Introduction to Educational Psychology is an educational work compiled by edward lee thorndike, an American psychologist and educator. First appeared in 19 14. Introduction to Educational Psychology is the abbreviation of Thorndike's three-volume Educational Psychology, which consists of three volumes, namely Human Nature, Learning Psychology and Personality Differences and Their Causes.

This book is the concrete application of Thorndike's connectionist psychology theory in education, and it is also the first systematic educational psychology book in history. It consists of three volumes and 27 chapters. The first volume is Human Nature (Chapter 65438 +0 ~ 9), which expounds the essence of human talent. The second volume is Learning Psychology (10 ~ 20 chapters), which discusses the learning laws of animals and humans. The third volume is "Personality Differences and Their Causes" (Chapter 265438 +0 ~ 27), which discusses personality differences and their causes.

humanity

Thorndike believes that the combination of sperm and egg predetermines a person's future behavior. A person's innate organization determines a person's response to situations, a person's intellectual character depends on the structure of neurons, and position response is related to life situations. The combination of the two leads to the formation and change of wisdom, personality and skills.

Therefore, he proposed that the purpose of education is to permanently preserve the original combination (to satisfy it through practice), to eliminate it (to control the stimulus so that it cannot be satisfied), or to change to Tao (to stimulate and combine to form a new reaction).

Moreover, he put forward the first principle of education: take a person's nature as a tool to turn evil into good, so that he can produce the knowledge, habits, abilities, interests and ideals he needs. On this basis, he believes that the task of educational psychology is to give people such knowledge and let people discover human nature in wisdom, character and skills, as well as the common law of their transformation and learning.