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An edition of Educational psychology (1950)

Educational psychology

Rev. ed.

by Lawrence E. Cole and William F. Bruce

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Educational psychology

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1958

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First Sentence

"To organize the findings of the life sciences and to apply them to the problems of education in a democracy is a discipline calculated to restore a proper feeling of humility."

Table of Contents

PART ONE

1. The Development of Personality: Analysis and Integration

The Varieties of Personality: Styles of Life

Personality: Product of Culture and of Heredity

Case Studies Illustrating the Range of Problems in Educational Psychology

The Influence of the Culture on Human Personality

The Culture—The Great Educator

Comparison of Diverse Cultures and Their Life Styles

American Culture Revealed by Its Community Life

The Secret of the Culture’s Power

Intracultural Differences Enter the Classroom

Summing Up: The Teacher’s Role in the Culture

2. The Physical Growth of the Individual: Total Process and First Stages

Major Characteristics of the Growth Process

Interdependence of the Factors of Development

First Stages of Physical Development: Prenatal, Infancy, and Early Childhood

3. The Physical Growth of the Individual: Later Stages and General Principles

Second Stage of Physical Development: Childhood, the Elementary School Period

Third Stage: Years of Adolescence, Junior and Senior High School

General Principles of Human Development

Over-all Course of Growth and Development

4. The Development of Effective Intelligence

What Is Intelligence?

Complex of Factors Constituting Effective Intelligence

The Attempt to Measure Intelligence

What Can School and Teacher Learn From Intelligence Tests?

Development of Effective Intelligence: General Conclusions

Early Stages of Development of Intelligence

The School Years: Developing Intellectual Skills and Understandings

5. Emotions: Energies of Man

The Power of Emotion in Human Behavior

The Search for an Understanding of the Emotions

Growth toward Emotional Maturity

Stages of Emotional Growth

A Summary, with a Few Points Emphasized

6. Motives: from Drives to Purposes

The Power of Motives

Interaction of Primary and Secondary Needs

Physiological Needs and Drives

Psychological Needs and Purposes

Psychology of Inferiority: Dominance and Submission

Stage-by-Stage Development from Drives to Purposes

7. The Development of the Self into a Mature Person

Constancy and Inconstancy of the Self

The Rise of the Self

Emergence of the Interpersonal Self

The Self System in the Latency Period

Ever-changing Nature of the Adolescent Self

Constancy of the Self-System

Curbing of the Imaginative Self under Social Pressures

Four Selves in One

PART TWO

The Psychology of Learning in a Free Society

8. Learning in a Free Society: Its Nature and Conditions

Dual Nature of the Learning Process

Guided Learning and the Problem of Control

Learning under the Special Conditions of a Free Society

Contrasts in Freedom and Control in Studies of Animal and Human Learning

How Free Are Human Beings in Learning?

Summing Up: Four Generalizations about Freedom and Control

9. Learning by Conditioned Responses

How Conditioning Takes Place

Conditioning and the Problem of Practice

How Conditioned Response Can Help Teaching

Is Learning Specific or General?

10. Learning by Trial and Error

Development of the Trial-and-Error Theory

Role of Freedom in Trial-and-Error Learning

Strength of the Drive in Learning

Law of Effect: How Do Proper Responses Get Selected?

Role of Incentives

Part Played by Random Responses, and by Some Not So Random

Significance of Cues

Inadequacy of Animal-Learning Studies

11. Learning by Insight: Gestalt Psychology

Forty Years of Gestalt Experiments

Gestalt Findings about Learning

Tentative Summary of Three Approaches to Learning

The Teacher’s Need: A Sound Theory of Learning

12. Psychology of Thinking: An Interpretation of Learning

All-Importance of the Perceptual Field

The Organism’s Set—Determining Factor in Confronting Each Situation

Factors Determining What the Perceiver Selects

Objective Factors in Thinking and Perceiving

Distinctive Characteristics of the Thinking—Reasoning Process

A Footnote on Transfer of Training

13. The Creative Imagination: The Expressive Person

Need for Creative Expression

Expressive and Appreciative Life of the School

The Creative, Expressive Process

Evaluation of an Expressive Statement

Guiding Creative Effort: a Dilemma for the Teacher

Conditions That Favor the Creative Process

PART THREE

Putting Psychology to Work in the Schools

14. Studying and Guiding Development

Guidance—the Basic Function of Education

Studying an Individual Child

What We Need to Know of the Individual Child

How Administrators Can Foster Child Study

15. Appraising Development and Learning: Measurement in Education

The Problem of Appraisal

The Value of Tests to Education

Appraisal Tools and Techniques

Desirable Qualities in a Measuring Device

16. Meeting the Barriers to Effective Teaching

Barriers within the American Culture

Barriers Imposed by the Educational System

Barriers Induced by Teacher Personality

False Ways of Adjusting to Barriers

Positive Steps toward Maturity

Edition Notes

Published in: Yonkers-on-Hudson, N.Y
Copyright Date: 1958

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class: 370.15
Library of Congress: LB1051 .C345 1958

The Physical Object

Pagination: v-xiv, [2]-701 p.
Number of pages: 701
Weight: 1.01 pounds

Edition Identifiers

Open Library: OL6244336M
LCCN: 58004502
OCLC/WorldCat: 9570316
annas_archive: cd550c4e469d5d35945836169a4afcca

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Work ID: OL146917W

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