Educational+Psychology

Educational Psychology

What is the major emphasis or what is the subject matter in this specialty area? // The major emphasis of educational psychology is specializing in understanding how different factors affect the classroom behavior of both teachers and students. Educational psychologists study how students learn in classrooms. // What topics does it usually include? For example, privacy issues and work space design. // Educational psychology includes topics such as age-level characteristics, understanding student differences, diversity, approaches to instruction, and theories (such as behavioral learning theory, information-processing theory, social cognitive theory) // Give examples of the typical types of questions studied. For example, what brain centers are responsible for memory? // What is the best way to teach a student that has a learning disability? How does technology help a classroom and help curriculum? (ex: technology promoting cognitive development) What effect does ethnicity have on learning? What teaching methods are best for the instruction of students? What techniques can be used when dealing with behavior problems? //

Write a brief history of the specialty. Include where it was founded, why did it seem necessary to have this specialty, and who or what group initiated the specialty. // Philosophers such as Quintilian, Vives, Democritus and Comenius discussed and organized educational methods in the late 1800s before the term psychology was even coined. It became necessary to begin studying and observing education to fix some of the educational problems that took place. William James is said to have written what is now seen as the first educational psychology book in 1899 titled Talks to Teachers on Psychology. // List some psychologists and examples of their publications that support this specialty. - **//Erickson//**//’s theory of psychosocial development: he proposed essential characteristics of the stages of personality development in Childhood and Society (1963)// - **//Piaget//**//’s theory of cognitive development// //-**Maslow**// //and **Rogers** Humanistic Approach to Teaching: Student-Centered// // Maslow believed you should let children grow. He decided that more could be learned by studying the behavior of especially well-adjusted people, whom he referred to as self-actualizers // // Rogers believed you should have a learner-centered education, teachers should try to establish the same conditions as do person-centered therapists. //

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