I. Preliminary Considerations -- 1. What Is Educational Psychology? -- 2. The Quality of United States Schools: An International Comparison with Attention to Values -- II. Psychological Viewpoints and Related Paradigms of Learning -- 3. Functionalism: Goal-Directed Activity, Purposivity, Dewey's Pragmatism, and Modern Feedback Theory -- 4. Associationism: The Experience of Contiguity between Events and Its Molding of Thought, Perception, and Feeling -- 5. Russian Dialectical-Materialist Psychology: Classical Conditioning and Its Relation to Mentation and Language -- 6. Behaviorism: Instrumental Conditioning and Programmed Instruction -- 7. Gestalt Psychology: Perceptual Illusions and Insight-Thinking -- 8. Freudian Psychoanalysis: Therapy as Reeducation -- 9. Criticisms of Psychoanalysis by Jung, Adler, and Sullivan: Implications for Education -- 10. Cognitive Psychology: An Emphasis on the Mind -- III. Professional Aspects of Teaching -- 11. Instructional Methods and Nomenclature -- 12. Do's and Don'ts of Effective Teaching -- 13. Fundamentals of Testing -- 14. Fundamentals of Reading -- 15. Epilogue and Prologue: A Look to the Future -- References -- About the Authors.