Learning and Cognitive Theorists groups psychologists and researchers whose central contribution is an account of how learning itself works in the mind or in behavior, separate from a theorist whose main contribution is a curriculum, an assessment design or a whole school system. Belongs here: behaviorist and cognitive psychologists such as B.F. Skinner, Jean Piaget, Lev Vygotsky and Jerome Bruner; social, cognitive and motivational theorists such as Albert Bandura, Carol Dweck and Carl Rogers; and researchers who named a specific learning mechanism, such as John Sweller's cognitive load theory, Allan Paivio's dual-coding theory, Howard Gardner's multiple intelligences, George Siemens's connectivism, Jack Mezirow's transformative learning and Malcolm Knowles's andragogy. Does not belong here: a theorist whose main legacy is a curriculum or assessment framework built using one of these mechanisms, such as Benjamin Bloom, grouped under Curriculum and Instructional Design Theorists.
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1. Wikipedia: Behaviorism
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Behaviorism emerged in the early 1900s as a reaction to depth psychology and other traditional forms of psychology, which often had difficulty making predictions that could be tested experimentally.
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