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SYLLABUS
Development of Learner and Teaching Learning Process
Objectives:
· To acquire knowledge about the diverse changes during various stages of human development.
· To acquaint themselves with the educational implications of various concepts of Psychology.
· To understand the nature and process of learning and the factors responsible for teaching-learning
process.
Sr. Content
No.
1 Psychology: Meaning, nature, branches and schools of Psychology; Educational
Psychology: Meaning, nature and scope; Methods of Educational Psychology:
Observation, Experimental, Case Study.
2 Growth and development –Meaning and Principles; Stage specific development: Infancy,
childhood and Adolescence; Learning: Meaning, Nature and Process; Nature of teaching
and learning, factors affecting teaching-learning process
3 Theories of learning: Thorndike’s theory of learning and its educational implications,
Pavlov’s classical conditioning and its educational implications, Skinner’s operant
conditioning theory and its educational implications, Insightful learning theory and its
educational implications.
4 Transfer of learning: meaning, types and strategies to achieve maximum positive transfer
of Learning; Motivation: Meaning, types and techniques of motivating learner.
5 Intelligence: Meaning, nature and types, Measurement of Intelligence, Theories of
Intelligence: Unifactor, Two factor, multifactor theory, SOI and their educational
implications
6 Memory: meaning, types, factors influencing memory;Forgetting: Meaning, types and
theories of forgetting; the trace decay theory, interface theory and repression theory
7 Individual differences: Meaning, types and their educational implications, Factors
influencing individual differences, Personality: Meaning, nature types of Personality,
Assessment of personality; Creativity: Meaning, concept and measurement;
8 Mental health: Meaning, definition, factors influencing mental health. Stress: Meaning,
