Explain Three Psychological Concepts In Education

I am going to apply 3 psychological concepts or principles to explain one of my previous experience related in education. First, there is a concise introduction of the experience. It was happened when I studied in primary two. I was not interested in Chinese before. It was because I used to think Chinese is something which very difficult. I used to be not confident in my Chinese standard since I always answer incorrectly. After I met a teacher, I totally changed my mind. She gave students stickers when we answer questions. No matter the answer was correct or not, she still gave us a sticker. If we collected certain number of stickers, she will give us a gift. Since I did not need to worry that whether I got the prefect answer, I was more
There are two kinds of motivation which are extrinsic motivation and intrinsic motivation. Intrinsic motivation is more effective than extrinsic motivation. As Simon A (2010) states, the prefect method of motivation are intrinsic interests and satisfactions. It is because intrinsically motivated individuals are more able to develop high regards for learning without the existence of any reinforcements. In the case I mentioned, at the beginning, it was an extrinsic motivation. I did not like Chinese. I wanted to answer questions because I desired to get stickers and gifts. At the end, I found that I enjoyed having Chinese lesson. I wanted to engage in lesson and answer questions even without stickers. Lesson participation became my own reward. It was an intrinsic motivation. I was intrinsically motivated to participate in the lessons. The interest towards Chinese was building
An successful teaching outcome cannot only rely on one method to teaching. An effective teaching consists many different methods. There is no the best way to teach, only is the most suitable way to teach. Refering to the case I mentioned, my Chinese teacher used both operant conditioning, extrinsic and intrinsic motivations and incentive approach to improve students’ motivation in learning. The external reinforcement acted as a catalyst to initiate students’ interest in learning. After students got the goal successfully, they became more and more enjoy in learning. They want to learn because they are interested in. So, the extrinsic motivation became intrinsic motivation. It has been proposed by Wigfield (1997) “Instructors are encouraged to help students understand the value and importance of learning for themselves, but not frequently craving for external rewards and reinforcements. This is highly recommended in terms of setting intrinsic goals rather than using extrinsic motivation” (as cited in Simon A,