Psychological Foundations of Education

Learning and Teaching

B. Claude Mathis, John W. Cotton, Lee Sechrest

• Publisher: Academic Press
• Year: 2013
• Print ISBN:
  9780124801509
• eBook ISBN:
  9781483258164
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Education General

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.

Table of contents

• Front Cover
• Psychological Foundations of Education: Learning and Teaching
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• PREFACE
• Chapter 1. Psychology and Education
• Chapter 2. The Teacher and the Class
• Chapter 3. Learning: The Acquisition of New Responses
• Chapter 4. Learning and the Technology of Education
• Chapter 5. Forgetting and Extinction: The Elimination of Behavior
• Chapter 6. Thinking and Concept Formation
• Chapter 7. The Physical Basis of Behavior
• Chapter 8. Education and the Atypical Child
• Chapter 9. Normative and Biological Studies of Child Development
• Chapter 10. Psychological Processes of Development
• Chapter 11. Motivation and Learning Theory
• Chapter 12. Motivation and Schooling
• Chapter 13. Personality
• Chapter 14. Intelligence Measurements and Their Uses
• Chapter 15. The Assessment of Educational Achievement
• Chapter 16. The Social Psychology of the Classroom
• Chapter 17. Urban Schools and Learning
• Author Index
• Statistical Index
• Subject Index