Educational Psychology

• Behaviourist learning theory applied to education including classical and operant conditioning.
• Cognitive developmental theories applied to education (e.g. Piaget, Vygotsky and Bruner).
• Individual differences in learning styles (e.g. Curry’s Onion model and Grasha’s Six learning styles and gender and cultural differences).
• Motivating factors in the classroom (e.g. teaching styles, attribution theory, Maslow’s Hierarchy of needs).
• Special Educational Needs including the assessment, categorisation and strategies for education of at least one Special Educational need (e.g. dyslexia, autism).