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Key People

Edward L. Thorndike

American psychologist

G. Stanley Hall.

G. Stanley Hall

American psychologist

Jerome Bruner

American psychologist

Lee S. Shulman

American educational psychologist

Édouard Claparède

Swiss educator and psychologist

Charles Hubbard Judd

American psychologist