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.
Drawing on the tradition of John Dewey and William James, the authors offer a concise overview of psychological theories and their applications to education, while managing to maintain the distinction between the two disciplines.