Educational Psychology

A topic within Applied Psychology, itself one of 9 topics in that field and part of Psychology.

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The Contribution of Psychology to Education

Edward L. Thorndike

Argues education should be treated as an experimental science, with teaching methods judged by their measured effect on learning rather than by tradition or intuition, opening address of the first issue of the Journal of Educational Psychology.

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The Use of Advance Organizers in the Learning and Retention of Meaningful Verbal Material

David P. Ausubel

Shows that giving learners a short, abstract passage introducing unfamiliar material before they study it in detail improves retention, evidence for the claim that new learning is anchored to existing cognitive structure rather than absorbed independently.

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Reading on Educational Psychology

The Contribution of Psychology to Education

The Use of Advance Organizers in the Learning and Retention of Meaningful Verbal Material

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