Sidney L. Pressey, Date of Birth, Date of Death
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Date of Birth: 28-Dec-1888
Date of Death: 01-Jul-1979
Profession: psychologist
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Capricorn 
About Sidney L. Pressey
- Sidney Leavitt Pressey (Brooklyn, New York, December 28, 1888 – July 1, 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. "The first..
- [teaching machine] was developed by Sidney L.
- Pressey...
- While originally developed as a self-scoring machine...
- [it] demonstrated its ability to actually teach".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.
- 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".
- In fact, he had been a cognitive psychologist his entire life, well before the "mythical birthday of the cognitive revolution in psychology".
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