MA-2 MB-2 Sikshar Manastatwobishoyak Vitti (Psychological Foundation of Education) (Minor)

West Bengal State University (2nd Semester)
Education as a Minor Discipline 2 (MA-2/MB-2/MC-2)
PSYCHOLOGICAL FOUNDATION OF EDUCATION
Unit-1: Introduction to Educational Psychology
● Relationship between Psychology and Education.
● Educational Psychology—concept and nature, Significance
of Educational Psychology.
Unit-2: Psychology of Human Development and Education
● Human Development—concept, principles, types and stages.
● Concept of Physical, Motor, Cognitive, Moral development
and its significance in Education.
Unit-3: Attention and Memory
● Concept, Nature and determinants of Attention.
● Concept and process of memorization, causes of forgetting.
Unit-4: Personality and Education
● Personality—concept, characteristics, types.
● Psychoanalytic Theory by Freud.
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