A.

Understanding Learning

 Metacognition

 Learner-Centered Psychological Principles (LCP)

B. Review of the Development Theories

 Freud’s Components of Personality

 Freud’s Psycho-Sexual Stages of Development

 Erikson’s Psychosocial Stages of Development

 Piaget’s Cognitive Stages of Development

 Kohlberg’s Stages of Moral Development

 Vygotsky’s Socio-Cultural Theory

 Bronfenbrenner’s Bio-Ecological Theory

C. Student Diversity
 Individual Differences
Learning/Thinking Styles and Multiple Intelligences
 Learners with Exceptionalities

D. Behaviorist Perspective
 Behaviorism: Pavlov, Thorndike, Watson, Skinner
 Neo Behaviorism: Tolman and Bandura

E. Cognitive Perspective
 Gestalt Psychology
 Information processing
 Gagne’s Conditions of Learning
 Ausubel’s Meaningful Verbal Learning/
Subsumption Theory Bruner’s Constructivist Theory

F. Cognitive Processes
Constructivism
 Transfer of
Learning
 Bloom’s
Taxonomy of
Educational
Objectives-Revised
 Sternberg’s
Successful
Intelligence Theory
and WICS Model
 Problem Solving
and Creativity

G. Motivation
 Meaning and Types of Motivation
 Theories on Factors Affecting Motivation
 Student’s Diversity in Motivation
H. Motivation in the Classroom
 Human Environmental Factors Affecting Motivation
 The Classroom Climate
 The Physical Learning Environment
 Assessment Strategies that can increase motivation

I. Revisiting the 14 LCP Principles