Thorndike, an American psychologist, has made outstanding contributions to educational psychology. Thorndike, an American psychologist, is determined to study and solve learning problems with accurate and precise quantitative methods. Thorndike made outstanding contributions to the emergence of educational psychology and was the founder of educational psychology.

1903, Thorndike wrote a book "Educational Psychology", which was later expanded into a three-volume book "Educational Psychology" and published in1913-1914. In this book, Thorndike established a complete educational psychology system, thus formally establishing the status of educational psychology as an independent discipline, marking the formal birth of educational psychology.

The disciplinary nature of educational psychology

Educational psychology is a discipline with distinct cross-characteristics, which is mainly manifested in the cross between psychological science and educational science; The intersection of basic science and applied science; The intersection of natural science and humanities. The focus of educational psychology is to apply psychological theory or research results to education. Educational psychology can be applied to designing courses, improving teaching methods, stimulating learning motivation and helping students face all kinds of difficulties and challenges in their growth.

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 and reflection process.

The above contents refer to Baidu Encyclopedia-Educational Psychology.