DeepDyve eBooks - Educational psychology.

Garth, Thomas R.

Pages: 1 –12

Educational psychology is the study of the psychological laws, principles, and facts underlying the process of education. While it is concerned with education in all its phases, it has to do particularly with how the education of the individual is brought about. Consequently, it describes a...

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The problem of original nature.

Garth, Thomas R.

Pages: 13 –25

Man's capacity for learning, his susceptibility to modification, and his ready disposition to change his ways make him the most educable of all organisms. Were it not for this characteristic plasticity, members of homo sapiens could not have adapted themselves, each in his generation, to the...

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Heredity in man.

Garth, Thomas R.

Pages: 26 –47

The original nature, which we have been considering, must be inherited. It cannot be acquired through experience of learning, although in many instances it can be changed. We have noted briefly the raw material with which learning starts. In the lower animals we find reflexes, in some instincts,...

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The human organism.

Garth, Thomas R.

Pages: 48 –71

We have considered what the original nature of man is and how it is inherited. The mechanism thus inherited is ready to function at birth, but from that time on the processes of growth and learning change it. They produce such profound changes that eventually, on the surface of things, there...

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Feeling and emotion.

Garth, Thomas R.

Pages: 72 –89

For many years feeling and emotion have occupied the attention of psychologists, but it is only recently that the facts about them began to be clearly discerned. Before that the development and modification of the child's feeling and emotional life received little scientific attention. Parents...

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Motivation.

Garth, Thomas R.

Pages: 90 –108

"Nothing walks with aimless feet." This is a poetic statement. Is it psychologically sound? As one looks out on the world about him he observes people engaged in various kinds of activities. One man is rushing to his place of business, another is buying merchandise, another is behind the bank...

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Learning.

Garth, Thomas R.

Pages: 109 –142

Learning is change. It is a modification that is relatively permanent. All the higher animals can be made to learn. Those in the lower end of the scale are capable of a fleeting change, but we do not regard fleeting changes as learning, for permanence to a degree is requisite before the change...

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Learning, remembering, and forgetting.

Garth, Thomas R.

Pages: 143 –160

Remembering is merely recalling something that has been learned, with the accompanying recognition of the fact. You are aware of the recall, and its familiarity is of varying degrees of certainty. Memory has four phases: (1) fixation (learning), (2) retention, (3) recall, and (4) recognition....

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Observation, meaning, and generalization.

Garth, Thomas R.

Pages: 161 –175

Observation involves attention and perception. A young infant at first attends without perceiving. Attention is essential to learning, and for this reason the teacher must understand how to secure and hold the attention of students. We are always attending to something; inattention does not...

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Imagination and thinking.

Garth, Thomas R.

Pages: 176 –196

Imagination is variously called mental play, manipulation, and invention, but actually it is merely a process of changing the form of some experience. It is putting old things together in new ways, as a piece-quilt is made by putting together, in new patterns, little scraps of cloth which had...

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