Educational Psychology

This Course is Taught By:

Iona Lister

Her Background: Licentiate, Speech and Language Therapy, UK, Diploma in Advanced Counselling Skills.

She has been a clinician and manager of health services for fifteen years, and a trainer for UK-based medical charities, focusing on psychosocial issues, mental health disorders, and also the promotion of communication skills for people in helping roles. As a freelance writer, she contributes articles for magazines, has written four published books, and has written course material on coaching and counselling related fields.


Lesson Structure: Educational Psychology BPS105

Introduction - Development & Learning Theory
Piagete€™s Theory of Cognitive Development
Schemes
Assimilation and Accommodation
Equilibration
Piaget’s Stages of Development.
Behavioural Learning
The Evolution of Behavioural Theories of Learning
Thorndike’s Theory of the Law of Effect
Skinner’s Theory of Operant Conditioning
Principles of Behavioural Learning; Reinforcers
Positive and Negative Reinforcement
The Premack Principle
Information Processing
Information Processing Theory
A Model of Information Processing
Perception
Gestalt Psychology
Attention
Short-Term Memory
Long-Term Memory
Division of Long-Term Memory
Memory Retention & Loss
Remembering and Forgetting
Interference
Inhibition and Facilitation
Primacy and Recency
Learning Strategies
Individual Needs
Effective Instruction
The QAIT Model
Quality of Instruction
Appropriate Levels of Instruction
Incentive;Time
Between-Class Ability Grouping
Within Class Ability Grouping
Effective Use of Ability Groups
Mastery Learning
Outcomes-Based Education
Individualised Instruction
Constructivist Learning
What is the Constructivist View
Top Down or Bottom Up Processing
Generative Learning
Discovery Learning
Reception Learning
Activating Prior Knowledge
Motivation
Intrinsic Motivation
Extrinsic Motivation
Factors Affecting Motivation
Motivational Theories
Behavioural Learning Theory
Human Needs Theory; Dissonance Theory
Cognitive Dissonance Theory
Personality Theory
Attribution Theory Expectancy Theory;
Improving Motivation
Nurturing Interest/Curiosity
Providing Incentive to Learn

Learning Goals: Educational Psychology BPS105

Discuss theories of development and learning.
Explain behavioural theories of learning
Describe how Information Processing Model Works
Describe processes involved in memory loss and retention
Describe different methods of effective instruction to cater for individual needs.
Explain the relevance of constructivist learning in education
Differentiate definitions of motivation and the application of motivation to learning

Practicals:

Describe Piaget's theory of stages of development
Observe the behaviour of children in the following age groups (0-2yrs, 2-7yrs, 7-11yrs, 11-18yrs) and note down differences in the way they interact with one another.
Interview two adults who have one or more children over the age of 5 years
Ask them what they think about using punishment in raising children.
Ask them if, when and where punishment might be used: how it should be used, and what results can be expected by using it in those situations.
Make notes of what they say.
Consider how much (if any) of their comment might be influenced by their own behavioural conditioning; and how much by reason.
Why would one person in a classroom forget something that others remember; and remember different things that others forget?


This course is accredited by ACCPH and allows you to join as a professional member after completion. Membership allows you to add the letters MACCPH after your name (post-nominals).