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Educational Psychology, 2nd edition

Published by Pearson (January 20, 2009) © 2010

  • Robert J. Sternberg
  • Wendy M. Williams
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Shows Readers How to Use Text Principles in the Classroom
  • Expert Teacher Interviews illustrate the classroom application of chapter material.
  • The Flexible Expert feature provides examples of solutions—analytical, creative, and practical—for daily challenges both students and teachers face in the classroom.
  • Implications for Teaching illustrate the strategies expert teachers use in the classroom, using specific concepts of educational psychology.

Encourages Reflective Thinking

  • Thinking Questions—Thinking Analytically, Thinking Creatively, and Thinking Practically—appear throughout each chapter to encourage readers to think deeply about chapter concepts.
  • Constructing Your Own Learning activities help readers understand constructivism by using the theory themselves to build upon what they have read in the text.
  • Forum debates illustrate contested educational issues —such as homogenous versus heterogeneous grouping—and show that there are middle-ground positions between extreme views of the issues.
  • Becoming an Expert: Questions and Problems, grouped by elementary, middle, and high school settings, invite readers to apply chapter concepts to the problems of classroom practice.

Emphasizes Diversity, Helping Prepare Teachers for the Classrooms of Today and Tomorrow

  • Guidelines for providing support for gifted students and students with disabilities are presented in Chapter 5: Individual Differences.
  • The educational implications of socioeconomic, cultural, gender and linguistic diversity are discussed in detail in Chapter 6: Group Differences.

  • Thoroughly revised with current, valid research to reflect the field of educational psychology as it currently exists
  • Many more cross-cultural and multicultural examples to help teachers prepare for today’s classrooms
  • Hundreds of new and updated references, based on valid & current research

1. Becoming an Expert

The "Thinking" Triangle

What Is An Expert Teacher?

What Do We Know About Expert Learners?

How Educational Psychology Helps Create Expert Teachers and Learners

 

I. HUMAN DEVELOPMENT

 

2. Cognitive Development

 

Cognitive Development: Concepts for Teaching

Piaget's Stage Theory of Cognitive Development

Vygotsky's Sociocultural Theory of Cognitive Development

Information Processing Theories: Examining Learning and Memory Skills

Three Major Approaches to Cognitive Development: A Comparison

Theory of Mind

Language Development

Brain Development

 

3. Personal, Gender, Social, and Moral Development

 

Why Understanding Personal, Gender, Social, and Moral Development Is Important to Teachers

Personal Development: Becoming Unique

Temperament

Sexual and Gender Development: Acquiring Gender Roles

Social Development: Learning to Interact with Others

Moral Development: Acquiring a Sense of Right and Wrong

Identifying, Understanding, and Managing Developmental Risks

 

II. HUMAN DIVERSITY

 

4. Individual Differences: Intelligence, Cognitive and Learning Styles, and Creativity

 

Why Understanding Individual Differences Is Important to Teachers

Understanding Individual Differences in Intelligence

Current Educational Controversies in Intelligence

Cognitive Styles and Learning Styles

Understanding Individual Differences in Creativity

 

5. Individual Differences: Exceptional Children

 

Why Understanding Exceptional Children Is Important to Teachers

Teaching Exceptional Children

Extremes of Intellectual Functioning: Giftedness.

Extremes of Intellectual Functioning: Mental Retardation

Challenges to Learning

 

6. Group Differences: Socioeconomic Status, Ethnicity, Gender, and Language

 

Why Understanding Group Differences Is Important to Teachers

Socioeconomic Diversity

Ethnic and Racial Diversity

Gender Diversity

Language Diversity

Multicultural Education

 

III. THINKING, LEARNING, AND MEMORY

 

7. Behavioral Approaches to Learning

 

Why Understanding Behavioral Learning Is Important to Teachers

Learning by Classical Conditioning

Learning by Operant Conditioning

Social Learning

Cognitive-Behavioral Modification

 

8. Cognitive Approaches to Learning

 

Why Understanding Cognitive Approaches to Learning Is Important to Teachers

The Standard Memory Model

Alternative Models of Memory

Retrieving Information

Constructivist Approaches.

 

9. Thinking: Concept Formation, Reasoning, and Problem Solving

 

Why Understanding Thinking Is Important to Teachers

Concept Formation

Reasoning

Problem Solving

Transfer

Decision Making

Teaching for Thinking

 

IV. MOTIVATION AND INSTRUCTION

 

10. Motivating Students

 

Why Understanding Motivation Is Important to Teachers

Intrinsic and Extrinsic Motivation

Four Ways to Understand Motivation

The Role of Arousal Level

The Role of Student Goals

The Role of Student Needs

The Role of Student Attributions and Beliefs

Motivating Challenging Students

 

11. Classroom Management

 

Why Understanding Classroom Management Is Important to Teachers

How Effective Teachers Manage Their Students

Developing and Implementing Rules and Procedures

Maintaining Control and Preventing Problems

Special Approaches to Classroom Management

 

12. Classroom Teaching

 

Why Understanding Classroom Teaching Is Important to Teachers.

Principles of Teacher-Centered Teaching

Principles of Student-Centered or Constructivist Teaching

 

V. ASSESSMENT

 

13. Standardized Testing

 

Why Understanding Standardized Testing Is Important to Teachers

What Are Standardized Tests?

Types of Standardized Tests

Assessing Test Quality

Interpreting Standardized Test Scores

Issues and Concerns in Standardized Testing

 

14. Classroom Assessments

 

Why Understanding Classroom Assessments Is Important to Teachers

Traditional Assessments

Authentic Assessment

Grading and Reporting

 

References

 

Name Index

 

Subject Index

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