Psychology of early childhood education is a science that studies the laws of children's psychological development and changes in the early childhood education system and how to use these laws to promote the healthy development of children's body and mind. Infant psychology is an important part of developmental psychology. Infant psychology is a science that studies the characteristics and laws of children's psychological development in early childhood (3-6, 7 years old).
In other words, it mainly discusses how children learn knowledge and skills, develop physical strength and intelligence, and form standardized social behavior and healthy personality quality through various forms of activities under the influence of education.
Children's educational psychology should not only study the laws of the formation and development of children's psychology in situations, but also study how to apply these laws in the educational process. Because the ultimate goal of studying the law of children's psychological formation and development is to optimize children's education and improve educational efficiency. Only in this way can the psychology of early childhood education play a better role in educational practice.
Age characteristics of children's psychological development;
First, the age characteristics of children's cognitive process (intellectual activity) development, including feeling, perception, memory, thinking, speech, imagination, etc. The age characteristic of thinking development is the most important part.
For example, in the development of thinking, its age characteristics are as follows: in early childhood, thinking is still dominated by intuitive action thinking, and concrete image thinking begins to sprout; By the middle of childhood, the concrete thinking of images began to occupy the dominant position of thinking; In the late childhood, although concrete image thinking is the main idea, abstract logical thinking has begun to sprout.
Second, the age characteristics of children's social development, including interest, motivation, emotion, self-awareness, ability, character, personality, etc. The age characteristic of self-awareness development is the most important link. For example, the age characteristics of children's self-awareness development are as follows:
In terms of self-concept, children's descriptions of themselves are mostly limited to physical characteristics, age, gender and favorite activities, and almost never describe their psychological characteristics, such as personality; In terms of self-evaluation, the self-evaluation of 3-year-old children is not obvious, and the turning point of self-evaluation begins at 3.5-4 years old, and most 5-year-old children have been able to conduct self-evaluation.