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Gagne suggests that learning tasks for intellectual skills can be organized in a hierarchy according to complexity: stimulus recognition, response generation, procedure following, use of terminology, discriminations, concept formation, rule application, and problem solving.
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- is an American educational psychologist best known for his "Conditions of Learning"
- summarized as the "Gagne Assumption"
- obtained his A.B at Yale in 1937 and his Ph.D. in Psychology from Brown University in 1940
- Between 1949 and 1958, he was director of the perpetual and motor skills laboratory of the U.S Air Force. It was at this time that he began to develop some of his ideas that comprise his learning theory.
- Until his death, he was a professor in the Department of Education Research at Florida State University in Tallahassee. For over 25 years, he has worked to interpret and apply the findings from learning theory/research, primarily to public school learning.
- Today, Gagne is considered an experimental psychologist who was concerned with learning and instruction. Although his earlier work was grounded in the behaviorist tradition, his later work seemed to be influenced by the information processing view of learning and memory.
1916 - 2002