Educational Psychology

Cognitive training limitations have become an important topic as apps and programs promise to boost memory, attention or intelligence through

Cognitive strategies instruction is the explicit teaching of mental techniques, such as summarizing, questioning, visualizing and planning, that help students

Debiasing learning strategies are techniques that help students reduce the mental shortcuts and blind spots that distort how they study,

Scientific reasoning development describes how children and teenagers gradually learn to ask testable questions, design fair tests, interpret evidence and

Causal reasoning skills allow people to figure out why things happen, separating true causes from coincidences and surface patterns. These

Teaching self explanation means helping students talk themselves through new material, asking why each step makes sense and how it

Reasoning and explanation are closely linked, because explaining why something is true forces a learner to reason through the steps

Metacognition in problem solving is the ability to watch and steer your own thinking while you work on a problem,

Problem solving stages describe the sequence of mental steps people move through when they face a problem without an obvious

Analogical reasoning in learning is the mental process of understanding something new by mapping it onto something already familiar, such