Educational Psychology Overview

Using psychological tools to assess learning and adjust teaching methods.

Understanding a teacher's strengths, weaknesses, and preferences, leading to better teaching strategies.

Educational psychology is applicable to developing personality, research, guidance, character development, scheduling, co-curricular activities, and using audio-visual aids for discipline.

While educational psychology provides theories, practical teaching success relies on much more (teacher's ability, experience, approach).

Students' behaviors and responses vary greatly, making consistent results across all difficult to achieve.

A school of psychology emphasizing that we perceive things as wholes, not just a collection of parts. This concept stresses that the 'whole is different from the sum of its parts.'

Learning that occurs suddenly, by understanding the relationships between elements, rather than gradual accumulation of knowledge.

It encourages creating organized learning materials, using interdisciplinary approaches, motivating students with goals, and turning learning into meaningful tasks, not just drills.

Developed by Sigmund Freud, it investigates human behavior and mental illnesses by analyzing unconscious drives, desires, and conflicts.

Freud divided the human psyche into conscious (aware thoughts), subconscious (easily accessible), and unconscious (hidden, primal drives like sex and aggression).

Id: the animalistic instincts, seeking immediate gratification. Ego: the mediator between id and superego, controlling reality. Superego: morality and conscience, dictating right/wrong.

Freud believed the sex motive was a fundamental driving force in human behavior, shaping our actions and thoughts across all ages.

These are principles in Gestalt psychology that help explain how we perceive groups. Similar items (shape, size, color) are grouped together. Items in proximity are also grouped together.