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An Interdisciplinary Review of Self-Regulation of Learning: Bridging Cognitive and Educational Psychology Perspectives
Understanding how students self-regulate their learning experiences has been at the forefront of many empirical and theoretical advances in both...
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Educational Psychology
This chapter provides a brief survey of key areas of work in educational psychology that are relevant to science and technology education. The...
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Developmental Psychology
Developmental Psychology is the scientific study of mind and behavior from the perspective of change across the entire lifespan. In the present...
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The Role of Evolutionary Psychology in Our Understanding of Human Cognition: Consequences for Cognitive Load Theory and Instructional Procedures
Cognitive load theory is an instructional design theory based on our knowledge of human cognitive architecture and evolutionary educational...
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Cultural Psychology
The chapter presents an overview and the historical background of what can be considered the family of “cultural psychologies,” that is, those...
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Psychology of Art
This chapter presents an introductory overview on the psychology of art, a field of expertise almost as old as Psychology itself. The first...
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Teaching Introductory Psychology
One of the most popular courses taken by undergraduates in North America is introductory psychology. Although the course serves as a gateway to the...
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Indigenous Psychology
Indigenous psychology is an intellectual worldwide movement against the hegemony of Eurocentric psychologies, in their reflected or unreflected...
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Community Psychology and Psychological Distress
Dominant approaches to support people in psychological distress are individualistic, emphasizing intervention conducted in the privacy of the therapy...
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Teaching Engineering Psychology
Engineering psychology addresses our interactions with systems – from personal wearable devices to urban environments – that are designed to serve...
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Psychology in Health Science
This chapter discusses the characteristics, training programs, strengths, and critical aspects of health psychology, as it is taught in educational...
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Evolutionary Perspectives on Educational Psychology: Motivation, Instructional Design, and Child Development
An evolutionary perspective on academic learning and schooling more generally helps us to understand why learning comes effortlessly in some domains...
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Psychology in Teacher Education
Teachers should be empowered to act as deliberate professionals, i.e., guiding their actions in an adaptive way to the affordances of educational...
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Psychology in Teacher Education
Teachers should be empowered to act as deliberate professionals, i.e., guiding their actions in an adaptive way to the affordances of educational...
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Psychology in Tourism
This comprehensive literature review explores the intricate relationship between psychological factors and tourism development, with a focus on the...
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The Development of Cognitive Load Theory: Replication Crises and Incorporation of Other Theories Can Lead to Theory Expansion
Cognitive load theory has been in development since the 1980s. Much of the impetus for that development has come from firstly, replication failures...
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Learning Mechanisms Explaining Learning With Digital Tools in Educational Settings: a Cognitive Process Framework
To explain successful subject matter learning with digital tools, the specification of mediating cognitive processes is crucial for any empirical...
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Teaching Social Psychology Effectively
Social psychology is the scientific study of how people think about, influence, and relate to one another – a subfield of psychology that began more...
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Teaching Psychology in Secondary Education
This chapter focuses on the teaching of introductory psychology in secondary education (high schools) in the United States and recommendations that...
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Evolutionary Perspective on Human Cognitive Architecture in Cognitive Load Theory: a Dynamic, Emerging Principle Approach
Adopting an evolutionary approach to substantiate major characteristics of human cognitive architecture has been one of the major recent developments...