Thorndike called the association between sense impressions and impulses to action a bond or a connection. This marked the first formal attempt to link sensory events to behavior. Earlier brands of associationism attempted to show how ideas became linked together; thus Thorndike's

Learning is usually defined as a change in an individual caused by experience. Changes caused by development are not instances of learning. Neither are characteristics of individuals that are present at birth. However, human beings do so much learning from the day of their birth that learning and development are inseparably linked

Development refers to the ways people grow, adapt, and change during their lifetimes. physical development, personality development, socioemotional development, cognitive development(thinking), and language development

Educational psychology is to give tomorrow' s teachers the intellectual grounding and practical strategies needed to be effective as instructors

Wertheimer came to the United States in 1933, shortly before the Nazis seized power in Germany

“Any subject can by taught effectively to any child at any stage of development

The primary purpose of school is to give students the skills and knowledge necessary for them to function effectively as adults in reality

A concept is a category under which specific elements may be grouped.e.g. a red ball, a red pencil, and a red chair are all instances of the simple concept “red”. An “even number” is defined as any integer（整数） that is divisible by two without a remainder, and that an “odd number” is one that is not evenly(均匀地） divisible by two

The educator’s job is not increase motivation per se(本身）but to discover, initiate, and sustain student’s motivation to learn, and to engage in activities that lead to learning

Learning strategies are specific methods of learning information that help them learn and remember things. The four commonly observed trends in the development of learning strategies