PSY 124 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Educational Psychology, Pessimism, Critical Thinking
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4 c"s to success: confidence, critical thinking, communication, creativity, collaboration. What is educational psychology: the scientific study of how the instructor"s manipulation of the environment (i. e instruction) causes changes in the learner"s knowledge (i. e learning, how to help people learn. Instruction (an action that creates the learning process) learning assessment (how do we know that someone actually gained knowledge?) History of educational psychology: three paths between psychology and education. Early voices in educational psychology: william james. Psychology ignores education (creates concept of learning based on rat experiments) Education ignores psychology (creates concept based on what"s most common/popular) **failed when psychology exhausted everything there is to learn about rats and it was obvious it wasn"t gonna go anywhere. Education shapes psychology research (ex: offering questions, how do you teach math? vs. How do rats learn? ); psychological research shapes educational practice: most famous for writing a textbook of psychology (first popular introduction to.
