For Learners who are pursuing degree in Education. The video is uploaded with an audio in local language.

1. Presented by:
Dr. Indrani Kalita
Assistant Professor
Department of Education, KKHSOU

2. Psychology
Derived from two Greek words
Psyche Logos
(Soul) (Science)
Psychology as science of soul

3.  The concept of psychology has been evolved
through four stages:
Psychology as Science of Soul
Psychology as Science of Mind
Psychology as Science of
Consciousness
Psychology as Science of Behaviour

4. Soul
Mind
Consciousness
Behaviour
Behaviour= Conscious + Unconscious

5.  Educational psychology is an applied branch of Psychology.
 This branch of Psychology studies the human behaviour in
educational situations.
 Educational psychology consists of two words, ‘Education’ and
‘Psychology’. Here, ‘Psychology’ means the study of human
behaviour and ‘Education’ means the modification of human
behaviour.
 Educational psychology helps the teacher to understand the
children’s behaviour, their interest, their innate capacities and
intelligence, will and sentiments, habits and attitudes and other
factors which are responsible for the growth and development
of the children as well as their behavioral changes.

6. Photo Courtesy: https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=509250
Johann Heinrich
Pestalozzi

7.  Educational Psychology is an applied science .
 It is positive science.
 It is a social science .
 It is also an educational science.
 It is a specific science.
 It is a growing and developing science.
 It is also an academic discipline.

8.  It studies learner behaviour in an educational
environment.
 It deals with the development of a child in the
learning process.
 It studies the laws of learning, methods of
learning, nature and theories of learning.
 Educational psychology studies the influence
of heredity and environment in the growth of a
child’s personality.

9.  It also studies the individual differences in the
educational situation.
 It also deals with the evaluation of learning
performance of a child.
• It provides guidance and counseling to learners
for their all round development.
• It also help us to study the mental abilities or
helps in mental measurement.
• Besides it also helps to maintain mental
hygiene of every child in the classroom.

10.  It helps to understand the development of a child in
different stages.
 Knowledge of educational psychology helps a teacher
to understand individual differences in a classroom.
 Educational psychology helps the teacher to know the
ways of the learning process in general and the
problems of classroom learning in particular.
 It helps the teacher in applying the appropriate
methods of teaching.

11.  It helps a teacher to understand the concept of mental
health and also helps him to know how to maintain
the mental health among the students in the school.
 It helps a teacher to understand the problems of
children and provide remedial measures to such
problems.
 Knowledge of Educational Psychology helps in
preparation of effective curriculum for different stages
of learning.
 Provides knowledge of influence of heredity and
environment upon one’s personality.

12.  Educational psychology helps the teacher to asses the
learning outcome of the student.
 Educational Psychology helps the teacher to study and
to realize the situation for improving the teaching-
learning processes in the school.
 It equips teacher with the knowledge about mental
abnormalities.
 Educational psychology can help the teacher by
providing knowledge of such innovation; micro
teaching, group discussion, team teaching etc