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Dewey and Psychology
John Dewwy was a renouned psychologist and phisologist in late 1800s-1900s. One of John Dewwy's frist contributions to the field of Psychology was becoming a teacher and professor. John Dewwy believed that people made decisions in life based on social, cultural, and their own personal experiences. In 1887, Dewey made his first response to the world of Psychology by releasing his educational textbook "Psychology" which was his first method of teahcing the "new" psychology. -
Emotions
In 1894 and 1895, Dewey began to dive deep into the theory of childhood emtion. The origin of this theory was emotion drive survival. However, Dewwy believed that emotions was not just a means of survivial, but was an expression of an experience. Dewey beleived that everything in one's enviroment created the feeling of being sad, mad, or happy. -
The "Reflex Arc"
In the 1890's, Dewey defamed the idea that human's natural response to stimuli was the sole response. Prior to Dewey's theory, it was believed that mankind responsed to direct stimuli. The reflex arc requires a passive stimulous to acheive an active response; however, Dewey theorized that in order to have an active response, one must be seeking out the origin of stimuli, which does not make it a passive stimulous. This study in the 1890's revolutionised the theory. -
Development of Experience
Dewwy's biggest influence in developing his theories was Charles Darwin and Wiliams James. Darwin believed that "survival of the fittest" and evelution would trim out the weak and William beleive we responsed to indirect stimulous, (such as "This is sad, so now I am sad". Dewey began to develop his theory that experience is just linear, but rather a gathering of backround, culture, social class, and education. All of these required to make someone resposne to stimuli.