Educational Psychology Essay

Introduction

Psychology can be described as the scientific study of how humans and animal behave and how they use their brain to do things. Understating the concepts of how things are done is very much important in psychology. There are many components of psychology. Educational psychology is one of the component in psychology which deals with the learning process and psychological issues associated with the teaching and training of the students.

In this assignment the aim is to evaluate if it is able to apply different concepts of educational psychology in daily life by the students. In this respect 12 scopes of educational psychology will be discussed in depth with justification.

Study of stages of child development

There are four main

In this specific stage child is less or not egocentric so that they can think critically. Final stage of child development is formal operational stage. Children above 11 years would be able to do things without depending on concrete manipulations. In this stage child thinks creatively and starts to use abstract reasoning and imagine the outcome of particular actions.

Study of heredity and environment

In education heredity relates to the characteristics of the child such as the IQ level of the student, behavior and so on. Heredity and environment is very much linked to one another. Most of the characters can be changed or improved by the environment. The child might have anger by heredity but if the child get enough attention and love from the surrounding environment, the character can be changed or improved.

Study of learning process By studying the learning process in educational psychology we become to know that this process involves nature and process of learning. So we would be knowing about laws, methods of learning, factors of learning, interest, attention, motivation, memory, habits and transfer of training play. There are many methods of learning but still we have limitation for

Like all others there will be some against perspectives towards the scopes of educational psychology. How hard a teacher tries to be well prepared for a lesson there will be always some missing things in the lesson or while teaching or it may be how you are dealing with the child? Even in the study of child development there are three stages, we were not able to categorize all the children according to the stages. In the first stage child of 4 or 5 month, might find the object without any intention of finding the object. Like that a 7 years old child might be able to see from others angle but without much interest he or she might say something else. So that we would be not able to know their real level. The observer’s own interests, values may affect the interpretation of the data to a great extent. KKHSOU,