Educational Psychology
- concerned with understanding how instructional environment and characteristics of the learner interact to produce cognitive growth in the learner
- specializes in teaching and learning
- investigates change in a learners cognitive processes and knowledge structures as a result of some form of instruction
Edward Thorndike
Created “law of effect”
-argued educational psychology must have a scientific base
-measurement should be central focus
“responses that produce satisfying effect are likely to occur again
Cognitive Psychology
- looking at cognitive theories instead of stimulus response
- how to acquire, retain, recall & transform information
- how higher mental processes explain learning
Instruction
- A teachers construction of environments for learners, where such environments are intended to foster changes in the learner knowledge and behavior
learner
-enduring changes in the learners
knowledge, where such changes are due to experience
-A cognitive change which is reflected in behavioral change
Behaviorist
behavior is learned unlearned, you can replace bad behavior with new one
Cognitive
thought process effect how we behave
contextual
based on principle that behavior occurs within specific contexts
Learning context
-the social and cultural context of learning including the social structure of the learning environment itself
Learning Processes
The learners internal cognitive processes during learning
-such as how the learner selects, organizes and integrates new info into old info
Learning outcomes
the cognitive changes in the learners knowledge or memory system including the newly acquired facts, procedures, skills And strategies
Outcome Performance
- The learners performance on a measure of learning
- also includes retention and transfer to new learning tasks
