Skip to main content

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.


Labels:

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Meaning and Characteristics of Pedagogy

Meaning of Pedagogy The term ‘pedagogy’ is derived from the Greek words ‘paidagogia’ which means ‘Tutorship’. In simple word it is a term for educational science i.e. the study of classroom methodology and teaching techniques and it is the art and science of teaching. Characteristics of pedagogics of education 1.       Teaching is an art as well as science 2.       It relates to cognitive, affective and psychomotor domains. 3.       It involves observation. 4.       It takes into account individual difference of students. 5.        It has specific cultural base. 6.        It involves interaction. 7.        It has macro as well as well as micro-approach. 8.        It relates to teaching skills. Relationship between Teaching and Learning: The key ...
Post a Comment
Read more

Education a normative science

Education is a normative science that tries to find out norms or ideal of education acceptable to people. There are complicated problems of education, what subject to be included in the curriculum, what standard of discipline is maintained in school and so on. Education as a normative study tries to find out those problems that are generally acceptable. In order to determine acceptable norm it takes help of philosophy. It is the philosophy that may help education to perceive the problem as a whole comprising its pasts, present and future. It tries to arrive at a norm or ideal acceptable to the maximum number of people. So, education is thoughtful, reflective, speculative and normative subject of study. Ross has put it, “Education, however, is very much concerned with aims, ideals, standards and values and these in themselves are beyond the province of psychology.”
Post a Comment
Read more

Importance of Output Variables of Learning

Importance of Output Variables of Learning 1.     Difficulty of the Task: Difficult tasks take more time to learn. Sometimes it discourages the learners. 2.     Similarity of the Task: Task which have some similar elements are learnt better, more quickly and effectively. 3.     Meaningfulness of the Task: The more meaningful the material, the more rapid and easier is the learning. Meaningless material is difficult to be learnt. 4.     Length of the Task: The longer the task the more difficult it is to be learnt. 5.     Pleasantness and Un-pleasantness of the Task: Generally pleasant tasks learn easily than unpleasant tasks. 6.     Methods of Teaching: Dynamic and democratic methods of teaching give better results than the authoritarian or autocratic methods. 7.     Guidance: Guided learning is always better than unguided learning. Guidance saves time and energy of the l...
Post a Comment
Read more