Boon Pong Ying

Email add : boonpongying@oum.edu.my

Educational Psychology (HMEF5043)
1. What is Pschology?
2. Behavioural Learning Theories
3. Cognitive Learning Theories

4. Information Processing Model

5. Constructivism and Metacognition
6. Critical and Creative Thinking

7. Individual Differences in Learning

8. Learning from Text
9. Motivation and Learning
10. Teaching for Better Learning
Outline for Seminar 1
What is
Psychology?

Cognitive Behavioural
Learning Theories Learning Theories
What is Psychology?
A scientific study of human
behaviour and mental processes
the scientific study of mind and
behavior or behavior and mental
processes), especially as it relates to
individual human beings
Psychology of Learning

 A scientific study of human behaviour

and mental processes related to
LEARNING, i.e. how humans learn –
Theories of Learning
History of Psychology
 Roots of Psychology – Hippocrates, Plato, Aristotle,
and Ibn Sinna
 The Beginnings of Modern Psychology – Descartes,
Locke, Kant
 The birth of psychology – Structuralism and
Functionalism; psychoanalysis; Behaviourism and
Cognitivism
Research Methods in Psychology
 Experiments
 Observational Methods
 Survey – Questionaires and Interviews
 Correlational Method
 Case Histories
Definition of Educational
Psychology
 Educational psychology is the combination of
psychology and education

 Psychology is the scientific study of the way

human mind works and how it influences
behavior while education is the process to
develop the potentials and skills of individual
in a specified area
• Psychology is the knowledge of the study of
human behavior and education is the
profession that researches and develops
methodology in the field of teaching and
learning in the classroom.
• Educational psychology is to use
knowledge from the discipline of
psychology that is relevant to education
and to apply this knowledge to improve the
quality and outcomes of the education
processes.
The study of educational
psychology includes
 human development,
 development during childhood and
adolescence,
 learning theories,
 motivation,
 personality and
 classroom assessment
Importance/Role Of Educational Psychology
 to understand student’s behaviour in the
teaching and learning process. This can done
through teacher observations of the students’
behaviours. By doing so, teachers can develop
alternative behaviours that are needed to change
students’ unwanted behaviour.

 The aims of educational psychology are focused

on four areas that is to describe, to explain, to
control and to predict a behaviour.
Educational psychology
 draws from general discipline of psychology to
improve the quality and outcome of the
education process. As a science, principles
and theories in educational psychology are
concerned about teaching and learning in the
classroom.
 to equip teachers with knowledge about
theories and principles of psychology so that
they can apply them in the classroom
 to make teachers aware of students’ individual
differences in the cognitive, affective and
psychomotor domains. These will enable
teachers to design teaching and learning
activities based on students’ potentials and
abilities.

 to equip teachers with knowledge about students

instincts and needs. This will enable teachers to
use motivation in teaching and learning
processes
Educational Psychology to improve learning and
understand students’ behaviours
As a teacher, educational psychology will provide
you with knowledge to enable you to handle the
different behaviours of students in your class.
You will be able to solve some of the behavioural
problems if you acquire knowledge on
educational psychology
Review and Reflect
 Describe some basic ideas about the field of
psychology and educational psychology. Why effective
teaching depends on both art and science?

 Dewey argued that children should not sit quietly in

their seats and learn in a rote manner. Do you agree
with Dewey? Why and why not?