Preschool psychology must be set up for preschool education major, because preschool education major is to train teachers who have preschool education professional knowledge and can engage in teaching guarantee and research work in kindergartens. The original intention of setting up preschool education major is aimed at kindergarten children.

Its significance has the following points:

First, understand the child's mood at this time and guide the child with targeted education;

Second, study the process of children's psychological development and summarize the reasons for the differences between general behavior and individual behavior;

Third, study the influence of external factors on children, so as to guide children to grow up healthily.

Extended data

First, the research objects of infant psychology include the following two aspects:

1, the general law of children's psychological development;

2. Children's early psychological process and personality development.

Second, the research task of early childhood psychology is generally the goal pursued by early childhood psychologists:

1, describing the general behavior of children's development;

2. Explain and measure individual differences, and reveal the causes and mechanisms of children's psychological development;

3. Explore the influence of different external factors on psychological development;

4. Put forward the best way to help and guide children's development.