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Briefly describe the important role of learning higher education psychology.
A: The psychology of higher education is to study the particularity of teaching methods in colleges and universities and provide scientific psychological basis. The role of higher education psychology in education is reflected in the following aspects:

(1) is helpful to improve the level of teachers.

The focus of teaching staff construction is to improve the teaching level of young teachers. With the rapid development of science and technology, teachers have gradually become a professional profession. Young teachers in colleges and universities must fully understand and understand the basic psychological theory of teachers' profession and master and use professional psychological skills skillfully, so as to smoothly realize the role transformation from students to teachers and become qualified university teachers as soon as possible.

(2) It is helpful to improve the quality of education and teaching.

① Psychology of higher education helps teachers to understand students more deeply and improve the pertinence of education and teaching. Only by understanding students' learning motivation can students' learning enthusiasm be mobilized; Only by understanding the characteristics of students' cognitive development can we promote students' mastery of knowledge, the formation of skills and the development of students' ability and creativity. Only by understanding the characteristics of students' personality development can we promote the development of students' self-awareness and the formation of moral quality, help students establish good interpersonal relationships and maintain the normal development of mental health.

Studying the psychology of higher education will help us to understand the psychological basis of teaching methods more deeply, so as to master teaching methods and means more actively and scientifically, enrich our teaching art and achieve the goal of improving teaching quality in an all-round way.

(3) Conducive to the reform of education and teaching.

The discussion and determination of a series of major problems faced by higher education need the participation of higher education psychology. Studying higher education psychology is helpful to improve the dialectical materialism level and self-education consciousness of university teachers; It is helpful to better educate students and improve teaching and educating people to a more scientific level; It is beneficial for teachers to sum up their work experience and consciously carry out educational research.