Educational psychology has the function of describing, explaining, predicting and controlling educational practice. In practical application, these functions are often intertwined, including the following four aspects: helping teachers understand the problem accurately; Provide scientific theoretical guidance for practical teaching; Help teachers predict and interfere with students; Help teachers conduct research in combination with teaching practice.

The study of human psychology is one of the important subjects in 2 1 century. Educational psychology will study psychological laws from the perspective of education and supplement and expand psychological theories. With the awakening of the importance of education, people gradually notice that there are still many laws in pedagogy that need to be improved. The study of educational psychology will help to improve these laws.

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The research significance of educational psychology;

1. Educational psychology is helpful to improve teachers' level: the focus of teachers' team building is teachers, whose quality includes both professional quality and educational quality. Educational psychology is an important part of educational theory and technology, which not only helps to improve teachers' theoretical literacy, but also helps to improve teachers' ability to solve practical educational problems.

2. Educational psychology is conducive to improving the quality of education and teaching: Educational psychology helps teachers to understand students more deeply and improve the pertinence of education and teaching. Learning educational psychology can help us understand the psychological basis of teaching methods more deeply, so as to master teaching methods and educational means more actively and scientifically, enrich our teaching art and improve teaching quality in an all-round way.

3. Educational psychology contributes to the reform of education and teaching: Throughout the international and domestic successful education and teaching reforms, it is psychology, mainly educational psychology. The most typical examples are Bruner in the United States, zankov in the former Soviet Union and Wagenshein (he is a psychologist). These three world education reformers appeared in 1950s and 1960s respectively.

Learning educational psychology is conducive to improving the level of dialectical materialism and teachers' self-education consciousness; It is conducive to better ideological education for students, to do a good job in teaching and educating people, and to raise teaching and educating people to a more scientific level; It is also beneficial for teachers to sum up their work experience and consciously carry out educational research.

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