Question

Curriculum should foster the development of problem-solving skills through the processes of inquiry and discovery. Who is behind this advocacy?

• A. Jerome Bruner
• B. Jean Piaget
• C. Sigmound Freud
• D. Kurt Lewin

Answer 1

Answer:

A. Jerome Bruner

Jerome Bruner was a leader of the Cognitive Revolution (pdf) that ended the reign of behaviorism in American psychological research and put cognition at the center of the field. He received his Ph. D. from Harvard in 1941, and returned to lecture at Harvard in 1945, after serving in the U.S. Army's Intelligence Corps.