Educational Psychology emphasizes the application of theory to real classroom practice, making connections among chapter concepts, relevant scholarship, and rich vignettes of the real-life experiences of teachers across all grade levels. Santrock's hallmark Learning System organizes the content into manageable chunks under learning goals, supported by mini-chapter maps that lay out each section, and reinforced by chapter-ending case studies that give students the opportunity to reflect on and synthesize what they have learned.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Educational Psychology: A Tool for Effective Teaching

Chapter 2: Cognitive and Language Development

Chapter 3: Social Contexts and Socioemotional Development

Chapter 4: Individual Variations

Chapter 5: Sociocultural Diversity

Chapter 6: Learners Who Are Exceptional

Chapter 7: Behavioral and Social Cognitive Approaches

Chapter 8: The Information-Processing Approach

Chapter 9: Complex Cognitive Processes

Chapter 10: Social Constructivist Approaches

Chapter 11: Learning and Cognition in the Content Areas

Chapter 12: Planning, Instruction, and Technology

Chapter 13: Motivation, Teaching, and Learning

Chapter 14: Managing the Classroom

Chapter 15: Standardized Tests and Teaching

Chapter 16: Classroom Assessment and Grading

About the Author

John W. Santrock received his Ph.D. from the College of Education and Human Development at the University of Minnesota. He has taught at the University of Charleston, the University of Georgia, and the University of Texas at Dallas. He has worked as a school psychologist and currently teaches educational psychology at the undergraduate level. In 2006, Dr. Santrock received the University of Texas at Dallas Excellence in Teaching Award. His research has included publications in the Journal of Educational Psychology on the contextual aspects of affectively toned cognition and children's self-regulatory behavior as well as teachers' perceptions of children from divorced families. He has been on the editorial boards of Developmental Psychology and Child Development. His publications include these exceptional McGraw-Hill texts: Child Development, 13th Edition; Life-Span Development, 14th Edition; Adolescence, 14th Edition; Psychology, 7th Edition; and Educational Psychology, 4th Edition.