Educational psychology is a science that studies the basic psychological laws of middle school and teaching in educational situations. Educational psychology aims to explore the psychological laws of students' learning. Educational psychology is the psychological activity and its development law of students under the influence of education and teaching; The focus of educational psychology is to apply psychological theory or research results to education.
Educational psychology is a science that studies the basic psychological laws of middle school and teaching in the context of education and teaching. It mainly studies the psychological process of teacher-student interaction and psychological phenomena in the process of teaching and learning. Educational psychology pays attention to students' learning and development, especially to students with special educational needs (whether gifted children or children with emotional and behavioral problems) in practice.
The Essence of Educational Psychology
As a branch of psychology, educational psychology is also an intermediate science with the nature of natural science and social science. Educational psychology is a science that studies the psychological laws that students learn from teachers' teaching in school education situations. The particularity of its research object determines that it can not be separated from people's educational practice in the field of education, and educational psychology is regarded as a part of educational science system. In this sense, educational psychology pays more attention to the essence of social science.
The particularity of the research object of educational psychology determines that it should be closely related to educational teaching practice, so it has strong application, and some people think it is an applied discipline. On the other hand, in the process of serving the teaching practice of education, educational psychology has also continuously carried out its own theoretical research and construction, extracted various theories of learning and teaching, and formed a relatively complete theoretical system. Therefore, it is a highly theoretical subject. Educational psychology is both theoretical and applied, and it is a basic theory and applied discipline.