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Educational psychology is the branch of psychology concerned with the scientific study of human learning.The study of learning processes, from both cognitive and behavioral perspectives, allows researchers to understand individual differences in intelligence, cognitive development, affect, motivation, self-regulation, and self-concept, as well as their role in learning.
Various types of motivation also play a role particularly intrinsic and extrinsic motivation. Intrinsic motivation is an inherent type of motivation that one engages as an end to itself. Extrinsic motivation, on the other hand, is a motivation that is provided externally such as external awards or punishments. Research has shown that incentives ...
Epistemic motivation derives from the broader theory of lay epistemics, which addresses the processes in which individuals form their knowledge in regards to varied topics, such as all possible contents of knowledge, including attitudes, beliefs, causal attributions, impressions, opinions, statistical inferences, and stereotypes.
The journal preceded by the Journal of Experimental Pedagogy and College Training Record which ran from 1911 to 1922 and which then became the Forum of Education until 1930. The journal covers psychological research pertaining to education in areas such as cognition, learning, motivation, literacy, numeracy and language, behaviour, social ...
Richard E. Mayer (born 1947) is an American educational psychologist and Professor of Psychology at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) where he has served since 1975. He received a PhD in psychology from the University of Michigan (1973), and served as a Visiting Assistant Professor of Psychology at Indiana University (1973–1975).
Education sciences, [1] also known as education studies, education theory, and traditionally called pedagogy, [2] seek to describe, understand, and prescribe education including education policy. Subfields include comparative education , educational research , instructional theory , curriculum theory and psychology , philosophy , sociology ...
Educational researchers may draw upon a variety of disciplines including psychology, economics, sociology, anthropology, and philosophy. [ 1 ] [ 3 ] Methods may be drawn from a range of disciplines. [ 3 ] [ 5 ] Conclusions drawn from an individual research study may be limited by the characteristics of the participants who were studied and the ...