EDU-M-T-2 (KU2)Sikshar Manastatwik Vitti (Psychological Foundation of Education)

Kalyani University (2nd Semester)
Course: EDU-M-T-2
PSYCHOLOGICAL FOUNDATION OF EDUCATION
Unit-I: Educational Psychology and Developmental aspects of human life
(a) Concept, Nature and Scope; Distinction between Psychology and
Educational Psychology.
(b) Growth and Development: Stages and aspects of development in human
life; Physical, Social, Emotional, Cognitive (Piaget's view) and
Language development of Infancy, Childhood and Adolescence period
and respective educational programmes.
Unit-II: Learning
(a) Definition and characteristics of Learning; Factors influencing learning.
(b) Theories of learning and their implications: Classical and Operant
conditioning, Trial and Error, Insightful Learning.
(c) Transfer of Learning: Concept, Types and Strategies for promoting
transfer.
(d) Motivation: Types, factors and Role of Motivation in learning,
Maslow’s theory of motivation and its educational implication.
(e) Memorization: Definition, factors, LTM, STM, Strategies for effective
memorization. Forgetting—meaning and causes.
Unit-III: Intelligence and Creativity
(a) Intelligence: Definition; Theories of Intelligence and their
implications—Spearman, Thurstone, Guilford and Gardner;
Measurement of Intelligence—verbal, non-verbal, and performance test.
(b) Creativity: meaning, nature, factors, and nurturing. Brainstorming as a
technique.
Unit-IV: Personality
(a) Definition; Heredity and Environment as determinants of Personality.
(b) Type theories (Sheldon, Kretchmer) and Trait theories (Allport, Cattell),
Psychoanalytical theory.
(c) Measurement of Personality—projective test and non-projective test.
Unit-V: Individual Differences
(a) Individual differences.
● Meaning, nature, and
● Role of heredity, environment and culture
● Implication on education