Thorndike was born in 1874. 1903 The publication of Educational Psychology marks the birth of educational psychology as an independent discipline. The pioneer of scientific educational psychology, the first psychologist to systematically discuss educational psychology. Thorndike's research on educational psychology takes learning psychology as the core, and his three laws of learning (the law of effect, the law of preparation and the law of practice) and the theory of individual differences have had a far-reaching impact on the research on educational psychology.