Educational Psychology
Course Outline
• Chapter-1. Introduction to Educational Psychology
• Chapter-2. Human Development
• Chapter-3. Learning Process
• Chapter-4. Motivation In Learning
• Chapter-5. Individual Differences
• Chapter-6. Class Room Management
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CHAPTER: ONE
INTRODUCTION TO EDUCATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY
Educational Psychology is a combination of two
separate fields of study;
EDUCATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY
EDUCATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY
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Meaning and Definition
OF
PSYCHOLOGY
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Meaning of psychology
The term "psychology" is derived from two
Greek words –
• Psyche –soul –Spirit-Mind
• Logos -science or study
Thus, literally it means study or science of
soul/Mind.
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EDUCATION
• Education can be defined as the process of
imparting or acquiring knowledge and habits
through instruction or study.
• Is the process of bringing desirable change into
the behavior of human beings.
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EDUCATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY
• Educational psychology deals with behavior of
human beings in educational situation.
• Is a branch of psychology, which deals with
teaching and learning.
• Is the discipline concerned with teaching and
learning processes.
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What makes different
• Educational psychology is distinct from other
fields of psychology due to its focus on
understanding the processes of
teaching and learning that takes
place in formal environments.
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NATURE AND SCOPE
OF
EDUCATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY
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Nature of Educational Psychology
• It is an applied branch of Psychology.
• It combines two fields i.e. education and
psychology.
• It is the scientific study of human behavior in
educational situation.
• It is concerned with factors, principles and
techniques which relate to the various aspects of
child’s growth and development.
• It is concerned with learning situation and
process by which learning can be more efficient
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Scope of Educational
Psychology
Human learning is the central core of educational
psychology.
Five major areas of Educational Psychology are:
• The Learner
• The learning Process
• The learning Situation
• Assessment of Learning Performance
• The Teacher
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The Learner
Educational Psychology help us to know the learner
and deals with the techniques of knowing the
Learner.
• The innate abilities and capabilities of the individual
differences
• Their measurements
• The overt
• Convert
• Conscious as well as unconscious behavior of the
learner
• The characteristics of his growth and development at
each stage beginning from childhood to adulthood. 11
The learning Process
• After knowing the learner and deciding what
learning experiences are to be provided,
• The emerging problem is to help learner in
acquiring these learning experiences with ease
and confidence.
• Hence, it deals with the nature of learning and
how it take place.
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The learning Situation
• It also deals with the environment factors
and learning situation which come midway
between the learner and the teacher.
• Classroom climate and group dynamics techniques
and aids which facilitate learning, evaluation
techniques, and practices, guidance and
counseling etc.
• Which help in the smooth functioning of the
teaching learning process.
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Assessment of Learning
Performance
• Main objective of education is all round
development of the learner.
• It includes cognitive, affective and
psychomotor aspects of personality.
• Educational Psychology suggests various tool
and techniques for assessment and
evaluation such as performance test, oral
test and written test.
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The Teacher
• Educational Psychology emphasizes the need
of knowing the self for a teacher to play his
role properly in the process of education.
• It throws light on the essential personality
traits, interests, aptitudes, the characteristics
of effective teaching etc.,
• So as to inspire, help teacher handle the stress,
conflict and anxiety by giving insight in their
own personality.
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• In General Educational psychology deals with
the behavior of human beings in educational
situations.
• Its main concerned is to identify various
psychological factors affecting teaching and
learning process.
• It describes and explains the learning according
to scientifically determined principles and facts
concerning human behavior.
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Conti….
• Educational psychology addresses the questions
• “why do some individual learn more than
others" and
• "what can be done to improve that learning."
• Therefore, its subject matter is revolved around
teaching and learning process.
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The Role of Educational
Psychology
• Understanding and improvement of instruction
• Understanding what people think and do as they
teach and learn
• What Teacher think and do as they teach
• What Learner think and do as they learn
• Solving the everyday problems of education
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End of
Chapter One
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