The course on Educational Psychology

1. Course on Educational Psychology
By SMOEYURN PONG

2. Outline
• Human Development : Concept, Process,
• Personality : Concept, Traits, Sources
• Context of Human development
• Framework of Human Development.

3. Learning Objectives
 Describe the definition, process and kinds of
human development.
 Identify the human personality and traits.
 Explain the contexts influence the human
development and personality.
 Discuss the understanding of human
development and personality into the real life
and teaching career.

4. Human Development
 What is Development?
 What is Human Development?
 Human Development : is a pattern of
movement or change or growth that
begins at conception and continue
throughout the life span.
 Human development includes biological/
physical, socio-emotional, cognitive,
moral and linguistic growth or changes.

5. Human Developmental
Process
 Biological Processes : involve change in
the individual’s physical nature. Genes
inherited from parents, the development
of the brain, height and weight gains,
changes in motor skills and the
hormonal changes for puberty all reflect
the role of biological processes in
development.

6. Human Developmental
Process
 Socio-emotional Processes : involve
changes in the individual’s relationships
with other people, changes in emotions ,
feeling and personality. An infant's smile
in response to her mother, adolescent’s
joy, affection of couple, engagement of
adults… reflect the role of the socio
emotional development.

7. Human Developmental
Process
 Cognitive Processes : involve changes in
the individual’s thought, perception,
concept, memory, intelligence, language,
problem solving and metacognition…
 Putting together two-word sentence,
memorizing a poem, and reasoning.. all
reflect the role of cognitive process.
 Biological, cognitive and social-emotional
processes are intricately interwoven.

8. PERSONALITY
 Personality : distinctive and stable
pattern of behavior, thoughts, motives,
cognition and emotions that
characterizes an individual throughout
life.
• Trait : refers to enduring personal
characteristic, habitual way of
behaving, thinking, and feeling, that
reveal in a particular pattern of
behavior in a variety of situation.

9. Big Five Traits of
Personality
 Openness : Tendency to appreciate for
intellectual curiosity, variety of
experiences , preference of novelty and
imagination.
 Conscientiousness : Tendency to be
organized, show self-discipline, aim for
achievement and direct impulse.
 Extraversion : Tendency to engage with
the external world, have positive
emotion, sociability and assertiveness.

10. Big Five Traits of
Personality
 Agreeableness : Tendency to be coope-
rative, compassionate toward others,
value getting along with others and
willing to compromise their interest with
others.
 Neuroticism : Tendency to experience
negative emotions such as anger,
anxiety depression and vulnerability. It
is also called emotional instability.

11. Sources of Personality Development
Personality
Environment
(culture, family, life
experience, school)
Heredity/ Biology
(genetics, brain
Similarities Differences

12. The Context of Human Development
Bronfenbrenner (1979) provides a theory
of the layers of context, environment, or
ecology of human development:
Microsystem
The most immediate and
earliest influences such as
family, school, religious
institutions and peer groups
and their interactions.

13. The Context of Human Development

14. The Context of Human Development
Bronfenbrenner (1979) provides a theory
of the layers of context, environment, or
ecology of human development:
Mesosystem
An intermediate level of
influences such as local
neighborhood or
community, social
institutions and culture and
their interactions

15. The Context of Human Development

16. The Context of Human Development
Bronfenbrenner (1979) provides a theory
of the layers of context, environment, or
ecology of human development:
Macrosystem
The most removed
influences such as
international region or
global changes and their
interactions.

18. The Context of Human Development
While we sometimes tend to focus on
family or school influences on human
development, we should always
remember that there are other
important influences. (W. Huitt, 1999)

19. Understanding
Human
Development
Physical
Development
Cognitive
Development
Social-
emotional
Development
Moral
Development
Linguistic
Development
Spiritual
Development
Personality
Development
Framework of Human Development

20. Human being is inherently
 biological
 sensing and
perceiving
 emotional
 intelligent
 rational thinking
 creative thinking
• language using
• knowledge creating
• social
• motivated
• patterned
• able to be conditioned
• developing

21. Review
 What is human development?
 What kinds of human development?
 What do the factors influence the human
development and personality?
 Why do we need to understand the human
development and personality?