The learning process and memory are the most frequently stressed sub-topics in educational psychology courses¶

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Currency · newest study 1918 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person

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q2 i? In the surveyed courses, The Learning Process and Memory were each listed as a stressed sub-topic by eleven respondents, with fatigue (7), instinct (8), and habit (8) also common. → Hall-Quest 1918

Evidence¶

Hall-Quest 1918¶

Hall-Quest, Alfred L. (1918). Present Tendencies in Educational Psychology. The Journal of Educational Psychology. https://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ

q2 · i? · associational · r1

Summary of Table II sub-topic counts, where The Learning Process and Memory each appear eleven times. The author's summary states courses embrace "chapters on the learning process with special emphasis on memory processes" with less attention to thinking and reasoning.

"Educational psychology as now taught in the colleges and universities of this country embraces chapters on the learning process with special emphasis on memory processes- included under various terms and involving association, perception, imaging, attention and to a less degree chapters on the higher thought processes of thinking and reasoning."

Discussion¶

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