Psychology of Learning: A Textbook in Educational Psychology

Why This Book Matters

How do people actually learn? Long before learning science became a data-driven field, this classic set out to answer that question systematically for teachers and students of education. Part of the respected McGraw-Hill Publications in Psychology series, Psychology of Learning brought the experimental study of learning into the classroom, giving educators a principled foundation rather than folk wisdom.

What Is Psychology of Learning? A Complete Overview

Psychology of Learning: A Textbook in Educational Psychology is a systematic treatment of how learning works and how that knowledge applies to teaching. Written as a university-level educational-psychology text, it surveys the mechanisms of learning and their practical implications for instruction, motivation, and the measurement of progress.

Typical of the McGraw-Hill psychology series, it grounds its account in the experimental evidence of its era — making it both a teaching text and a window into how educational psychology understood learning in the early-to-mid twentieth century.

What You’ll Take Away

• A structured introduction to the psychology of learning for educators
• The classical principles connecting learning theory to classroom teaching
• A foundational perspective on motivation, practice, and the transfer of learning
• A primary-source reference for the history of educational psychology

Who Should Read This

Education students, teachers, and anyone interested in the historical foundations of educational psychology and learning theory. It reads as both an accessible introduction to how learning works and a document of how the discipline first framed that question.