This market-leading text has received wide acclaim for providing an applied, practical, and student-oriented approach to educational psychology. Psychology Applied to Teaching takes complex psychological theories and demonstrates how they apply to the everyday experiences of in-service teachers. The Twelfth Edition combines fresh concepts and contemporary research with long-standing theory and applications to create a textbook that addresses the needs of today's teachers and students.

    This new edition also reflects the Houghton Mifflin Education mission to help bridge the gap from preservice to practice. To that end, several of the program's features foster in students an appreciation of reflection. The first and last chapters discuss the concept and importance of reflective teaching; by providing Pause & Reflect and Journal Entry opportunities throughout the text prompt active reflection; and a new feature, Revealing & Challenging Assumptions, offers aspiring teachers opportunities to confront and reflect on problematic assumptions about teaching and learning.

1. Applying Psychology to Teaching

Part 1 Student Characteristics
2. Theories of Psychosocial and Cognitive Development
3. Age-Level Characteristics
4. Understanding Student Differences
5. Addressing Cultural and Socioeconomic Diversity
6. Accomomdating Student Variability

Part 2 Learning and Instruction
7. Behavioral Learning Theory: Operant Conditioning
8. Information-Processing Theory
9. Social Cognitive Theory
10. Constructivist Learning Theory, Problem Solving, and Transfer
11. Approaches to Instruction

Part 3 Creating a Positive Learning Environment
12. Motivation
13. Classroom Management

Part 4 Assessment of Students
14. Assessment of Classroom Learning
15. Understanding and Using Standardized Tests
16. Becoming a Better Teacher by Becoming a Reflective Teacher