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What is the research object of educational psychology?
The main research objects of educational psychology are: the psychological process of teacher-student interaction in the situation of teaching and learning, and the psychological phenomenon in the process of teaching and learning.

The research object is: students.

Research content:

The specific research category of educational psychology revolves around the interaction between learning and teaching. The interaction between learning and teaching is a systematic process, which includes five elements: students, teachers, teaching content, teaching media and teaching environment. It is made up of learning process, teaching process and evaluation/reflection process.

Research tasks:

Educational psychology is an interdisciplinary subject. Therefore, educational psychology has a dual task, which has the nature of pedagogy and psychology. First of all, study and reveal the nature, characteristics and types of students' learning in the education system, as well as various learning processes and conditions; So psychology can be further developed in the field of education. Secondly, it studies the psychological principle of how to use students' learning and its laws to design education, reform and optimize the education system, so as to improve the efficiency of education and accelerate the cultivation of talents.