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Wrote on the advantages conferred by schooling and the influence of the home on learning.
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Discussed some educational psychology topics, for example: the kinds of education appropriate to different kinds of people, the training of the body and the cultivation of phychomotor skills, etc.
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He urged that teachers take into account individual differences, suggesting that they take time to study the unique characteristics of their students.
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He wrote about individual differences and the need to adjust instruction for all students.especially for the "feeble minded", the deaf and the blind.
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He taught that understanding, not memory, is the goal of instruction.
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He wrote about what we now call "schema theory", advocating a cognitive psychology featuring the role of past experience and schemata in learning and retention.
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James´s version of psychology science argued against the elementalism of the Europeans, giving us the notion that consciousness was continuos a stream and not easily divisible. He recognized that psychologists could not tell educators precisely what to do.
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Founder of the child-study movement that James worried about, was a prometer of psychology in ways that James must have found distasteful. Is remembered for founding the first English language psychology journal, the "American Journal of Psychology".
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Father of educational psychology. Wrote "Educational Psychology". He researched about individual differences and devise different kinds of tests to measure the intelectual capacity and aptitudes.
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Dewey and his colleagues at the University of Chicago founded the functionalist school of psychology, a way of thinking about psychology that was strongly influenced by Darwin.
He felt that the individual´s internal processes must be understood.
