Granville Stanley Hall (Noun)
Meaning
United States child psychologist whose theories of child psychology strongly influenced educational psychology (1844-1924).
Classification
Nouns denoting people.
Examples
- Granville Stanley Hall's work on child development had a lasting impact on the field of education.
- Granville Stanley Hall was one of the first psychologists to study and write about adolescence.
- Granville Stanley Hall believed that children's behavior was determined by their evolutionary history and their genetic makeup.
- Granville Stanley Hall argued that formal education should begin much later in a child's life than was typical at the time.
- Granville Stanley Hall's theory of recapitulation suggested that children repeat the stages of human evolution as they develop.