Developmental and Educational Psychology

Description

Developmental psychology is also concerned with physical and social development such as the age at which boys and girls start differentiating between each other or the dynamics of middle aged adults. They also study humans in the womb, especially in the later phases to be engaging in conscious actions. The child learns that mother cares, responds to his call, and provides him with good food and protection from the elements. Some children, unfortunately, learn that mother is inconsistent, unpredictable, and not always to be trusted. This can have an adverse influence on their development. Educational psychology is the study of how humans learn in educational settings, the effectiveness of educational interventions, the psychology of teaching, and the social psychology of schools as organizations. Educational psychologist have worked on human motivation and have tried to advise teachers to use methods of teaching with the help of these findings. Developmental information helps you to see the child in relationship both to normative expectations and to his own uniqueness and particular style of life. As your awareness of the significance of developmental patterns grows, the child will be seen in relationship to the sequence of development. It will be easier to understand his problems if you try to understand what he is specifically attempting to accomplish as an individual and how his efforts fit his particular pattern. This book opens up the broad discipline of educational psychology with an emphasis on helping students and teachers to understand the concept and theories of the subject and making them expertise in both teaching and learning.