DS-2 Siksha-Manastatwo (Educational Psychology) (Major)

West Bengal State University (2nd Semester)
Major Course: DS-2 (EDUDSC202T)
EDUCATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY
Unit-1: Introduction to Educational Psychology
(a) Concept of Psychology, Nature and Scope of Educational
Psychology.
(b) Relation between Education and Psychology.
(c) Introduction to Neuro-physiological bases of human behaviourstructure
and function of human brain and Neuron, Concept of
Synaptic transmission and endocrinal Gland.
(d) Concept of Sensation and Perception.
Unit-2: Psychology of Human Development and Education
(a) Human Development—Concept, Principles, Types and Stages.
(b) Cognitive Development (Piaget) and its significance in education.
(c) Moral Development (Kohlberg) and its significance in education.
(d) Psycho-social Development (Erikson) and its significance in
education.
(e) Personality—Concept, Types (Jung, Adler), Personality
Development by Freud.
Unit-3: Intelligence and Creativity
(a) Intelligence—concept and scope.
(b) Theories of Intelligence—Guildford, Gardner, Sternberg.
(c) Creativity—Concept, Scope and characteristics of a creative person.
(d) Inter-relationship among Intelligence, Creativity and Education.
Unit-4: Psychology of Learning
(a) Learning—Concept and Scope.
(b) Factors influencing learning—Attention, Maturation, Motivation
and Emotion (concept only).
(c) Theories of Learning—Pavlov, Skinner, Bandura and Vygotsky.