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Educational Psychology
Educational psychology is only a small scientific discipline that cannot be expected to create significant changes in our society. It does, however, attempt to establish principles and generalizations about human learning and psychological development in all its phases. Due to the contributions of great scientists educational psychology has much to offer for solving contemporary educational problems.
William James, the father of educational psychology, in 1890 was the first to attack the problem of memory training experimentally (Wittrock and Farley, 1989, p. 88). James and four of his students each ascertained the time required to memorize material from one author, such as a section of Victor Hugo Satyr. Then, after spending about twenty minutes per day for a month or more learning material from another author, they again memorized passages from the Satyr. Three of the four students showed improvement, while the other student and James himself found no......

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