Educational Psychology

Piaget described the mechanisms by which information from the environment and ideas from the individual interact to form internalized structures developed by learners.

made significant contributions to human cognitive psychology and cognitive learning theory in educational psychology

best known for formulating an influential theory of cognitive load

Germane load refers to the working memory resources that the learner dedicates to managing the intrinsic cognitive load associated with the essential information for learning.

his ideas have become influential in some modern educational approaches.

Lawrence Kohlberg (; October 25, 1927 - January 17, 1987) was an American psychologist best known for his theory of stages of moral development.

Edward Lee Thorndike ((1874-08-31)August 31, 1874 - (1949-08-09)August 9, 1949) was an American psychologist who spent nearly his entire career at Teachers College, Columbia University.

Bernard Weiner (born 1935) is an American social psychologist known for developing a form of attribution theory which seeks to explain the emotional and motivational entailments of academic success and failure.

In psychology, the Zeigarnik effect (named after Lithuanian-Soviet psychologist Bluma Zeigarnik) postulates that people remember unfinished or interrupted tasks better than completed tasks.

The generation effect is a psychological phenomenon whereby information is better remembered if it is generated from one's own mind rather than simply read.

Distinction bias, a concept of decision theory, is the tendency to view two options as more distinctive when evaluating them simultaneously than when evaluating them separately.

The picture superiority effect refers to the phenomenon in which pictures and images are more likely to be remembered than words.

The overjustification effect is a phenomenon in psychology in which providing expected external incentive, such as money or prizes, for an already intrinsically rewarding activity can reduce a person's intrinsic motivation to perform that activity.

Correspondent inference theory is a psychological theory proposed by Edward E. Jones and Keith E. Davis (1965) that "systematically accounts for a perceiver's inferences about what an actor was trying to achieve by a particular action".

The Mozart effect is the hypothesis that listening to the music of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart may temporarily boost scores on one portion of an IQ test.

The Dr. Fox effect is a correlation observed between teacher attire, expressiveness, content coverage, student evaluation, and student achievement.

Bloom's 2 sigma problem refers to the educational phenomenon that the average student tutored one-to-one using mastery learning techniques performed two standard deviations better than students educated in a classroom environment.

Foreign language anxiety, also known as xenoglossophobia, is the feeling of unease, worry, nervousness and apprehension experienced in learning or using a second or foreign language.

Communication apprehension is a degree or measure of the anxiety triggered by the real or anticipated communication act, as defined by James C. McCroskey.

Flow in positive psychology, also known colloquially as being in the zone or focused, is the mental state in which a person performing some activity is fully immersed in a feeling of energized focus, full involvement, and enjoyment in the process of the activity.

Charles Edward Spearman, FRS (10 September 1863 - 17 September 1945) was an English psychologist known for work in statistics, as a pioneer of factor analysis, and for Spearman's rank correlation coefficient.

Lee Joseph Cronbach (April 22, 1916 - October 1, 2001) was an American educational psychologist who made contributions to psychological testing and measurement.

Moral disengagement is a term from developmental psychology, educational psychology and social psychology for the process of convincing the self that ethical standards do not apply to oneself in a particular context.

She made contributions in psychology of women, clinical psychology, and educational psychology.

She went on to receive a master's degree in Educational Psychology from the University of Colorado.

It is a concept in educational psychology and is not a clinical disorder such as a thought disorder.