Semester 2

Objectives:

• To understand the meaning of Psychology and be acquainted with it's different aspects.

• To know the patterns of different aspects of human development and relate this knowledge with education.

• To be acquainted with the cognitive approach of development and thus to understand the process and factors of cognition.

Unit: 1 = Relation between Psychology and Education click here (Bengali) click here (English)

➢ Meaning and definition of Psychology

➢ Meaning and definition of Education

➢ Relation between Psychology and education

➢ Nature, scope and significance of educational psychology.

Unit: 2 = Stages and types of human development and their educational significance.

➢ Piaget's cognitive development theory click here (Bengali) click here (English)

➢ Erikson's psycho-social development theory click here (Bengali) click here (English)

➢ Kohlberg's moral development theory click here (Bengali) click here (English)

➢ Vygotsky's social development theory and Bandura’s Social Learning Theory click here (Bengali) click here (English)

Unit: 3 = Learning: concept and theories

➢ Concept and characteristics of learning click here (Bengali) click here (English)

➢ Theories: Connectionism

• Trial and error click here (Bengali) click here (English)

• classical conditioning click here (Bengali) click here (English)

• operant conditioning click here (Bengali) click here (English)

➢ Insightful learning click here (Bengali) click here (English)

➢ Memorization and Forgetting: Process of memorization, causes of forgetting and economical ways of improving memorization click here (Bengali) click here (English)

Unit: 4 = Intelligence

➢ Concept of intelligence

➢ Theories of Intelligence by Spearman

• Thorndike click here (Bengali) click here (English)

• Guilford click here (Bengali) click here (English)

➢ Types and uses of intelligence tests click here (Bengali) click here (English)

➢ Concept of Emotional Intelligence and E.Q click here (Bengali) click here (English)