Edu Psych

• Mindshift in Education


  Transformative change in one's perspective towards learning, moving away from fixed thinking patterns and embracing a growth mindset
• Growth mindset


  • Belief that intelligence and abilities can be developed through effort and persistence, contrasts with fixed mindset which views these as innate and unchangeable
• Characteristics of growth mindset

  • Belief in the potential for growth
  • Embracing challenges
  • Persistence and resilience
  • Learning from feedback
  • Celebrating effort and progress
• Effective teaching


  Extent to which teachers positively impact student learning and development, encompasses instructional practices, classroom management, relationships with students, and professional growth
• Characteristics of effective teaching

  • Instructional strategies
  • Classroom management techniques
  • Rapport with students
  • Continuous professional growth
• Educational psychology


  Branch of psychology that focuses on understanding how people learn and how teaching methods can be optimized to enhance learning outcomes
• Educational psychology plays a significant role in shaping modern educational practices
• Educational psychology focuses on studying individual student behaviors and broader classroom dynamics
• Humanistic theories focus on personal growth, self-actualization, and individual differences.
• Behaviorism focuses on observable behaviors, while cognitive psychology emphasizes mental processes such as thinking, problem-solving, memory, and decision making.
• Theories of learning are based on the idea that behavior is learned through experience.
• Social constructivist theory suggests that knowledge is constructed through social interactions and experiences.
• Behaviorist theories emphasize the importance of external stimuli and reinforcement in shaping behavior.
• Cognitive theories explore mental processes such as perception, memory, attention, problem solving, decision making, and language acquisition.
• Cognitive developmental theory explores the stages of intellectual development throughout childhood and adolescence.
• Operant conditioning involves reinforcing or punishing certain behaviors to shape them over time.
• Learning styles refer to individuals' preferred ways of acquiring new information or skills.
• Social cognitive theory combines elements from both humanism and cognitivism, focusing on social interactions and cultural influences.
• Classical conditioning involves associating two stimuli (unconditioned response) with one another until they become linked (conditioned response).
• Social learning theory suggests that we learn by watching others' actions and imitating their responses.