Psychological Foundations of Education

Course Contents
Introduction: General Psychology and Applied Psychology; Goals and purposes of teaching
Psychology; Important concepts in Educational Psychology; Major Schools of Psychology;
Research Methods in Educational Psychology
Child Development: Infancy; Childhood; Adolescence
Attention, Perception and Motivation
Key learning theories: Conditioning theories; Cognitive theories; Humanistic and Social
learning theories
Memory and Meta Cognition
Thinking, Problem Solving and transfer of learning
Personality Development
Diversity of Learners
Conflicts, Frustration and Adjustments