Psychological Foundations of Education
Learning and Teaching
Published on 17. September 2013
796 pages
978-1-4832-5816-4 (ISBN)
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Psychological Foundations of Education presents some of the principles of psychology that are relevant to learning and teaching. It presents an alternative answer to the problem of the bifurcation of general and educational psychology in the curriculum of teacher preparation. While the solution is provisional and has obvious imperfections, it is offered in the hope that it may stimulate discussion of the problem and other solutions and/or explicit justifications for past practice. Key concepts discussed include teachers' attitudes and behavior, different types of learning, technology in education, forgetting and extinction, child development, and intelligence measurements. Also covered are the assessment of educational achievement, the social psychology of the classroom, and education in urban schools. This text should have a variety of uses in classes where students are preparing for teaching. It was written specifically for those situations in which the prospective teacher is introduced to psychology through a one- or two-semester integrated sequence.
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Preface1. Psychology and Education What Is Psychology? The Purposes of Psychological Study How Psychological Knowledge Grows A Modern View of the Moon Illusion What Is Educational Psychology? Summary Suggested Readings References2. The Teacher and the Class Teachers' Attitudes about Behavior The Role Characteristics of the American Teacher The Personality of the Teacher Learning in the Classroom and Effective Teaching Summary Suggested Readings References3. Learning: The Acquisition of New Responses Acquiring Information or Developing Habits? Conditioning Motivation and Learning All-or-None Learning versus Gradual Learning The Problem Discrimination Learning Extinction The Discrimination Learning Paradigm Paired-Associates Learning Reinforcement Some Typical Reinforcements Secondary Reinforcers Behavior Modification: Reinforcement Principles in Human Behavior Effect of Amount of Reinforcement on Speed of Response Effect of Amount of Reinforcement on Quality of Performance Delay of Reinforcement Delay of Informative Feedback Latent Learning Response Prompting Stimulus Generalization Transfer of Training Definition of Transfer of Training Effects of Stimulus and Response Similarity upon Transfer Effects of Number of Trials during Training upon Transfer Transfer of Structure-Advanced Organizers Learning to Learn and Learning Sets Several Aspects of Verbal Learning Difficulty of Learning as a Function of Task Length Mnemonic Devices Effect of Degree of Meaningfulness upon Learning Incidental Learning Effects of Similarity within Parts of a List Thinking and Problem Solving The Mediation Hypothesis A Representative Experiment on Problem Solving Reversal versus Nonreversal Shifts as Related to Mediational Responses 99 Transfer of Mediating Responses in Complex Problems Transposition Discovery Methods and Learning by Rules A Model of School Learning Summary Suggested Readings References4. Learning and the Technology of Education Automated Instruction and Programmed Learning The Programming of Instruction Programmed Instruction and the Learner Defining Objectives in Learning Learning: Theory and Application Computer-Assisted Instruction Technology and Innovations in the Curriculum Reading Mathematics Instruction Instruction in Other Areas Science, Technology, and Education Summary Suggested Readings References5.
