Semester Third: B.S. in Special Education University of Karachi

Major: EDUCATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY

Course Code: 411

Credit Hours: 03

 

COURSE DESCRIPTIONS

This course aims to provide students with a basic understanding of the dynamics of human learning and motivation. It also focuses on different aspects of individual differences and the mechanism of information processing through which human being making things remember or forgotten.

 

ADVANCE ORGANIZER

1. Identify the implications that studying educational psychology has for classroom practice.
   
2. Explain how reflective teaching uses educational psychology to improve professional decision making,
   
3. Explain how theories define the process of learning
   
4. Differentiate among various factors which causing differences between learners
   
5. Explain learner motivation on the basis of behavioral, cognitive and humanistic theories
   

 

UNIT – 1:    Introduction

1. Definition and Concept of Educational Psychology
   
2. Scope of Educational Psychology
   
3. Educational Psychology and Instructional Decision Making
   

 

UNIT – 2:    Individual Differences

1. IQ, Cognitive Style and Creativity
   
2. Socio-economic Status, Cultural and Gender Differences
   

 

UNIT – 3:    The Psychology of Learning

1. Definition and Concept of Learning
   
2. Bloom's Learning Typologies
   
   1. Taxonomy
      
   2. The Gagne and Briggs Typology
      
3. Learning Theories
   
   1. Pavlov and Classical Conditioning
      
   2. Thorndike and Instrumental Conditioning
      
   3. Skinner and Operant Conditioning
      
   4. Bandura and Social Learning Theory
      
   5. Cognitive and Constructivist Views of Learning
      

      (Ausbel, Bruner and Vygotsky)
      

4. Conditions of learning
   

 

UNIT – 4:    Neo-cognitive model

1. Information Processing in Learning and Memory
   
2. Associations and Constructivist Views of Memory
   
3. Information Processing Models
   
4. Rote Learning
   
5. Meaningful Verbal Learning
   

 

UNIT – 5:    Motivation

1. Basic Concepts of Motivation
   
   1. Behaviorist Theory
      
   2. Need Theories
      
   3. Atkinson's Achievement Motivation Theory
      
   4. Attribution Theory
      
   5. Intrinsic Motivation Theory
      
   6. Establishing and Maintaining Students' Success Expectations
      
2. Helping Students to value Learning
   

 

Recommended Books

 

1. Eggfen, Paul & Don Kauchak: (1999)
   "Educational Psychology: Windows on Classroom" (4^th Ed.) Merrill,
   
2. Biehler, Robert F. and Jack Snowman (1990) "Psychology Applied to Teaching (6^th Edition). Houghton Mifflin Company.
   
3. Gage, N.L. and David C. Berliner (1991) "Educational Psychology" (5^th Ed.) Houghton Mifflin Company).
   
4. Good, Thomas L. and Jere Brophy: (1995)
   Contemporary Educational Psychology. (5^th Ed). Longman.
   
5. Charlton, Tony and Kenneth David. (1993)
   Managing Misbehavior in Schools (2^nd ed.) Routledge.
   
6. Robert R. Reilly and Ernest L. Lewis:
   "Educational Psychology". McMillan,
   
7. Dale H. Schunk: (1991)
   Learning Theories: An Educational Perspective. (2^nd ed). Merrill
   
8. Santrock J.W. (2001)
   Educational Psychology". (International Edition). McGraw Hill.