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EDUCATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY

 EDUCATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY                  

The term Educational psychology is derived from two independent disciplines which are EDUCATION and PSYCHOLOGY. Education brings its relationship with the subject psychology and developed a branch of applied psychology called Educational Psychology. It is a psychology as applied to education.

Educational psychology aims at applying general principles of psychology to educational practices with the aim of bringing effectiveness in the teaching-learning process and to bring modification in the behavior of the learner. Educational psychology is one of the branches of applied psychology and also considered as a positive sciences, which deals with the application of psychological principles, laws, theories, methods and techniques in the educational situation and to solve educational problem for promoting educational growth and development of an individual.


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