INTRO

• first stage meaning of psychology

  study of the soul
• second stage meaning

  study of the mind
• third stage meaning

  study of consciousness (William James 1890)
• fourth stage meaning

  study of total behavior
• unlearned processes

  reflexes, physiological processes, instincts
• launched the first psychology book

  william james
• first psychology textbook

  principles of psychology (1890)
• gave series of lecture "talks to teachers" and discussed the application of psychology to educating children

  william james
• importance of observing, teaching and learning in classrooms for improving education

  william james
• first major educational psychology lab in US at University of Chicago

  john dewey
• The child is an active learner, children learn best by doing

  john dewey
• Education should focus on whole child and emphasize the child’s adaptation to the environment

  john dewey
• Children deserve to have competent education

  john dewey
• one of the influential psychologists-educators who pushed for a competent education for all children 

  john dewey
• Emphasis on assessment and measurement and promoted the scientific underpinnings of learning

  edward lee thorndike
• Schooling’s most important task is to hone chine’s reasoning skills

  edward lee thorndike
• Promoted the idea that educational psychology must have a scientific base and focus on measurement

  edward lee thorndike
• Act or experience that has a formative effect on the mind, character or physical ability of an individual

  education
• process by which society, thru schools, colleges and universities deliberately transmits its cultural heritage

  education
• formalization of the teaching and learning processes which is being carried out in schools, colleges and universities

  education
• what we received through learning

  education
• Education is the external process of superior adjustment of the physically and mentally developed, free, conscious, human being of God as manifested in the intellectual, emotional and volitional environment of man

  herman horne
• • Pragmatist
  • education is a process of continuous reconstruction of experience with the purpose of widening and deepening its social content while at the same time, the individual gains control of methods involved

  john dewey
• Education consists essentially in preparing man for what he must be and for what he must do here below in order to attain the sublime end for which he was created

  pope pius xi
• The subject of education is man; whole and entire, soul united to body in unity of nature, with all his faculties, natural and supernatural, such as right reason and revelation show him to be

  pope pius xi
• Scientific study of the behavior of living organisms with special attention to human behavior

  psychology
• Systematized body of knowledge based on truths and facts

  science
• Reaction or responses to stimuli

  behavior
• behaviors

  overt/covert

  rational/irrational

  voluntary/involuntary

  conscious/unconscius
• • Father of psychology
  • opened the institute for experimental psychology at the University of Leipzig in Germany in 1879

  wilhelm wundt
• Father of modern philosophy

  rene descartes
• mind is the source of ideas and thoughts, the body is the machine-like structure to be studied and understood

  rene descartes
• believed in both nativism and rationalism

  rene descartes
• believes that all knowledge is innate or inborn

  nativist
• believes that to gain knowledge, one rationalizes or discovers the truth thru experience and the operation of mind

  rationalist
• struggles to rationalize his own existence, trying to prove that he was real

  rene descartes
• Specializes in understanding teaching and learning in educational settings

  educational psychology
• Describes and explains the learning experience of an individual from birth to old age

  crow and crow
• Science of education

  peel
• Deals with teaching and learning

  skinner