www.psychexamreview.com In this video I introduce the work of developmental psychologist Jean Piaget. Piaget proposed a stage-based theory for how we develop our cognitive abilities. Piaget viewed children like little scientists who were constantly testing and updating their knowledge structures, or schema, for how the world works. When encountering something new, children either assimilate this new knowledge into their existing schema, or they need to accommodate, modifying their schema in light of the new information. Like these videos? Consider supporting Psych Exam Review on Patreon: www.patreon.com/PsychExamReview Don’t forget to subscribe to the channel to see future videos! Have questions or topics you’d like to see covered in a future video? Let me know by commenting or sending me an email! Need more explanation? Get volume 1 of my Master Introductory Psychology series here: http://amzn.to/2ENc44U ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDDb6wn216E

In this video I describe the importance of active retrieval for long-term retention of material and how we should include what Elizabeth and Robert Bjork call "desirable difficulties" in our learning and studying. I try to follow the general principle of using my mind as the primary tool in my studying and treating all other materials and resources as secondary to what I can do on my own. This view can help to simply studying and learning, even though it often makes it more difficult or frustrating. Resources and Links: Roediger, H. L.; Karpicke, J. D. (2006). "Test-Enhanced Learning: Taking Memory Tests Improves Long-Term Retention". Psychological Science. 17 (3): 249–255. doi:10.1111/j.1467-9280.2006.01693.x Steve Kaufmann YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/lingosteve Powerful Teaching Review: https://www.psychexamreview.com/book-review-powerful-teaching/ Small Teaching - James M. Lang (Amazon): https://amzn.to/2T0SNT9 LCD Writing Tablet (Amazon link): https://amzn.to/2I5vUaF ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9FM4t4HW0Y

In this video I describe the concepts of nativism and philosophical empiricism as well as modern views of the "nature vs. nature debate". Don’t forget to subscribe to the channel to see future videos! Have questions or topics you’d like to see covered in a future video? Let me know by commenting or sending me an email! Need more explanation? Get my full psychology guide here: http://amzn.to/2eTqm5s Enable closed-captioning or find a full transcript of this video here: http://www.psychexamreview.com/nature-versus-nurture/ ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPIlIdgC0rA

www.psychexamreview.com In this video I introduce several concepts related to problem-solving. I begin with mental set, which refers to our tendency to rely on approaches that have worked in the past. Similarly, functional fixedness refers to our tendency to think of tools as having single fixed uses and this may cause us to overlook novel uses for them. Convergent thinking refers to approaches leading to a single solution, while divergent thinking refers to coming up with many possible solutions which may not be related to one another. Don’t forget to subscribe to the channel to see future videos! Have questions or topics you’d like to see covered in a future video? Let me know by commenting or sending me an email! Check out my psychology guide: Master Introductory Psychology, a low-priced alternative to a traditional textbook: http://amzn.to/2eTqm5s ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pL-XpuPbtbY