Educational psychology is a science that studies the basic psychological laws of "learning and teaching" in educational and teaching situations.

A type of "applied psychology"

The interdisciplinary subject of "Education" and "Psychology"

Aims to study students’ “learning psychology”

The interactive process of learning and teaching

Three processes

Four contents

five elements

1. Description

2. Explanation

3. Prediction

4. Control

Overall characteristics

The west

China

Overall characteristics

The west

China

Overall characteristics

The west

China

Overall characteristics

The west

China

1. Pay more attention to problems existing in actual education and teaching, and gradually expand the field of research

2. "Integrated" research methods

3. Research on learning strategies, teaching strategies, problem-solving strategies, and the interaction between learning motivation students and learning situations will surely be further deepened or developed.

4. Individual differences and personalized teaching research will continue to receive attention

5. The theory will gradually become complete and systematized, and then there will be a relatively unified system.

1. Principle of objectivity

2. Holistic principle/systematic principle

3. Educational principle

4. The principle of integrating theory with practice

5. Developmental principle

The experimental method is a method of "changing and controlling" certain conditions according to the purpose of research to cause changes in a certain psychological activity of the subject, thereby revealing "the relationship between specific conditions and this psychological activity."

Explore "causality"

The experimental method is the “most widely used and most accomplished” method in scientific research.

divided into

"The most basic and common method" in educational psychology research

The observation method uses the senses or with the help of certain scientific instruments to purposefully and plannedly examine and describe the performance or behavioral changes of individual psychological activities, thereby collecting relevant research data.

Observation can only answer the question "what", not "why"

The survey method is a method of "indirectly" understanding the psychological activities of subjects through various channels.

Available in two forms

A person conducts "in-depth and detailed" location observation and research, collects relevant materials, and analyzes his or her psychological characteristics

The research object can be an "individual" or an "individual group or institution"

An educational research method that "analyzes and summarizes" educational phenomena based on the facts provided by educational practice and according to scientific research procedures, revealing its internal connections and laws and elevating it to educational theory.

Methods to understand students’ psychological activities through “analyzing students’ activity works” (handicrafts, paintings, compositions, etc.)