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Jerome Seymour Bruner (October 1, 1915 – June 5, 2016) was an American psychologist who made significant contributions to human cognitive psychology and cognitive learning theory in educational psychology.
1 Feb 2024 · Jerome Bruner believed that children construct knowledge and meaning through active experience with the world around them. He emphasized the role of culture and language in cognitive development, which occurs in a spiral fashion with children revisiting basic concepts at increasing levels of complexity and abstraction.
1 Jun 2024 · Jerome Bruner was an American psychologist and educator who developed theories on perception, learning, memory, and other aspects of cognition in young children that had a strong influence on the American educational system and helped launch the field of cognitive psychology.
Jerome Bruner was a leader of the Cognitive Revolution (pdf) that ended the reign of behaviorism in American psychological research and put cognition at the center of the field. He received his Ph.D. from Harvard in 1941, and returned to lecture at Harvard in 1945, after serving in the U.S. Army’s Intelligence Corps.
9 Jun 2016 · Jerome S. Bruner, whose theories about perception, child development and learning informed education policy for generations and helped launch the modern study of creative problem solving, known...
14 Jun 2016 · Legendary APS William James Fellow Jerome Bruner passed away at the age of 100 on June 5, 2016. His groundbreaking contributions to cognitive, educational, and perceptual psychology have had transformative effects on the field as ….
13 Jul 2016 · Jerome Seymour Bruner helped to launch the cognitive revolution in psychology — the shift from focusing on how stimuli or rewards provoke behaviours (behaviourism) to trying to understand...
Presents an obituary for Jerome S. Bruner, who died in 2016. His long, and productive, life spanned much of the first century of experimental psychology and coincided with the launching of cognitive psychology, a field in which he played an indispensable and pioneering role.
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1 Mei 2015 · As he approaches his 100th birthday, cognitive psychology pioneer Jerome S. Bruner reflects on the past, present and future of psychology. By Kirsten Weir May 2015, Vol 46, No. 5
9 Jun 2016 · Psychologist Jerome Bruner passed away peacefully on June 5 at the age of 100. Bruner received a Ph.D. from Harvard in 1941 and served on the faculty of Social Relations from 1945-1970. His obituary may be found in the New York Times.
