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Edward Thorndike. (August 31, 1874 – August 9, 1949) was an American educational and comparative psychologis......... Educational Psychology (1903) and Introduction to Theory of Mental and Social Measurement (1904) Educational Psychology (1913-1914) as the "Laws of Learning

earned him greater fame in behavioristic psychology

theory of "connectionism." Thorndike proposed a principle of “belongingness”

The law of effect was described by Thorndike in 1898.

Benjamin Bloom (February 21, 1913 - September 13, 1999) was an American educational psychologist

Bloom developed a "taxonomy of educational objectives"

Affective: Receiving, Responding, Valuing, Organizing, Characterizing

Psychomotor: Reflex movements, Fundamental movements, Perception, Physical abilities, Skilled movements, No discursive communication

Cognitive: Knowledge(of specifics, of ways and means of dealing with specifics,

Activity theory: (AT) A Soviet psychological meta-theory, paradigm, or framework, with its roots in socio-cultural approach. Its founders were Alexei Nikolaevich Leontyev, and S. L. Rubinshtein (1889–1960). It became one of the major psychological approaches in the former USSR, being widely used in both theoretical and applied psychology, in areas such as the education, training, ergonomics, and work psychology.

Andragogy: A theory of adult education proposed by the American educator Malcolm Knowles (April 24, 1913—November 27, 1997).

Brainstorming was coined by Alex Osborn

Cognitive relativism: (also called epistemic or epistemological relativism) A philosophy that claims the truth or falsity of a statement is relative to a social group.

Critical pedagogy: A teaching approach which attempts to help students question and challenge domination, and the beliefs and practices that dominate. In other words, it is a theory and practice of helping students achieve critical consciousness.

Dunce: A person incapable of learning. The word is derived from the name of the great schoolman, John Duns Scotus, whose works on logic, theology and philosophy were accepted textbooks in the universities from the 14th century.

Experimental analysis of behavior: The name given to the approach to psychology founded by B. F. Skinner. As its name suggests, its foundational principle was the rejection of theoretical analysis, in particular the kinds of learning theory that had grown up in the comparative psychology of the 1920-1950 period, in favor of a more direct approach. It owed its early success to the effectiveness of Skinner's procedure of operant conditioning, both in the laboratory and in behavior therapy.

Habituation: An example of non-associative learning in which there is a progressive diminution of