Educational Psychology

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studies of educational surveys, there were nine major factors
that increased learning. These nine factors can be placed into three groups:
student aptitude, instruction, and psychological environments. Student aptitude
includes (1) ability or prior achievement as measured by score on educational
test; (2) development as indexed by chronological age or stage of maturation;
and (3) motivation or self-concept as shown by personality tests and students'
perseverance on learning tasks. Instruction can be thought of as (4) the amount
of time students engage in learning and (5) the quality of the instructional
experience. Psychological environments include: (6) the "curriculum of the
home," (7) the morale of the classroom social group, (8) the peer group outside
school, and (9) the amount of leisure-time television viewing. These are the
factors that influence academic achievement and behavioral learning (A.A.E. 66).
Educational psychology does not only hold true for humans, but also ...

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