When it comes to education, many people have different opinions about how children should learn things. A psychologist named Jerome Bruner had his own theory regarding education. Bruner is a very intelligent man himself, who went to school to study and learn about many different types of psychology to completely understand human beings to the best of his knowledge. He tried to learn about cognitive growth and learning so he could help children in the future. This is what helped him develop his theory into what it is today. Jerome Seymour Bruner was born on October 1, 1915. Jerome earned a bachelor's degree in psychology in 1937. In 1939 he continued his education to a master's degree and then a doctorate in 1941. Bruner made many contributions to different types of psychology such as: Cognitive psychology and cognitive learning theory in educational psychology. Additionally, he was interested in working with the history and general philosophy of education. Among everyone in the world, Bruner seems to be one of the pioneers of the cognitive psychology movement in the United States. This is because he studied sensation and perspective as active rather than passive processes. 1947, Jerome publishes Value and Necessity as Organizing Factors in Perception. This was a study he did for poor and rich children and they had to estimate the size of coins or wooden discs the size of nickels, pennies, dimes, half dollars and quarters. The result showed that both poor and rich children overestimate the size of coins because poor children do not have money frequently enough to be able to memorize its size and rich children are so used to having money that they do not pay attention to the size in any case. Experiments like this push psychologists to challenge themselves in the study of the organism's internal interpretation and response
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