Jerome Bruner
Jerome Bruner
Jerome Seymour Brunerwas an American psychologist who made significant contributions to human cognitive psychology and cognitive learning theory in educational psychology. Bruner was a senior research fellow at the New York University School of Law. He received a B.A. in 1937 from Duke University and a Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1941. A Review of General Psychology survey, published in 2002, ranked Bruner as the 28th most cited psychologist of the 20th century...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth1 October 1915
CountryUnited States of America
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One seeks to equip the child with deeper, more gripping, and subtler ways of knowing the world and himself.
In the perception of the incongruous stimuli, the recognition process is temporarily thwarted and exhibits characteristics which are generally not observable in the recognition of more conventional stimuli.
Stimuli, however, do not act upon an indifferent organism.