Educational Psychology

Social reinforcement learning refers to the way behavior is strengthened by social consequences such as praise, attention, smiles, approval and

Observational learning processes are the mental steps that turn watching someone else into knowledge a learner can later use. Psychologist

Modeling and imitation learning describes one of the oldest and most natural ways humans acquire skills: watching someone else and

Cognitive apprenticeship is a teaching approach that applies the logic of a traditional craft apprenticeship to thinking skills such as

Misconceptions and repair is the practical side of a familiar classroom problem: students often arrive with confident ideas that are

Concept change processes describe how learners move from intuitive or everyday ideas about the world to the scientific or expert

Concept mapping learning uses diagrams in which key ideas appear as labeled boxes connected by arrows and linking words, so

Schema formation is the process by which the mind builds organized frameworks of knowledge, called schemas, that represent how things

Phonological processing learning concerns how the brain detects, stores and works with the sound structure of spoken language, and how

Semantic processing learning refers to the way people remember information better when they think about what it means rather than