2. -The learner is more important.
-Knowing the learner and the techniques of knowing him/her well.
- Innate abilities and capacities of the individuals,
- Individual differences and their measurements,
- The overt, covert, conscious as well as unconscious behaviour of
the learner,
- Characteristics of his/her growth and development and each stage
beginning from childhood to adulthood.
3. - Understanding the Stages of Development
- Easy To Spot Individual Difference
- Providing The Right Guidance
- Learning of Effective Teaching Methods
- Assessing Learning Outcomes
- Enabling a teacher that how learning process should be
initiated, how to motivate, how to memorize or learn.
- Informing a teacher, about the nature of the learners and his
potentialities.
- Helping a teacher to develop a student personality because
the whole educational process is for student’s personality
development.
- Helping a teacher to adjust his/her methodologies of learning
to the nature / demand of the learner.
- Enabling a teacher to know the problems of individual
differences and treat every student on his / her merit.
- Helping a teacher that how to solve the learning problems of a
student.
The teacher is a potent force is any
scheme of teaching and learning process.
4. Educational Psychology helps in deciding what learning
experiences are desirable, at what stage of the growth and
development of the learner, so that these experiences can be
acquired with a greater ease and satisfaction.
5. After knowing the learner and deciding what learning experiences are to
be provided, Educational Psychology moves on to the laws, principles
and theories of learning. Other items in the learning process are
remembering and forgetting, perceiving, concept formation, thinking
and reasoning, problem solving, transfer of learning, ways and means of
effective learning etc.
6. For the smooth functioning of the
teaching-learning process, the
environmental factors and learning
situations are midway between the
learner and the teacher.
CLASSROOM CLIMATE AND GROUP
DYNAMICS,
TECHNIQUES AND AIDS THAT FACILITATE
LEARNING
EVALUATION, TECHNIQUES AND
PRACTICES,
GUIDANCE AND COUNSELLING ETC.
7. Evaluation plays an important role.
Even when we want to cross a road we make a judgment
whether it is safe to cross the road.
Effectiveness of learning process always depends on the
evaluation as it gives the knowledge of result which helps
the learner as well as the teacher to modify or correct
oneself.
Educational psychology explains the different methods of
assessment contributing to the effectiveness of learning
process.
Knowing the learner, acquiring the essential skill in teaching
and evaluation are the focal points in the study of
educational psychology.
8. It is universally accepted that every individual differs
from every other individual. This idea has been brought
to light by Educational Psychology.
9. Education is providing guidance and counselling required for the proper development
of the child. This is very true, especially in the light of the extremely complex and
problematic situation one has to face in the fast growing world. Educational psychology
has come to the rescue by developing principles and practical measures helpful for
providing effective guidance and counselling.
10. Educational studies human
behaviour in the educational context.
Psychology is the study of behaviour
and education aims at modification
of behaviour.
Hence the influence of Educational
Psychology has to be reflected in all
aspects of education.
11. It studies the principles governing growth and development.
12. Heredity can affect a lot of things in a child, including the development and growth of the brain
to learn and grasp new things. Along with this, the environment a child grows up in also plays
a major part. Educational psychologists determine to what extent heredity and environment
contribute toward the growth of the individual and how this knowledge can be used for
bringing about the optimum development of the child.
13. A teacher or a tutor needs to understand the nature of the study. The scope of
Educational Psychology includes the study of the nature of intelligence as well as its
measurement.
14. Educational psychology helps to understand the different
dimensions of the process of the development of the
personality of an individual and defects in the personality
can also be studied.