Siksha-Manobigyan (Educational Psychology)_Tripura University_2nd Sem_Major_ED103C

Authors: Dr. Pranab Kumar Chakrabarti, Dr. Debabrata Debnath

TRIPURA UNIVERSITY (A Central University)
Compulsory Core Course, Code: ED103C
2nd Semester Major, Credits: 4, Max. Marks: 100 (80+20)
EDUCATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY
Unit-l: Concept and Methods of Educational Psychology
● Meaning, nature and scope of educational psychology
● Relation between Education and Psychology
● Methods of Educational Psychology
● Application of Educational Psychology in Teaching-Learning
Process
● Concept of Growth and Development; Differences between growth
and development; Principles of child development.
● Individual differences: concept, types, determinants and
educational implications
Unit-2: Learning and Motivation
● Concept of learning.
● Factors associated with learning
● Theories of Learning: Trial and Error, Classical Conditioning:
Operant Conditioning, Insightful learning, Constructivist
approaches to learning.
● Motivation: Concept, types, determinants of motivation;
● Maslow’s Theory of Motivation and its educational implication
Unit-3: Intelligence and Creativity
● Concept of Intelligence
● Theories of Intelligence: Two Factor, Thomson’s theory, SOI (Guilford),
● Gardner’s Theory of Multiple Intelligence
● Measurement of Intelligence : Verbal, Non-verbal and Performance
Test
● Creativity: Meaning and nature; characteristics of creative person
● Identification of creative person
● Nurturing creative student
Unit-4: Developmental Psychology
● Personality: development, types and Traits theory
● Piaget’s Theory of Development
● Bruner’s & Vygotsky's Theories of Development
● Kohlberg’s Theory of Moral Development,
● Educational implication of Developmental Theories