For as long as educational psychology has existed, about 90 years, there have been debates about what it really is? with is Role Some people believe educational psychology is simply knowledge gained from psychology and applied to the activities of the classroom. Others believe it involves applying the methods of psychology to study classroom and school life. The view generally accepted today is that educational psychology is a distinct discipline with its own theories, research methods, problems and techniques, “educational psychology is distinct from other branches of ...

The Granville Stanley Hall He was an American psychologist and an educator. Hall was a child psychologist whose theories of child psychology strongly influenced the educational psychology. He was a pioneer in developing psychology in United States. His wide ranging and prolific writings reveal a central theme best characterized as genetic psychology or evolutionism. In 1878 under the guidance of his friend William James, he received from Harvard the first doctorate in psychology ever given in the United States. From 1882 -1888 he taught psychology at Johns Hopkins University. ...

The American psychologist  and editor James Cattell was a pioneer in American psychology, James McKeen Cattell  Study on Psychology  who influenced the profession to use objective methods of study and to apply psychology to practical aspects of life. He was born in 1860 in Easton, Pennsylvania. He was educated by a private tutor in his home. Cattel’s father was a professor of ancient languages, later he became the president of the college. Cattell joined college officially when he was 20 years old and got his undergraduate degree. Cattell held the first professorship ...

Terman Lewis Madison was known for his research on intelligence, and in particular on the gifted. He translated the Binet test of intelligence into English, Psychology Intelligence Test set new age norms and standardized the scores. His version came to be called the Stanford-Binet test. Lewis Terman grew up in rural Indiana, where he was the 12th of 14 children, from a prosperous farming family. Terman received a BS from a local teachers’ college, MA from Indiana University, and his Ph.D. from Clark University in Massachusetts. His dissertation was n comparing mental and physical ...

Prominent Pioneers in Educational Psychology there are many scientist Researched on it. Joseph Mayer Rice He is one of those who set the stage for Thorndike. He was the great muckraker and classroom observer. He is considered as the father of research on teaching. Edward Lee Thorndike E.L.Thorndike, an American pioneer in comparative psychology, was born in Lowell, Massachusetts sin 1874 to the family of a Metyhodist minister. He became interested in the field of psychology after reading William James. He was awarded the doctorate for his classic thesis “Animal Intelligence” ...