Dan Jezreel L.

Esguerra
BSED 1- Social Studies

What did you learn about LCP?

LCP or Learner-Centered Psychological Principles focuses on psychological

factors internal and created by the American Psychological Association or APA. Based
on APA there are 14 psychological principles that can help all learners from children,
adults, parents, teachers and community that will apply in educational system to be taught
and spread not just awareness but also knowledge about psychological principles. The
principles involves (1) cognitive and meta cognitive factors, (2) motivational and
affective factors, (3) developmental and social factors and lastly (4) individual and
differences factors.
One of the factors of learner-centered psychological is cognitive and meta
cognitive factor that focuses on the development of the learning itself and also how an
individual acquired the knowledge. The idea of knowledge is coming from the
experiences, it’s either you accidentally discover it or just naturally came to you. The
representation of knowledge to you will allow you to create meaningful and creative
imagination that will benefit to the development of your mind. The construction of
knowledge begins when you have existing knowledge, your mind will link new
knowledge and the existing and new knowledge will combine to build a knowledge itself.
Your mind will create reasoning to build a strategy on how to solve the existing problem
it allows your mind to think mindfully and carefully for you to be able to execute right
ideas or correct way to solve that problem. Thinking about thinking will help your mind
to facilitate and comprehend higher order strategies to create a healthy concept or idea in
a creative way. There is also factors that allows you to be influenced, and one of that
factor is the environment. In the environment, it will help you to gain more knowledge
and it allows you to become adaptive. It’s either the tradition, culture, concepts or the
experiences to gain you memory and automatically it will become knowledge.
Motivational and affective factors includes the emotions and how you
control it in every way, it’s either you react on it or just live with it. These factors are
vital on the development of a individual, by discovering your emotions will help you to
gain more thoughts that leads to questioning yourself. You will experience positive
emotions such as happy, enjoyment and also being delightful that will increase your
happy hormones and think stress free. When there is positive there is also negative and it
includes sadness and anxiety those emotions will affect motivation and affective it allows
your mind to think comprehensibly to escape negative emotion. Even curiosity will come,
you will able to experience it that will contribute to you to be able to learn. You will
realize something that question yourself and that something will lead you to curiosity,
you will find answers by the existing knowledge that you have. Implementing
developmental strategies to help yourself to gain more knowledge and increase the
improvement of your perception in life.
Many of us are learning by doing our things lightly, by means of that is when
we do some thing we do it happy or we enjoyed doing it. Our emotions are affected so
are our social development, because we used to go in different places everyday like
school, mall, church or parks. We collect every small details of knowledge by
discovering something new. In children, us adults should indulge and insert
understanding to be able to help children and allow them to develop at their own. Our
emotions will interpret our knowledge that we collect from our environment and to the
place we used to go. Socializing to others can also affects the learning and knowledge of
one individual, by interacting to one another sharing different insights and thoughts can
enhance the knowledge. Also by socializing, you will be discovering respect and
understanding because the thoughts and beliefs also the culture of a individual is different
from yours. Building relationship can provide a strong foundation from your intellectual
and cognitive development. By doing it, it can increase your confidence as an individual
to share to others what’s your emotion or how your emotions affect you. Building healhty
relationship is also building healthy community wherein you don’t feel anxious but you
will feel and establish happiness.
Based on individual differences factors, the learners are having different
strategies for them to learn new things it can be either by experience, environment or with
their heredity. So as a future educators, the sensitivity and understanding should be
implemented, in order to respect individuals personal and private perceptions in life. Not
just that, educators should plan and design new learning environment for the learners to
give them right attentions according to their needs. Part of the development is putting
high standards, in order to push the limits of one individual. To know whether he/she can
do it alone or can do it with help, to do that self- assessment is important to identify if the
sets standard is effective or not.