Psychology and Education

I. Preliminary Considerations.- 1. What Is Educational Psychology?.- 2. The Quality of United States Schools: An International Comparison with Attention to Values.- II. Psychological Viewpoints and Related Paradigms of Learning.- 3. Functionalism: Goal-Directed Activity, Purposivity, Dewey’s Pragmatism, and Modern Feedback Theory.- 4. Associationism: The Experience of Contiguity between Events and Its Molding of Thought, Perception, and Feeling.- 5. Russian Dialectical-Materialist Psychology: Classical Conditioning and Its Relation to Mentation and Language.- 6. Behaviorism: Instrumental Conditioning and Programmed Instruction.- 7. Gestalt Psychology: Perceptual Illusions and Insight-Thinking.- 8. Freudian Psychoanalysis: Therapy as Reeducation.- 9. Criticisms of Psychoanalysis by Jung, Adler, and Sullivan: Implications for Education.- 10. Cognitive Psychology: An Emphasis on the Mind.- III. Professional Aspects of Teaching.- 11. Instructional Methods and Nomenclature.- 12. Do’s and Don’ts of Effective Teaching.- 13. Fundamentals of Testing.- 14. Fundamentals of Reading.- 15. Epilogue and Prologue: A Look to the Future.- References.- About the Authors.