Psychological Foundations of Education presents key psychological principles relevant to learning and teaching, including teachers' attitudes and behavior, types of learning, technology in education, forgetting, child development, and intelligence measurement. It provides an alternative perspective to the divide between general and educational psychology within teacher preparation curricula. Psychology contributes to understanding educational aims by defining and clarifying them, and influences education through features related to the learning and teaching process. It also provides education with a scientific basis and objective methods of experimentation and analysis of the mind.

1. Psychological
Foundation of
Education
Concept Teaching

2. Psychological
Foundations
of Education
• Psychological Foundations of Education presents
some of the principles of psychology that are
relevant to learning and teaching. It presents an
alternative answer to the problem of the bifurcation
of general and educational psychology in the
curriculum of teacher preparation.
• Key concepts discussed include teachers’ attitudes
and behavior, different types of learning, technology
in education, forgetting and extinction, child
development, and intelligence measurements.

3. How can we
relate
psychology
to
education?
• Psychology contributes to a better understanding of the aims of
education by defining them and making them clearer. Psychology
makes ideas of educational aims clearer. It influences education
very strongly due to its blend with different features pertaining to
learning and teaching.
• Psychology provides a scientific base to education. It also gives a
dignified appearance and discipline to it. One can use the
methods of experimentation, due to psychology’s contribution to
education. An analysis has been carried out on the tendency and
power of the mind, by using psychological methodologies.
Measuring the capacity of the mind has become feasible with
psychology as an objective science. In addition, one can also
demarcate the different dimensions of mental operations.

4. What is
educational
psychology?
• Educational psychology involves the study of how
people learn, including concepts such as student
outcomes, instructional process, and individual
differences in learning and learning disabilities.
• It is one of the many branches of psychology dealing
mainly with the problems, processes and products of
education.
• This branch of psychology involves not just the learning
process of early childhood and adolescence, but also
includes the social, emotional and cognitive processes
that are involved in learning throughout the entire
lifespan.

5. Definition of
educational
psychology
according to
some
researchers.
• B. F. Skinner (1958)
- Educational psychology is that branch of psychology,
which deals with teaching and learning.
• Crow and Crow (1973)
- Educational psychology describes and explains the
learning experiences of an individual from birth through
old age.
• E. A. Peel (1956)
- define and describe educational psychology as the
science of education, i.e., a discipline that can be used to
improve the process and products of education in a
scientific way.

6. References
• EDCN-702C-Psycological Foundation of
Education_Binder
• https://thekashmirimages.com/2018/11/22/psychologi
cal-bases-of-education/
• https://www.elsevier.com/books/psychological-
foundations-of-education/mathis/978-0-12-480150-9