A Teacher's Guide to the Psychology of

The first edition of this book was one of the first to present the ideas of the psychology of learning in an integrated text. This fully revised edition includes the psychological research into children's learning and intelligence which has taken place over the past decade.

Michael Howe is Professor of Psychology at Exeter University. He is the author of many books (both trade and academic) and is a well-known expert on child geniuses.

Preface

ix

Introduction: the beginnings of human learning

1

(10)

Learning in the earliest years

3

(2)

Language and human learning

5

(6)

Preparing for learning at school

11

(12)

Learning at home and learning at school

11

(4)

Reading

15

(4)

Learning in modern life

19

(4)

Mental activities and human learning

23

(20)

The effects of mental processing

23

(4)

Processing language-based information

27

(2)

Further investigations of mental processing

29

(4)

Personal relevance

30

(2)

Intention to learn

32

(1)

Mental processing and children's learning

33

(4)

Aiding learning by structuring information

37

(2)

Using a narrative strategy

37

(2)

Practical learning procedures based on mental images

39

(3)

Conclusion

42

(1)

Rehearsing and practising

43

(12)

Rehearsing

43

(1)

Investigating the effects of rehearsal

44

(2)

Making use of rehearsal skills

46

(1)

The consequences of rehearsing

47

(1)

Self-testing activities

48

(2)

Practising and its consequences

50

(2)

Conclusion

52

(3)

How existing knowledge aids learning

55

(32)

An experiment on sentence recall

56

(3)

Learning and knowing in children and adults

59

(4)

Adult-Child comparisons when differences in knowledge and strategies are absent

60

(2)

Using titles to help access relevant knowledge

62

(1)

Negative influences of a learner's existing knowledge

63

(4)

Distortions caused by previous knowledge

65

(2)

Advance organizers for classroom learning

67

(2)

Strategies for learning unfamiliar topics

69

(7)

Can training be effective?

74

(2)

The mental representation of knowledge

76

(11)

Hierarchical representation of items and their properties

78

(4)

Scripts and schemas

82

(5)

Intelligence and human abilities

87

(24)

Intelligence testing in practice

87

(2)

How useful are intelligence test scores as practical predictors?

89

(4)

Is intelligence largely unchangeable?

93

(3)

Intelligence as a fundamental quality of the mind

96

(1)

Intelligence and human learning

97

(3)

Influences that contribute to high capabilities

100

(4)

The assumed roles of innate gifts and talents

104

(2)

Critical periods

106

(5)

How motivation affects learning

111

(12)

Motivation and success at school

111

(2)

Achievement motivation

113

(2)

Being in control

115

(5)

The effects of altered locus of control

118

(1)

Locus of control and student mastery

119

(1)

Pawns and origins

119

(1)

Self-efficacy

120

(1)

Success and failure in the classroom

121

(1)

Some conclusions

122

(1)

Reading, comprehension and learning

123

(18)

Helping students to understand

124

(2)

Coding and comprehending

126

(1)

The skills of comprehension

127

(5)

Monitoring

128

(2)

Generating and evaluating hypotheses

130

(2)

Teaching comprehension strategies

132

(2)

Stage One

132

(1)

Stage Two

133

(1)

Stage Three

134

(1)

Evaluating comprehension training

134

(5)

The training studies

136

(3)

Some conclusions

139

(2)

Extending writing skills

141

(14)

From conversation to written communication

141

(1)

Note-taking

142

(2)

Effects of repeated recall attempts

144

(2)

Note-taking style and student learning

146

(2)

Using pre-prepared notes

148

(1)

Learning to make notes

149

(1)

Making summaries

150

(1)

Learning other skills that aid writing: remedial activities

151

(4)

References

155

(10)

Index

165

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