Educational psychology : developing learners / Jeanne Ellis Ormrod

By:

ORMROD, Jeanne Ellis

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New Jersey : Merrill, c2000.Edition: 3rd edDescription: xviii, 683p. : ill. (some col.) ; 25cmISBN:

0-13-013648-4

Subject(s):

Educational psychology. Psychology, Educational

DDC classification:

22nd ed. 370.15 ORM

Summary: The last decade has seen important changes of emphasis within general psychology that make its theories more pertinent to education. Ten years ago the dominant psychology was that of Hull and his followers. Their emphasis on stimulus-response connections, reduction of primary drives, and reinforcement, while useful for explaining the learning of single tasks in the laboratory, seemed not to be very enlightening.

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Includes bibliography and index

The last decade has seen important changes of emphasis within general psychology that make its theories more pertinent to education. Ten years ago the dominant psychology was that of Hull and his followers. Their emphasis on stimulus-response connections, reduction of primary drives, and reinforcement, while useful for explaining the learning of single tasks in the laboratory, seemed not to be very enlightening.

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