Educational psychology studies the performance and development law of people's psychological process and personality psychology in the educational process, studies the promotion of education and teaching to people's psychological development, and studies how to improve teaching quality and teaching effect by using the characteristics and laws of students' psychological development.
General psychology focuses on the study of general theory and summarizes the common laws of psychological phenomena in all aspects of social practice. Although it is related to social practice, it does not directly serve a specific social practice. It analyzes a certain aspect or problem of psychological phenomenon itself, rather than a comprehensive discussion of psychological problems in a certain social practice field.
Educational psychology aims to reveal the special laws of psychological phenomena in the process of education and directly serve educational practice. General psychology provides a theoretical basis for educational psychology, which uses the relevant knowledge of general psychology to deal with problems in educational practice. The formation of educators' psychological outlook mainly depends on their cultivation of general psychology, and general psychology supplements and enriches general psychology with its unique understanding of psychological laws in education.