Research Catalog

Title

Psychology of learning for instruction / Marcy P. Driscoll.

Author

Driscoll, Marcy Perkins.

Publication

Boston : Allyn and Bacon, ©1994.

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Details

Description

xviii, 409 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Subject

• Learning, Psychology of
• Cognitive learning theory
• Teaching
• Teaching
• Education
• teaching
• educating
• Cognitive learning theory
• Learning, Psychology of
• Kognitive Lerntheorie
• Lernpsychologie
• Unterricht
• Leerpsychologie
• Leertheorieën
• Onderwijspsychologie

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 381-401) and index.

Contents

1. Introduction. What is a Theory of Learning? Learning in History. Learning Theory and Instruction. The General Plan and Approach of This Book -- 2. Radical Behaviorism. The Experimental Analysis of Behavior. Principles of Behavior Management. Contributions of Behaviorism to Instruction. The Behavioral Perspective On Learning: Issues and Criticisms -- 3. Cognitive Information Processing. Overview of the Information Processing System. Sensory Memory. Working Memory. Long-Term Memory. Alternative Conceptions of Cognition. The Rhizome (or Semiotic) Metaphor -- 4. Meaningful Reception Learning. Cognitive Structures and Meaningful Learning. Knowledge Acquisition and Retention. Meaningful Learning and Classroom Practice. Meaningful Learning as Assimilation to Schema -- 5. Schema Theory and Mental Models. Schema Theory. Mental Models. Situated Learning and a Question of Transfer -- 6. Cognitive and Knowledge Development. Jean Piaget's Genetic Epistemology. Cognitive Alternatives to Genetic Epistemology. Implications for Instruction of Developmental Theory -- 7. Interactional Theories of Cognitive Development. Bruner: Going beyond the Information Given. Vygotsky: The Social Formation of Mind -- 8. Biological Bases of Learning and Behavior. Ultimate Causes: Evolution and Behavior. Proximate Causes: Neurophysiology of Learning -- 9. The Motivation to Learn. A Brief History of Educational Research on Motivation. Sources of Motivation To Learn. Consequences, Context, and Continuing Motivation. A Model of Motivational Design -- 10. Gagne's Theory of Instruction. Instructional Psychology, Instructional Theories, Instructional Models. Robert M. Gagne and the Conditions of Learning -- 11. Constructivism. Constructivism: A Contrasting Theory -- 12. Toward a Personal Theory of Learning.

ISBN

• 0205150217
• 9780205150212
• 0205139280
• 9780205139286

LCCN

93001562

OCLC

• ocm27975296
• 27975296
• SCSB-2011548

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library