Educational Psychology: Definition, Meaning and Principles

Definition:

1. Skinner (1958), It is a branch of Psychology, which deals with teaching and learning process.
2. Crow/Crow, explains the learning experiences of an individual from birth to old age.
3. Peel (1956) It is the science of education.

Meaning:

1. It will enable him to know and understand just the people for whom he is employed and for whom the whole school organization is tended the pupils.
2. A result of this knowledge the teacher will feel in himself greater power over the pupils to mould and shape them in a definite direction.
3. Psychology will help the teacher to know himself and accordingly to adjust himself better the the school environment.

Principles:

1. Well organised, systematic and universally accepted body of facts supported by the relevant psychological laws and principles.
2. It is constantly in search of the truth.
3. It employs scientific methods.
4. Logical viability. reliability and validity
5. Cause and effect.
6. What/ why answerable one.
7. Positive science not normative procedures.
8. Generalization.

Nature of Educational Psychology