Educational Psychology for Non-Teachers

Catalog description

Foundation course on how psychology has viewed the construct of learning over the past 100 years, including views from more recent cognitive and neurobiological perspectives. Includes, but is not limited to, the exploration of the following topics: epistemological orientations to learning; behaviorism; cognitive information processing; how learning develops; the importance of prior knowledge; constructivism; situated cognition; educational technology; motivation for learning and neuroscience.