Educational psychology is a famous branch of psychology that minutely studies the pattern of human learning and intelligence and their relations with other cognitive factors. The experimental and practical work on association and sensory activity by the well-known English anthropologist, Sir Francis Galton and the American psychologist G. Stanley Hall, who wrote the famous book ‘The Contents of Children’s Minds, which presented the groundwork for educational psychology (1883). The American educator and psychologist Edward Lee Thorndike, who designed methods to measure and examine child’s intelligence and learning capability, was the foremost leader in the field of educational psychology.
Edward Lee Thorndike was a psychologist who made noteworthy contributions to the field of education. In the early 1900s, he published numerous articles in The Journal of Educational Psychology. His research mainly focused on how different people learn and how to use that information to advance teaching methods. He is widely known for his theory of instrumental learning, Learning Management System, which describes how people can acquire new behaviours through the trial-and-error. Thorndike’s work helped in the foundation for modern educational psychology, one of the most persuasive psychologists of all time.
