Thorndike's educational psychology is regarded as a symbol of the independence of educational psychology. This book explains a series of educational problems with accurate scientific methods, systematically and conveniently explains the measurement and characteristics of psychological characteristics, and analyzes the influence of environment, special training and choice on the educated.
In addition, the author does not forget to pay attention to individual differences in the field of psychological practice, focusing on gender differences in education and education for special children. Educational psychology is rich in content, integrating theory with practice, and many viewpoints and analytical methods are still very enlightening to today's teaching and psychological research.
The Essence of Educational Psychology
As a branch of psychology, educational psychology is also an intermediate science with the nature of natural science and social science. Educational psychology is a science that studies the psychological laws that students learn from teachers' teaching in school education situations. The particularity of its research object determines that it can not be separated from people's educational practice in the field of education, and educational psychology is regarded as a part of educational science system. In this sense, educational psychology pays more attention to the essence of social science.
The particularity of the research object of educational psychology determines that it should be closely related to educational teaching practice, so it has strong application, and some people think it is an applied discipline.
In addition, in the process of serving education and teaching practice, educational psychology has also continuously carried out its own theoretical research and construction, extracted various theories of learning and teaching, and formed a relatively complete theoretical system. Therefore, educational psychology is both theoretical and applied, and it is a basic theory and applied discipline.