CC-2 Psychological Foundation of Education

UNIVERSITY OF CALCUTTA
Major: EDC/H/CC/2/2 Minor: EDC/M/1/1
MDC: EDC/MD/CC/1/2 or CC/2/2
PSYCHOLOGICAL FOUNDATION OF EDUCATION
Unit-1: Relation between Psychology and Education
● Meaning and definition of Education and Psychology and their
relationship.
● Learning: Concept and characteristics.
● Memorization and Forgetting: Process of memorization, causes
of forgetting and economical ways of improving memorization.
● Personality: Concept, definition, Personality traits.
Unit-2: Stages and Types of Human Development and their
Educational Significance
● Piaget’s cognitive development theory.
● Erikson’s psycho-social development theory.
● Kohlberg’s moral development theory.
● Vygotsky’s social development theory.
Unit-3: Intelligence
● Concept of intelligence.
● Theories of Intelligence by Spearman, Thorndike and Guilford.
● Types and uses of intelligence tests.
● Concept of Emotional Intelligence and EQ.