Flashcards: Educational psychology

One's self-concept (also called self-construction, self-identity, self-perspective or self-structure) is a collection of beliefs about oneself that includes elements such as academic performance, gender roles, sexuality, and racial identity.

In positive psychology, flow, also known as the zone, is the mental state of operation in which a person performing an activity is fully immersed in a feeling of energized focus, full involvement, and enjoyment in the process of the activity.

Pedagogy is the discipline that deals with the theory and practice of education; it thus concerns the study and practice of how best to teach.

Reading is a complex cognitive process of decoding symbols in order to construct or derive meaning (reading comprehension).

Critical thinking, also called critical analysis, is clear, rational thinking involving critique.

Active learning is a teaching method that strives to more directly involve students in the learning process.

A community of practice (CoP) is a group of people who share a craft and/or a profession.

Socratic method, also known as maieutics, method of elenchus, elenctic method, or Socratic debate, is a form of cooperative argumentative dialogue between individuals, based on asking and answering questions to stimulate critical thinking and to draw out ideas and underlying presumptions.

Dyscalculia (/ˌdɪskælˈkjuːli.ə/) is difficulty in learning or comprehending arithmetic, such as difficulty in understanding numbers, learning how to manipulate numbers, and learning facts in mathematics.

Inclusion in education is an approach to educating students with special educational needs.

Coaching is a form of development in which a person called a coach supports a learner or client in achieving a specific personal or professional goal by providing training, advice and guidance.

Cooperative learning is an educational approach which aims to organize classroom activities into academic and social learning experiences.

Truancy is any intentional unauthorized or illegal absence from compulsory education.

Note-taking (sometimes written as notetaking or note taking) is the practice of recording information captured from another source.

Discovery learning is a technique of inquiry-based learning and is considered a constructivist based approach to education.

The worked-example effect is a learning effect predicted by cognitive load theory (Sweller, 1988).

A reading disability is a condition in which a sufferer displays difficulty reading resulting primarily from neurological factors.

Problem-based learning (PBL) is a student-centered pedagogy in which students learn about a subject through the experience of solving an open-ended problem.

The overjustification effect occurs when an expected external incentive such as money or prizes decreases a person's intrinsic motivation to perform a task.

School psychology is a field that applies principles of educational psychology, developmental psychology, clinical psychology, community psychology, and applied behavior analysis to meet children's and adolescents' behavioral health and learning needs in a collaborative manner with educators and parents.

Engineering education is the activity of teaching knowledge and principles related to the professional practice of engineering.

Transfer of learning is the dependency of human conduct, learning, or performance on prior experience.

Educational research refers to a variety of methods, in which individuals evaluate different aspects of education including: "student learning, teaching methods, teacher training, and classroom dynamics".

Educational evaluation is the evaluation process of characterizing and appraising some aspect/s of an educational process.

A recitation in a general sense is the act of reciting from memory, or a formal reading of verse or other writing before an audience.

Hyperkinetic disorder is a psychiatric syndrome emerging in early childhood that features an enduring pattern of severe, developmentally inappropriate inattention, hyperactivity and impulsivity across different settings (e.g., home and school) that significantly impair academic, social and work performance.

The majority of these principles are widely applied in aerospace instruction, and some in many other fields, as outlined below:

Sluggish cognitive tempo (SCT) is a descriptive term for a cluster of symptoms that some researchers believe comprise a novel psychiatric disorder.