Educational psychology is a discipline with distinct cross-characteristics, which is mainly manifested in the following aspects: (1) 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/reflection process.
Educational psychology is an interdisciplinary subject. Therefore, educational psychology has a dual task, which has the nature of pedagogy and psychology. First of all, study and reveal the nature, characteristics and types of students' learning in the education system, as well as various learning processes and conditions; So psychology can be further developed in the field of education. Secondly, it studies the psychological principle of how to use students' learning and its laws to design education, reform and optimize the education system, so as to improve the efficiency of education and accelerate the cultivation of talents.
Educational management psychology mainly includes human nature hypothesis and school management, individual differences and management, teacher encouragement and encouragement, teacher happiness, school conflict and teacher pressure, school interpersonal relationship and trust, school leadership psychology, school decision psychology, school culture and atmosphere, and learning school theory and strategy.