Educational Psychology

The habit cue and response link is the basic unit of any routine: a particular situation appears, and a particular

Habit breaking difficulty is the frustrating gap between deciding to stop a behavior and actually stopping it. A student may

Habits formation mechanisms are the mental processes that turn an action people must think about into one they perform almost

Conditioned responses learning refers to the way people acquire automatic reactions, often emotional or physical, to signals that once meant

Classical conditioning processes describe how a neutral signal, repeated alongside something that already triggers a reaction, comes to trigger that

Habituation learning is the simple but important process by which people gradually respond less to a stimulus that is repeated

Behavioral learning principles are a set of ideas that explain learning through observable behavior and the conditions around it, rather

Operant conditioning basics start with a simple observation: behavior is shaped by what happens after it. When an action leads

Shaping behavior learning is a method for teaching a behavior that a learner does not yet perform by reinforcing small

Reinforcement timing effects describe how the moment a reward arrives, and how often it arrives, changes what a learner takes