Scaffolding is using the process of solving a problem in front of students as a way to teach them the problem. If might remember this from some of your classes growing up. A teacher would explain one or two key concepts and then work through several example problems, solving them in a step-by-step process. The …
Maturation in psychology refers to the learned ability to react and cope in an emotionally rational and acceptable manner. Note, it doesn’t always occur alongside our aging or physical development. Many people continue developing and achieving further maturation well into adulthood. Some presidents, on the other hand, completely stopped after the age of 5 or …
Elaborative Rehearsal is a memory technique that involves associating new information with pre-existing knowledge to facilitate long-term retention and recall. Let’s say you’re trying to remember the name of a person you just met named Bill. Using elaborative rehearsal, you might make connections between Bill and other things you know. Maybe he has the same …
Maintenance rehearsal, also called rote rehearsal, is when someone repeatedly says a piece of information out loud in the hopes of being able to remember it easier. It’s thought our short-term memory is able to hold about 12-30 seconds worth of information, but using maintenance rehearsal is thought to increase it. Note, it doesn’t help …
Mnemonics are a technique to help you remember something easier. Technically speaking, any technique you use to help you remember something can be a mnemonic. We often see in movies when doctoral students, who are ungodly brilliant, of course, will memorize long complex acronyms and suddenly ace their exam. When they come up with these …
Conception is when two gametes come together in fusion. This involves one male cell (a sperm) and one female cell (an egg). After mating, usually anyway, these gametes combine into an embryo where each one contributes 50% of the parent’s DNA. This results in a unique offspring combining both of the parent’s genes. For more …
A debriefing in psychology takes place after a study or experiment ends and the researchers debrief the participants. During this process, the researchers are required to explain the full concept of the study, if and why there was any deception, and are supposed to encourage the participants to ask any questions they may have and …
Identity foreclosure in psychology is a commitment and acceptance of an identity based on the values, ideas, roles, and other pertinent guidance others have chosen for an individual, especially during their youth. An easy way to think of this is imagining someone who grows up in an uber-religious outcast group. That child has a high …
Retrieval in psychology is the act of locating and recovering information stored in memory in our minds. Retrieval is considered the final stage of memory, just after encoding and retention. Retrieval is a critical process in the human memory system. It refers to the ability to locate and recover information that has been previously stored …
In psychology, the definition of concept has to do with all of the mental groupings related to similar objects, events, and individuals that make up what that thing is. For example, think of a pumpkin. You might think it’s orange, about 1 foot wide, and either tastes amazing or disgusting depending on your affinity towards …
