Sidney pressy biography
Sidney Leavitt Pressey was professor of psychology at Ohio State University for many years.
Pressey was born in Brooklyn, New York; his father was a minister in the Congregational Church and his mother was a teacher.!
Sidney L. Pressey
Sidney L. Pressey (Brooklyn, New York, 1888 – 1979) was Professor of Psychology at Ohio State University for many years.
He is famous for having invented a teaching machine many years before the idea became popular.
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[teaching machine] was developed by Sidney L. Pressey... While originally developed as a self-scoring machine... [it] demonstrated its ability to actually teach".[1]
Career
[change | change source]Pressey joined Ohio State in 1921, and stayed there until he retired in 1959.
He continued publishing after retirement, with 18 papers between 1959 and 1967.[2] He was a cognitive psychologist who "rejected a view of learning as an accumulation of responses governed by environmental stimuli in favor of one governed by meaning, intention, and purpose".[2] In fact, he had been a cognitive psychologist his entire life, well before the "mythical birthday of the cognitive revolution in psychology".[3]