Educational Psychology

Educational
Psychology

K.Thangavel,

Assistant Professor of Education,

Thiagarajar College of Preceptors (Aided)

Madurai, Tamil Nadu

COURSE OBJECTIVES

• CO1: Enable students to acquire knowledge about various methods of

psychology

• CO2: Gain knowledge about the concept of learning and its related

theories

• CO3: Understand motivation and its influence on human behavior
• CO4: Comprehend in-depth concepts of intelligence and creativity
• CO5: Explain the concepts and theories of personality

K.Thangavel, Assistant Professor, Thiagarajar College of

Preceptors (Aided) Madurai

K.Thangavel, Assistant Professor, Thiagarajar College of

Preceptors (Aided) Madurai

Psychology

• The word ‘psychology’ is derived from Greek words ‘psyche’ which

means soul .

• Logos means ‘study’.
• In early days psychology was regarded as study of soul.
• Study of Mind
• Study of Consciousness – William James (1890)
• Study of behaviour – William McDougall
• Pillsbury (1911) – Science of Human Behaviour

K.Thangavel, Assistant Professor, Thiagarajar College of

Preceptors (Aided) Madurai

Father of Psychology

Wilhelm Wundt, a German Physician.

He founded the first psychology
laboratory at Leipzig University in
1879.

K.Thangavel, Assistant Professor, Thiagarajar College of

Preceptors (Aided) Madurai

Meaning of Psychology

• Psychology

is

the

study

of

mind

and

behavior.

It

encompasses the biological influences, social pressures, and
environmental factors that affect how people think, act, and
feel.

• psychology is concerned with the science or study of the

mind and behavior.

• Psychology is the scientific study of the mind and behavior,

according to the American Psychological Association.

K.Thangavel, Assistant Professor, Thiagarajar College of

Preceptors (Aided) Madurai

Definition of Psychology

• Psychology is the science of the facts or phenomena of self.

- Dewey (1859-1952)

• Psychology is the science of behaviour and experience.

- Skinner (1904).

• Psychology is the scientific study of behaviour and mental processes.

- Feldman (2005)

K.Thangavel, Assistant Professor, Thiagarajar College of

Preceptors (Aided) Madurai