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Educational Psychology 7080
Psychology of Learning and Learners
Spring Semester, 2005

Instructor Art Russell
Class Times Wednesday – 4:30 PM to 7:00 PM
Class Location Room 184 - College of Education

Contents

Syllbus
Class Schedule
Downloads
Study Guides and Lecture Notes

This site is intended to supplement instruction presented during the Spring 2005 semester.

Syllabus - The syllabus presents my concept for course objectives and requirements. Note - syllabus content is subject to change, although I will attempt to notify class participants whenever a change is made to the syllabus. A copy of the syllabus is available here in Adobe portable document format (PDF). Note - Adobe Acrobat (PDF reader) is available for free from http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html

Quiz Dates:
9 Feb Quiz 1
16 Mar Quiz 2
4 May Final Quiz

Class Schedule - In no case should the notes be seen as fully representative of the topics covered. They are simply notes and as such are incomplete and only representative of the general direction of my thoughts for that class. Expect that there will be variation from the information published here.

Class Dates: Note that these are only approximate dates on which subject material will be covered. Expect deviation from the schedule listed below, as well as from the class syllabus.

Week
Date
Topics
Notes
1
12 Jan
 Introductions
Chapter 13 - Metacognition

First Day of Class!
Group Assignments
2
19 Jan
 Chapter 1 ­ Definitions and Perspectives on Learning
Chapter 2 ­ Learning and the Brain 		 
3
26 Jan

Chapter 9 - Basic Components of Memory
Chapter 10 - Long-Term Memory I: Storage

  
4
2 Feb
 Chapter 11 - Long-Term Memory II: The Nature of Knowledge
Chapter 12 ­ Long-Term Memory III: Retrieval and Forgetting 		 
5
9 Feb
 Quiz 1  
6
16 Feb
 Chapter 3 ­ Behaviorism and Classical Conditioning
Chapter 4 ­ Operant Conditioning		 Copy of Journal Article Due
7
23 Feb
 Chapter 4 ­ Operant Conditioning
Chapter 6 ­ Affects of Aversive Stimuli		  
8
 2 Mar Chapter 7 ­ Social Cognitive Theory  
9
9 Mar
 Spring Break
 No classes
10
16 Mar
 Quiz 2  
11
23 Mar
 Chapter 8 ­ Antecedents and Assumptions of Cognitivism (p. 163-168)
Siegler chapter 		 
12
30 Mar
 Piaget (contd.), Vygotsky

Bjorklund chapter
13
6 Apr
 Chapter 15 ­ Social Processes in Knowledge Construction  
14
13 Apr


Chapter 16 ­ Motivation and Affect

Chapter 17 ­ Cognitive Factors in Motivation

Chapter 18 - Attributions

 Group Presentation #1 Group Presentation #2
15
20 Apr
 Group Presentation #3 Group Presentation #4
16
27 Apr
 Last Day of Class Group Presentation #5 Group Presentation #6
17
Final Quiz 5:00 PM

Downloads - Handouts supporting the class are available here by clicking on the blue highlighted title:

Selected Course Specific Handouts

EPY7080 Syllabus