Educational Psychology

THE CONCEPT OF MEMORY

Memory can be defined as the process by which people encode, store and retrieve information. There are three stages in…

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THE LOCUS OF CONTROL

 Psychologists have spent years etching out patterns in personality traits that suggest that people vary in the degree to which…

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The Self-Fulfilling Prophecy Theory

The concept of self-fulfilling prophecy was defined by Wool folk, A. (2013:538) as a groundless expectation that is confirmed because…

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ACHIEVEMENT MOTIVATION THEORY OR NEED FOR ACHIEVEMENT

David McClelland advanced an achievement motivation theory which argues that some people are motivated by the "need for achievement" (n-ach).…

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Incentive theory of motivation by Hull

 The drive-reduction theory of motivation emphasizes the internal states of the organism; however, the Incentive theory of motivation stresses the…

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Incentive Function theory of motivation by Hull

The drive-reduction theory of motivation emphasizes the internal states of the organism; however, the Incentive Function theory stresses the role…

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EXPECTANCY THEORY OF MOTIVATION By Victor Vroom

The expectancy theory of motivation was suggested by Victor Vroom. Unlike Maslow, Vroom does not concentrate on needs as motivational…

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BIOLOGICAL OR AROUSAL THEORY OF MOTIVATION

The arousal theory of motivation was developed by Donald Hebb, a Canadian Neuropsychologist, (of which he is recognised as the…

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BLOOM’S TYPES OF LEARNING

Benjamin Bloom (1956) developed three different levels of classifying learning outcomes or objectives. These are also known as Bloom's Types…

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THE SOCIAL COGNITIVE LEARNING THEORY

The social cognitive learning theory, has developed over the years to explain alternative ways through which learning takes place in…

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JEROME BRUNER’S THEORY OF DISCOVERY LEARNING & REPRESENTATION

This article explores Jerome Bruner's theory of development, his three modes of representation, and his beliefs on learning, language, and…

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GAGNÉ’S HIERARCHY OF LEARNING THEORY

In 1956, the American educational psychologist Robert M. Gagné proposed a system of classifying different types of learning in terms…

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