INTRO TO EDUC PSYCH Flashcards
“Educational psychology is the
science of education”.
E.A. Peel (Edwin Arthur Peel, was a British educational psychologist)
____________ is that branch of psychology which deals with the application of psychological findings in the field of education.
Educational psychology
“PSYCHOLOGY IS THE SCIENCE OF
BEHAVIOUR AND EXPERIENCE.”
Burrhus Frederic Skinner/ B.F. Skinner
(Proposed the theory of Operant Conditioning)
______________ (October 17, 1869 – July 4, 1962) was an American psychologist and the creator of the personality test
Robert Sessions Woodworth
“ Educational psychology is the branch of psychology which deals with teaching and learning”.
C.E. SKINNER (Charles E. Skinner)
“Educational psychology a scientific study of the life stages in the development of an individual from the time he is born until he becomes an adult”.
Judd (Charles Hubbard Judd)
According to him, “First Psychology lost its soul, then it lost its mind, then its lost consciousness. It still has behaviour of a sort”.
Robert Sessions Woodworth
Educational Psychology is a ___________
Normative science like Logic or Ethics
deals with facts as they ought to be. A
positive science deals with facts as they are or as they operate. Educational psychology studies the child’s behaviour as it is, not, as it ought to be. So it is a positive science.
positive science
Educational Psychology is a ___________
An educational psychologist conducts
his investigations, gathers his data and
reaches his Conclusions in exactly the
same manner as physicist or the
biologist.
natural science
At the beginning of the ____ century, when psychologists attempted to develop
psychology into a pure science, it came to be defined as the science of behaviour.
20th
____________ defined psychology as the science of mental processes.
William James (1892)
It is designed as the service of education.
Educational Psychology
But ______ is something metaphysical. It cannot be seen, observed and touched and we cannot make scientific experiments on it.
soul
Psyche means ‘____’ and ‘Logos’ means ‘_____’
soul, science
____________ Pillsbury’s Essentials of
Psychology (1911) was first to defined psychology as the “study of behavior”
Walter Bowers
Educational Psychology is a ___________
It is the application of psychological principles in the field of education. By applying the principles and techniques of psychology, it tries to study the behaviour and experiences of the pupils. As a branch of psychology it is parallel to any other applied psychology.
For example, educational psychology draws heavily facts from such areas as developmental psychology, clinical psychology, abnormal psychology
and social psychology.
applied science
_________, German physician, physiologist, and philosopher, defined psychology as the science which studies the “internal experiences”.
But there are three levels of consciousness-conscious, subconscious and the unconscious do this definition also was not accepted by some.
Wilhelm Wundt (1892)
It is the scientific study of human behaviour by which it can be understood,
predicted and directed by education to achieve goals of life.
Educational psychology
“educational psychology helps the teacher to understand the development of his pupils, the range and limits in their capacities, the processes by which they learn and their social relationships.”
E.A. Peel
__________ an american psychologist who popularized the term behavior.
John Watson
“PSYCHOLOGY IS THE SCIENTIFIC STUDY OF THE BEHAVIOUR OF LIVING CREATURES IN THEIR CONTACT WITH
THE OUTER WORLD.”
Kurt Koffka
“Educational psychology is the study of educational growth and development.”
Stephens (Stephen Bourke)
“PSYCHOLOGY IS THE SCIENCE WHICH AIMS TO GIVE US BETTER UNDERSTANDING AND CONTROL OF THE
BEHAVIOUR OF THE ORGANISM AS A WHOLE.”-
William Mcdougall
Educational Psychology is a ___________
Like the sociologist, anthropologist,
economist or political scientist, the
educational psychologist studies
human beings and their sociability.
social science
In ancient time, the Greek Philosophers like ________ and __________ interpreted Psychology as the science of the soul and studied it as a branch of philosophy.
Plato, Aristotle
_____________________ is one of the branches of psychology to study the
behaviour of the learner in relation to his /her education.
As specialized branch of psychology concerns itself with suggesting ways and
means of improving the process and products of education, enabling the teacher to teach effectively and the learn effectively with the minimum effort.
Educational Psychology
“PSYCHOLOGY IS THE STUDY OF HUMAN
BEHAVIOUR AND HUMAN RELATIONSHIPS.”
Gregory Crow
Educational Psychology is a ___________
(Science is a branch of study concerned with observation of facts and establishment of verifiable general laws. Science employs certain objective methods for the collection of data. It has its objectives of understanding, explaining, predicting and control of facts.) Like any other science, educational psychology has also developed objective methods of collection of data. It also aims at understanding, predicting and controlling human behaviour.)
science
“Educational psychology describes and explains learning experience of
individual from birth to old age”.
Crow and Crow
it deals with the human behaviour in educational situations. It is the systematic
study of the development of the individual in the educational settings.
Educational psychology
It has simplified the tasks and improved the efficiency of the teacher or all those connected in the process and products of education by supplying them with the essential knowledge and skills in much need the same way as science and technology has helped in making
possible __________ output through _______ input in terms of time and labour in our day-to-day activities.
maximum, minimum
It was German philosophers ______________ who defined Psychology as the science of the mind.
Immanuel Kant
____________ was an early 20th century
psychologist who spent the
first part of his career in the United Kingdom and the latter part in the United States development of the theory of instinct and of social psychology in the
English-speaking world
William McDougall
____________ A British psychologist, defined psychology as the “Science of the Inner World”.
James Sully (1884)
Educational Psychology is a ___________
It is concerned with new and ever
new researches. As research findings accumulate, educational psychologists get better insight into the child’s nature and behaviour.
growing science
He describes, “Educational psychology is the study of psychological aspects of educational situations.”
Trow (Trow Clark Willam)
