1. First of all, higher education psychology helps teachers to better understand students' psychological needs and cognitive characteristics, so as to better design and implement teaching plans and improve teaching effects. For example, teachers can adopt different teaching methods and means such as vision, hearing and hands-on practice according to students' learning styles and cognitive characteristics to better meet students' learning needs.
2. Secondly, higher education psychology helps teachers to better cope with students' psychological problems and challenges, such as exam anxiety and inferiority, so as to better help students overcome difficulties and obstacles and promote their personal development. For example, teachers can help students overcome psychological barriers and improve their self-confidence and learning effect through psychological consultation and counseling.
3. Higher education psychology helps teachers to better understand their psychological characteristics and behavior habits, so as to better adjust teaching strategies and behavior patterns and improve teaching effects. For example, teachers can find their own shortcomings by reflecting on their teaching behavior and teaching effect, and improve their teaching ability and level through study and practice.
4. Finally, higher education psychology is helpful to improve teachers' education quality and career development. By studying and studying the psychology of higher education, teachers can better understand the essence and laws of education, so as to better grasp the direction and trend of education and lay a solid foundation for their professional development.
The research methods of higher education psychology are as follows:
1, experimental methods: divided into laboratory experiments and field experiments. Laboratory experiments are usually carried out in a strictly controlled environment to explore the nature and laws of psychological phenomena. The field experiment is conducted in a real educational environment, and the changes of psychological phenomena are observed and analyzed by changing certain conditions.
2. Observation: the most basic and commonly used method in educational psychology research. Observation can be divided into natural observation and laboratory observation. Natural observation is a method to directly observe the external behavior of the subjects (students) in the natural life situation or education process, so as to study their psychological activities.
3. Survey methods: The survey methods commonly used in educational psychology research are divided into questionnaire method and interview method. Questionnaire method is to collect data by issuing questionnaires and analyze the psychological characteristics and behaviors of the subjects. The interview rule is to collect data through face-to-face communication with the subjects to understand their psychological state and behavioral characteristics.
4. Case law: Case law requires in-depth and meticulous observation and research on a person, collecting relevant information and analyzing his psychological characteristics in order to find out the reasons that affect his behavior and psychology.
5. Test method: Psychological test mainly includes intelligence test, achievement test and personality test. These tests can be used to evaluate the psychological ability and characteristics of the subjects, so as to better understand their psychological state and behavior.
6. Educational experience summary method: it refers to an educational research method that analyzes and summarizes educational phenomena according to the facts provided by educational practice and the procedures of scientific research, reveals their internal relations and laws, and promotes them to educational theory.
7. Product analysis method: also known as activity product analysis method or work analysis method, it is to understand students' ability, inclination, skills, proficiency, emotional state and knowledge range by analyzing students' activity products.