Lesson in Cognitive Psychology and Biological Psychology

1. Prepared by:
Orlando A. Pistan, MAEd
Psychology Instructor

2. American psychologist who spent
nearly his entire career at
Teachers College, Columbia
University.
Born: 31 August
1874, Williamsburg,
Massachusetts, United States
Died: 9 August 1949, Montrose,
New York, United States
Father of modern Educational
Psychology

3. Law or Readiness
Law of Exercise
Law of Effect

4. Readiness refers to the degree of
craving at a given moment.
The law of readiness is explained
by the statement, “When an
individual is ready to act and
learn, he acts and learns more
effectively and with grater
satisfaction than when not ready.”
Thus, readiness is a mental set
which means that a child can learn
his lessons when he is inclined to
work at them.

5. Arousing the interest of the
learners will give them
motivation to learn more.
Maturation is an important
component of this law.
Maturation is the completion of
developmental processes in the
body.

6. This law implies that if
the learner is not
ready and matured
enough, the learning
experience will result
to frustration.

7. According to Thorndike, this
law has two aspects and as
such two related doctrines,
1. Law of Use and 2. Law if
Disuse.
Law of Use. When a
connection is made
between a situation and a
response, that connection’s
strength is increased.

8. Law of Disuse. When a
connection is not made
between a situation and a
response, over a length of
time, connection’s strength
is decreased.
Repetitions of activities fix
knowledge and skills to be
learned. Practice makes
perfect.

9. According to Thorndike, the
principle of effect is the
fundamental law of teaching and
learning.
The law states that, “When
pleasant or satisfying
consequences follow a response,
the latter tends to be repeated.
When unpleasant consequences
attend a response, it tends to be
eliminated.”

10. Law of Primacy
Law of Intensity
Law of Recency
Law of Association

11. This law affirms that the
state of being first, often
creates a strong, almost
unshakeable impression.
“What is taught must be
right for the first time”. It
is difficult to unlearn or
modify a wrong learning.

12. The principle states that if
the stimulus (experience) is
real, the more likely there is
to be a change in behavior
(learning).
A vivid, dramatic or exciting
learning experience teaches
more than a routine or
boring experience.

13. Things most recently
learned are best
remembered, while the
things learned some
time ago are
remembered with more
difficulty.

14. Learning takes place
when a connection is
formed through the
association of the past
and new situation.

15. Thank you for
paying attention.