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Author Evans, E. G. S., author

Title Modern Educational Psychology : an Historical Introduction / E.G.S. Evans
Edition First edition
Published London : Taylor and Francis, 2017

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Description 1 online resource : text file, PDF
Series Routledge Library Editions: Psychology of Education
Routledge Library Editions: Psychology of Education ; Volume 16
Contents Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Original Title Page ; Original Copyright Page ; Table of Contents; Preface; 1 Child development; Introduction; Precursors; Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778); Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi (1746-1827); Friedrich Froebel (1783-1852); The influence of Evolutionism; Charles Darwin (1809-1882); Herbert Spencer (1820-1903); Systematic studies of children; James Sully (1842-1923); Susan Isaacs (1885-1948); Arnold Gesell (1880-1961); John Brodus Watson (1878-1958); Jean Piaget (1896- ); Summary; 2 Theories of personality formation; Introduction
Depth or psychoanalytic theorySocial-field theories; Instinct theory; Allport's theory of functional autonomy; Factoral or structural theories; Conclusions; 3 The psychology of learning; Associationism; Evolutionism; Ebbinghaus's memory experiments; Neurological and physiological studies; Thorndike's animal experiments; Watson and Behaviourism; Learning by insight; 4 Mental testing and measurement; Early interest in the classification of the feebleminded; The infiuence of the early experimental psychologists; The contributions of Sir Francis Galton; Cattell and other early mental tests
Binet and the rise of intelligence testsGroup tests; Theories of mental structure; Spearman's two-factor theory; Thomson's sampling theory; Burt's theory of hierarchical structure; Thurstone's primary mental abilities; The value and limitations of mental tests; Further reading; Bibliography
Summary "Many contemporary issues in educational psychology become clearer when set against the perspective of their historical antecedents. Originally published in 1969, this book provides a survey of the most important ideas and experiments in educational psychology at the time, showing how they have helped to shape our understanding of the factors that influence child life and growth. Dr Evans discusses the subject under four broad headings: Child Development; Theories of Personality Formation; The Psychology of Learning; and Mental Testing and Measurement. The book provided a valuable introduction to educational psychology for education students at the time, and will now be of historical interest to those involved in educational psychology."--Provided by publisher
Subject Educational psychology.
PSYCHOLOGY -- Developmental -- Child.
EDUCATION -- General.
EDUCATION -- Essays.
EDUCATION -- Organizations & Institutions.
EDUCATION -- Reference.
Educational psychology
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781315162959
1315162954