders of the field of cognitive science. Noam
Chomsky is a contemporary psychologist, linguist, and
political activist known both for his theory of innate
grammar and for his political activism.
Jean Piaget - Cognitive Development Theory. He was
famous through a series of stages, Piaget proposed four
stages of cognitive development: the sensorimotor,
preoperational, concrete operational and formal
operational period. He was a Swiss psychologist known for
his work on child development. Piaget's theory of cognitive
development and epistemological view are together called
"genetic epistemology". Piaget placed great importance on
the education of children.
John Watson - Behaviorism Theory. He 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
and the Kerplunk experiment. Watson popularized the use
of the scientific theory with behaviorism.
Edward Chace Tolman - Purposive Behaviorism. He was
an American psychologist. Through Tolman's theories and
works, he founded what is now a branch of psychology
known as purposive behaviorism. Tolman also promoted
the concept known as latent learning first coined by
Blodgett.
Bernard Weiner - Attribution Theory on Achievement. He
was an American social psychologist known for developing
a form of attribution theory which explains the emotional
and motivational entailments of academic success and
failure. Bernard Weiner got interested in the field of
attribution after the first studying achievement motivation.
Daniel Goleman - Emotional Intelligence. He was an
author and science journalist. For twelve years, he wrote
for The New York Times, reporting on the brain and
behavioral sciences. Emotional Intelligence (Goleman) 3
years ago • Motivation Theories • Emotional Intelligence
(EQ) is defined as the ability to identify, assess, and control
one's own emotions, the emotions of others, and that of
groups.
Hermann Ebbinghaus - law of forgetting. The forgetting
curve hypothesizes the decline of memory retention in
time. This curve shows how information is lost over time
when there is no attempt to retain it. A related concept is
the strength of memory that refers to the durability that
memory traces in the brain. He was a German psychologist
who pioneered the experimental study of memory, and is 4
known for his discovery of the forgetting curve and the Victor Harold Vroom - Expectancy Theory. Vroom's
spacing effect. He was also the first person to describe the expectancy theory assumes that behavior results from
learning curve. He was the father of the eminent neo- conscious choices among alternatives whose purpose it is to
Kantian philosopher Julius Ebbinghaus. maximize pleasure and minimize pain. Vroom realized that
John Locke - Theory of Association. According to other an employee's performance is based on individual’s factors
social contract theorists, when the government fails to such as personality, skills, knowledge, experience and
secure their natural rights (Locke) or satisfy the best abilities. He was a business school professor at the Yale
interests of society (called the "general will" in Rousseau), School of Management. He holds a PhD from University of
citizens can withdraw their obligation to obey, or change Michigan and an MS and BS from McGill University.
the leadership through elections or other means. He was an Lev Semyonovich Vysgotsky - Sociocultural Theory or
English philosopher and physician, widely regarded as one "zone of proximal development" (ZPD). His worked was
of the most influential of Enlightenment thinkers and largely unknown to the West until it was published in 1962.
commonly known as the "Father of Liberalism". ... It asserts three major themes regarding social interaction,
Edward Thorndike - Belongingness and Connectionism. the more knowledgeable other, and the zone of proximal
In 1898, was famous in psychology for his work on development. He was a Soviet psychologist, the founder of
learning theory that lead to the development of operant
an unfinished Marxist theory of human cultural and bio-
conditioning within behaviorism. Whereas classical
social development commonly referred to as cultural-
conditioning depends on developing associations between
events, operant conditioning involves learning from the historical psychology
consequences of our behavior. He was an American
psychologist who spent nearly his entire career at Teachers
College, Columbia University. His work on comparative
psychology and the learning process led to the theory of
connectionism and helped lay the scientific foundation for
educational psychology.
David McClelland - Needs Achievement Theory or
Human Motivation Theory. Human Motivation Theory
states that every person has one of three main driving
motivators: the needs for achievement, affiliation, or
power. These motivators are not inherent; we develop them
through our culture and life experiences. He was an
American psychologist, noted for his work on motivation
Need Theory. He published a number of works during the
1950s and the 1990s and developed new scoring systems
for the Thematic Apperception Test and its descendants.
Henry Murray - Theory of Psychogenic Needs. He was an
American psychologist at Harvard University. He was
Director of the Harvard Psychological Clinic in the School
of Arts and Sciences after 1930. Murray developed a theory
of personality called personology, based on "need" and
"press".