Educational Psychology: Learning, Cognition, and Strategies

1. Purpose and Content of Educational Psychology

A) Purpose of Study

Educational psychology examines student characteristics and factors that influence the teaching-learning process. Teachers organize and structure learning experiences to achieve desired changes, providing meaningful and engaging learning opportunities.

The object of study of educational psychology (and the teacher’s competence) is to know:

  • What to teach: Curriculum content, procedural and attitudinal skills.
  • How to teach: Learning procedures
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Child Sexual Abuse & Substance Abuse: Impacts and Consequences

Item 1. Domestic and Sexual Abuse

Outside the Family

It is important to differentiate between domestic and extra-familial sexual abuse due to several factors:

  • Intervention and approach strategies vary significantly.
  • The psychological profiles of offenders differ radically.
  • There may be distinguishing features in the profiles of child victims.
  • Family dynamics and responses to abuse vary greatly.
  • The methods used to commit sexual abuse differ.

The Child’s Emotional State When Reporting Sexual Abuse

  • A) Resistance
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Perception and Memory in Cognitive Psychology: How Our Minds Work

Psychology: Perception and Memory

1. How the Mind Works?

Thinkers throughout history have studied knowledge. In the 1960s, Cognitive Psychology emerged, focusing on the analysis of cognitive processes such as perception, memory, learning, and reasoning.

In the human mind, information gathered by the senses flows through a cognitive system with these components:

  • Attention
  • Perception
  • Memory

Humans are conceived as information processors:

  1. First, stimuli are received.
  2. These stimuli are transformed into nerve
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Motivation, Learning & Behavior: Theories, Strategies & Conflicts

1. Concept and Theories of Motivation

Motivation has been studied from various perspectives and is closely linked to emotions, but especially to needs. These needs are categorized according to individual requirements, ranging from basic to more complex (culturally determined).

Primary motivations relate to the impulses and dispositions of the organism to maintain basic bodily functions like eating, thirst, and sex. They are closely tied to biological factors and are innate.

On the other hand, stimulant

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Understanding Disability and the Elderly: Needs and Leisure

General Characteristics of Persons with Disabilities

WHO Definition of Dependence

Dependence is the need for help from another person for Activities of Daily Living (ADL), which may be due to illness, injury, deficiency, or limitations.

Types of Dependence

  • Moderate: Large dependence for 2 or 3 WHO activities.
  • Severe: Dependence for all WHO activities.

WHO Definition of Handicap

Handicap refers to the disadvantages experienced by people due to various barriers, including cultural, technical, economic,

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Understanding Culture, Beliefs, and Values in Society

Culture, Beliefs, and Values in Society

Understanding Cultural Beliefs

Each culture provides its members with implicit and explicit responses. Beliefs are ideas about reality, historically developed and socially transmitted. Some beliefs are specific, relating to particular aspects of the world, forming sets known as domains. Other beliefs concern the differences between domains or their boundaries and interrelationships.

Within each culture, beliefs are generally internally consistent and mutually

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