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  2. Granville Stanley Hall (February 1, 1844 – April 24, 1924) was a pioneering American psychologist and educator who earned the first doctorate in psychology awarded in the United States of America at Harvard College in the nineteenth century. His interests focused on human life span development and evolutionary theory.

  3. Apr 20, 2024 · Hall’s theory that mental growth proceeds by evolutionary stages is best expressed in one of his largest and most important works, Adolescence (1904). Despite opposition, Hall, as an early proponent of psychoanalysis, invited Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung to the conferences

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  4. The theory Hall is best known for is his maturation theory of child development. He suggested that children recapitulate (or repeat) evolutionary stages of development as they grow up. Hall claimed that pushing a child ahead of his or her developmental stage may have negative effects.

  5. Jul 27, 2023 · G. Stanley Hall's primary interests were in evolutionary psychology and child development. He was heavily influenced by Ernst Haeckel's recapitulation theory, which suggested that embryonic stages of an organism resemble the stages of development of the organism's evolutionary ancestors, a theory that is today rejected by most evolutionary ...

  6. Granville Stanley Hall (February 1, 1844 – April 24, 1924) was an American pioneering psychologist and educator. His interests focused on childhood development , evolutionary theory, and their applications to education.

  7. Nov 21, 2023 · G. Stanley Hall was the originator of the biologically based theory on psychological development called the biogenetic psychology of adolescence. This theory is known as the...

  8. He developed his influential concept of “genetic psychology,” based on evolutionary theory, and solidified his reputation as a leading educational reformer. In 1904, Hall published Adolescence: Its Psychology and Its Relation to Physiology, Anthropology, Sociology, Sex, Crime, Religion, and Education .

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