Psychology in education

Logical Positivism is ...

• a scientific approach, which seeks to discover facts through carefully, controlled experiments

• the capacity to simultaneously store and process information.

• an approach, that studies mental processes involved in acquiring, storing, and using knowledge.

Behaviorism - ...

• an approach to learning, which involves encouraging learners to use mental learning strategies to analyze, hypothesize, and deduce information.

• A scientific approach to psychology which arises from the positivist tradition of enquiry, in which people learn in terms of responding to a stimulus.

• A scientific approach, which emphasize the importance of considering the whole person, the uniqueness of the individual, and the essential role of feelings and emotions in learning.

Conditioning - ...

• a form of learning where learning occurs as a result of associating a condition or stimulus with a particular reaction or response.

•  an approach to learning, which is concerned with the ways in which individuals make their own sense of the world.

• a factor that can change in an experiment

Audiolingual method - ...

• a form of learning where learning occurs as a result of associating a condition or stimulus with a particular reaction or response.

• A language teaching method, in which one acquire a set of correct habits or behaviors through repetition and substitution.

• A process, in which learners seek to fit the new information into their existing knowledge.

Cognitive approach - ..

• a process, in which learners modify what they already know to accommodate the input.

• an approach to learning, which involves encouraging learners to use mental learning strategies to analyze, hypothesize, and deduce information.

• A scientific approach, which seeks to discover facts through carefully, controlled experiments.

Information processing - ...

• a theory that suggests that people develop personal constructs, or mental frameworks, about how the world works.

• a process, in which language is used to regulate inner thoughts without any external articulation.

• an approach, that studies mental processes involved in acquiring, storing, and using knowledge.

Constructivism - ...

• a theory that suggests that people develop personal constructs, or mental frameworks, about how the world works.

• an approach to learning, which is concerned with the ways in which individuals make their own sense of the world.

• a theory of perception that focuses on the ongoing perceptual processes by which agents adapt to their environments

Humanism

• an approach to learning, which is concerned with the ways in which individuals make their own sense of the world.

• A scientific approach, which emphasize the importance of considering the whole person, the uniqueness of the individual, and the essential role of feelings and emotions in learning.

• a stage of human cognitive development, where they begin to use abstract reasoning to develop their understanding of the world.

Zone of proximal development (ZPD) – ...

• the distance between the present level of abilty and a higher potencial level that can be achieved with scaffolding.

• the idea that social interaction and cultural context play a crucial role in cognitive development.

• stage of human cognitive development, where they begin to use abstract reasoning to develop their understanding of the world.

System thinking (complexity perspective) - ...

• way of making sense of the complexity of the world by looking at it in terms of wholes and relationships rather than by splitting it down into its parts.

• the idea that social interaction and cultural context play a crucial role in cognitive development.

• a theory that suggests that people develop personal constructs, or mental frameworks, about how the world works by making hypothesis, testing them out, and drawing conclusions, and then constructing personal understanding or theories about the world around them.