Readings in Educational Psychology

• Preface. 1 Overview 2 Thinking, Language and Learning 1 Learning to Think H F Harlow 2 The Development of Children’s Speech and Thought A A Liublinskaya 3 Words, Meanings and Concepts (1) J B Carroll 4 Language and Concepts E Sapir 5 Language and Mental Development A R Luria and F Ia Yudovich 6 Thought and Word L S Vigotsky 7 The Genetic Approach to the Psychology of Thought 8 The Learning of Principles R M Gagné 3 Learning Theory and Teaching Practice 1 A Perspective On the Relationship Between Learning Theory and Educational Practices E R Hilgard 2 Psychological conceptions of Teaching N L Gage 3 Some Theorems on Instruction J S Bruner 4 methods of Scientific Research in the Psychology of Instruction Z I Kalmykova 5 An Experimental Study in the Formation of Mental Actions P Ia Gal’perin 6 The Stage theory of the Formation of Mental Operations N Talyzina 7 Learning By Discovery: An Interpretation of Recent Research B Y Kersh and M C Wittrock 8 Words, Meanings and Concepts (2) J B Carroll 9 the Psychology of Learning D N Bogoiavlenski and N A Menchinsakaia 10 Reception Learning and the Rote-Meaningful Dimension D P Ausubel 11 Interaction Analysis As a Feedback System in Teacher Preparation E J Amidon and E Powell 4 Some Aspects of Subject Teaching 1 Educational Research and the Learning of Mathematics R M Beard 2 Concept Formation and its Significance in Mathematics Teaching and Syllabus Reform R Skemp 3 The Mastery of Scientific Concepts in School R G Natadze 4 The Mastery of Children of Some Concepts in Physics E A Fleshner 5 Some Problems in the Psychology of History Teaching: Historical Ideas and Concepts E A Peel 6 Reading Skills Re-Examined J Merritt 7 Learning to Think About Reading J F Reid 8 Musical Communication J B Brocklehurst 5 Progamming Teaching 1 The Science of Learning and the Art of Teaching B F Skinner 2 Learning Theory and Programmed Instruction A N Leont’ev and P Ia Gal’perin 3 Teaching Machines in Programmed Instruction M J Tobin 4 The Feasibility of Programmed Television Instruction S K Gryde 5 Strategy and Tactics in Programmed Instruction E Stones 6 C A I: Some Problems and Perspectives L Stolurow 7 An Instructional Systems Approach to Course Development M R Eraut 6 Failure in Learning 1 Handicaps in Learning A Cashdan 2 Perceptual-Motor Difficulties K Wedell 3 Memory Span and Language Proficiency N C Graham 4 Levels of Expectancy and the Self-Fulfilling Prophecy R Rosenthal and L Jacobson 7 The Evaluation of Learning 1 The Validity of Examinations at 16-plus I M Connaughton 2 Reliability and the GCE Examination A S Willmott 3 The Measurement of Learning Outcomes: Some Questions R Glaser 4 The Evaluation of Learning E Stones Name Index. Subject Index.

‘Here at last, is the book we have been waiting for, an introduction to educational psychology which links theory to practice...This is a book for teachers as well as students, well written and well organized...Complex matters are set out clearly, using examples effectively.’ -- Forum‘Mr Stones goes out of his way to bring out the relevance of the experimental study of learning in the practice of teaching.’ -- Educational Review