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

Instructor Art Russell
Class Times Monday / Wednesday - 12:00 - 3:10PM
Class Location Room 180 - 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:
22 June Quiz 1
11 July Quiz 2
27 July Quiz 3 / 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
13 June
 Course Overview
Chapter 13 – Metacognition
Chapter 1 – Definitions and Perspectives on Learning
Chapter 2 – Learning and the Brain
Chapter 9 - Basic Components of Memory
Chapter 10 - Long-Term Memory I: Storage
Chapter 11 - Long-Term Memory II: The Nature of Knowledge
Chapter 12 – Long-Term Memory III: Retrieval and Forgetting

First Day of Class!
Group Assignments
15 June
 Synaptic Pruning
2
20 June
 False Memories
22 June
Quiz 1
3
27 June
 Chapter 3 – Behaviorism and Classical Conditioning
Chapter 4 – Operant Conditioning		 Final Article Approval Date
29 June
  
4
4 July
Independence Day - No Classes!
6 July
 Chapter 6 – Affects of Aversive Stimuli
Chapter 7 – Social Cognitive Theory		  
5
11 July
Quiz 2
13 July
 Chapter 8 - Antecedents and Assumptions of Cognitivism (p. 163-168)
Piaget - Siegler chapter
Vygotsky - Bjorklund chapter
Chapter 16 - Motivation and Affect
Chapter 17 - Cognitive Factors in Motivation 		 
6
18 July
  
20 July
 Group Presentation #1
7
25 July

Last Day of Class

Group Presentations #'s 2 - 6

27 July
Quiz 3 / Final Quiz
 12:30 PM

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

Selected Course Specific Handouts

EPY7080 Syllabus