# Sidney Pressey **Domain:** Educational Psychology / Teaching Machines **Doc Type:** Person Node **Maturity:** Developing **Related:** [[Teaching Machines]], [[Programmed Instruction]], [[Russia and Prussia Kybernetiks]] --- ## Definition American psychologist who developed an early mechanical testing and teaching apparatus in the 1920s. ## Kybernetiks Context Pressey anchors the pre-Skinner American teaching-machine lineage and the automation of response measurement. ## Backlinks [[Russia and Prussia Kybernetiks]] · [[articles/Russia and Prussia Kybernetiks|Russia and Prussia Kybernetiks]]