Educational psychology: Educational psychology is a branch of psychology and is concerned with the application of general psychological principles to the problem of education. It is a study of behaviour of the individuals in response to the educational environment.
According to D. P. Anusuble, Educational psychology is the special branch of psychology concerned with the nature, conditions, outcome and evaluation of school learning and retention.
Under the following point’s the needs as signification studies psychology in Education can be discussed:
(1) Individual difference: It is due to psychological findings that we pay more attention to the problem of individual difference among children in education.
(2) Rates of Individual development: Psychology helps the education to recognise the individual rates of progress in respect of learning and proceed accordingly in the field of education.
(3) Types of learning: We learn by different methods. Therefore it is very much important for the teacher to the acquainted with the types of learning formed out by psychology.
(4) Nature and measurements of intelligence: The most important contribution of psychology to the field of education is its valuable findings regarding the nature and measurements of intelligence.
(5) Attention, Memory, forgetting, interest etc.
In respect of the above mentioned subject also the modern teacher is greatly indebted to psychology.
(6) Instinct and Educations: It is psychology which pointed out that education has an intimate relation with instinct and education.
(7) Group psychology: Modern education utilises many principles of Groups Psychology while teaching a class or group.
(8) Problem of maladjustment: Teachers are greatly helped today by the knowledge of psychology in dealing with problem of personality maladjustment.
(9) Classroom teaching: Education psychology contributes immensely to class room teaching.
(10) Psychological Testing: Education is greatly indebted to psychology for supplying the workable materials of testing mental abilities.
(11) Evaluation: The process of evaluation is greatly indebted to educational psychology.
(12) Parent teacher administrator relation: Education psychology helps the parents teacher and school administrators to run the process of education.
(13) Improved method of teaching: Knowledge of psychology helps the teacher to improve his teaching method for the benefit of students.
(14) Heredity and Environment: Heredity and environment plays decisive roles in the growth and development of children. This knowledge is very much important for the educator.
