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How do educational psychologists define "practice"?

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How do educational psychologists define "practice"?

Louis Pugliese (Lecturer in Educational Psychology, CSUN, Certified by the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards) gives expert video advice on: What conditions stimulate learning?; How can I help my child be more motivated in the classroom? and more...

Educational psychologists define practice as the rehearsal, the repetition of information that we are trying to commit to memory, and we do that in many ways. The knowledge can be procedural knowledge; the way to do something, or the knowledge can be an association between two things. We put milk in our cereal, we learn that when we are very young. So by doing that over and over and practising, we finally learn that those two things go together. We associate them with a larger scheme that we call breakfast, and the brain organizes information in this way.

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