I am going to try to develop here a set of web links that correspond to ideas raised in each of the chapters in Gredler. I will try for "prime value" sites, mine and others, and your suggestions are most welcome!

Chapter One - The role of theory

• History of Psychology; this is another course I sometimes teach, and the first two topics have to do with theories and theory development.
  • Psychology and Science
  • Scientific Revolutions ( Kuhn outlined )
• Philosophical Antecedents (Epistemology's connection with Learning)

Chapter Two - Early Behaviorism

• Associationism, Pavlov
• Watson's Psychology as the Behaviorist views it
• Thorndike's Connectionism
  • Thorndike on Intelligence
• Verbal Learning

• William James, not a Behaviorist per se, but another of the pioneers.

Chapter Three - Gestalt Perspective

• Gestalt
• Muller-Lyer illusion, experiment/demo
• Tolman's Purposive Behaviorism

Chapter Four - Learning and Instruction

• James' Talks to teachers
• Educational Psychology Interactive (Valdosta archive, Huitt)
• Cognition and Instruction (Colorado-Denver)
• Emerging Technologies, Learning Theories
• Learning that lasts
• History of Education and Childhood (Nijmegen University, NL)
• History of Education Database (Dorn)
• Donald Norman, The Invisible Computer
• Learning styles, interesting but problematic

Chapter Five - Skinner's Operant Conditioning

• Operant conditioning overview (PowerPoint on-line)
• Reinforcement schedules
• Reinforcement schedules, more

Chapter Six - Robert Gagne's Conditions of Learning

• Gagne's Legacy

• Web courses vs. lectures

Chapter Seven - Cognitive Perspectives (I)

• Cognition and information processing

Chapter Eight - Cognitive Perspectives (II)

Missing Chapter - NeuroCognitive Perspectives

• A Bridge Too Far (Bruer)
• Gender dfferences (Kimura)
• The 10% of your brain myth
• The first-three-years myth
• The real Mozart Effect

Chapter Nine - Piaget's Cognitive Development Theory

Chapter Ten - Vygotsky's Cultural-Historical Theory

• Vygotsky resources on-line
• Vygotsky Centennial Project (Virtual University, Massey, NZ)
• Vygotsky Archive

Chapter Eleven - Bandura's Social Cognition Theory

• Pajares, truly one-stop shopping for all things Bandura!
  • Efficacy in academic contexts
  • Self Efficacy: The Exercise of Control (book outlined)

Chapter Twelve - Weiner's Attribution Theory

• MIT Encyclopedia
• Attribution, an overview (WVU)
• Attribution, overview (USF)
• Heider and more
• MentalHeap, Weiner