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THE IMPORTANCE OF EDUCATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY TO

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Psychology had changed the spirit of education and it gives new meaning to learning in classroom. Educational Psychology also changed the old concept of education in the Classroom. Educational psychology is devoted to the study of how people learn including differences in learning, gifted learners, and learning disabilities. The branch of psychology involves not just the learning process of early childhood education and adolescence but includes the social, emotional, and cognitive processes that are involved in learning throughout the entire lifespan like that preschool system. The field of educational psychology incorporates a number of other disciplines, including developmental psychology, behavioral psychology, and cognitive psychology. In today's complex educational system, educational psychologists work with educators, administrators, teachers, and students to learn more about how to help the education. Educational psychology is also the study of how humans learn in educational settings, the effectiveness of educational interventions, the psychology of teaching, and the social psychology of schools as organizations. Knowing your learning style and the various theories can help you better understand information, which will help the students develop positive study habits. Several learning theories such as behaviorism, cognitivism, and constructivism exist to explain the ways in which a person can learn and understand various concepts. Visual learners will highlight important passages in books or draw pictures/diagrams of ideas to help better understand the concepts. Educational psychologists can also focus on certain segments of the population, such as adult learners, preschoolers, as well as elementary and high school aged children. They may also focus on studying gifted students as well as students with learning disabilities and even how learning takes place within groups, this paper review in widely.

Special psycho-pedagogy is the science of the knowledge of psychic development (psychology(special education) in order to realize the therapeutic education (special pedagogy) adapted to the presenceand manifestation of a form of disability. The special psycho-pedagogy of students with mental disabilitiesstudies the problemmultiple of the in-depth knowledge, training and therapeutic education of these students,in the perspective of their gradual recovery and social integration, usually in the usual contexts of their owncommunity. The complexity and interdisciplinarity of special psycho-pedagogy are underlined, for example,in the following definition: “Special psycho-pedagogy is a synthesis science, which uses the complexinformation provided by medicine (pediatrics, infant neurology, ophthalmology, audiology, orthopedics,hygiene, etc.), psychology (all its branches), pedagogy, sociology, legal sciences, in the dynamic study of thepersonality of all forms of disability through deficien...

Psychologist of Exceptional Children • Designed to understand children who are set apart from others due to either an advantage/disadvantage in terms of their physical, mental, and emotional conditions. It reflects the scientist practitioner model of training and practice in school psychology. • To accomplish this goal, students learn specific content relevant to the discussions of etiological factors, characteristics of each of the conditions, assessment procedures, and intervention approaches are included in the student's exploration of human exceptionality. This course aims to introduce the students who may soon work with children to the history of special education, relevant laws and legal/ethical issues, and special needs. • Orientation on the rights and privileges of Filipinos with special needs shall also be discussed as embodied in the Persons with Disabilities Act of the Philippines (RA 9442).

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Due to the different possibilities of psychology in special education, an exploratory study was carried out on the perception of psychologists (n = 64) and psychology students (n = 70) about this area. Participants answered a questionnaire containing two parts. The first had six open questions, and the second, 14 myths associated with giftedness. The results indicated, in general, gaps in training to work in the subject, to demonstrate little preparation to work in this area due to the limited presence of disciplines and, consequently, the lack of knowledge of professional practices. Professionals and students indicated the belief in false myths. Participants also reported that they do not feel prepared to work with this audience, especially gifted individuals. Overall, the study indicated the importance of reformulating psychology training to work in ​​special education so that its professionals feel prepared to deal with this specific audience that they may be asked to attend in t...

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Since the current edition of Educational Psychology appeared, there have been many exhilarating developments in the field. The current edition perpetuates to accentuate the educational implicative insinuations and applications of research on child development, cognitive science, learning, motivation, edifying, and assessment. Theory and practice are not disunited in the text, but are considered together. The book is incited to show how information and conceptions drawn from research in scholastic psychology can be applied to solve the everyday quandaries of edifying. To avail you explore the connections between research and practice, you will find in these pages a wealth of examples, edification segments, case studies, guidelines, and even practical tips from experienced edifiers. As you read this book, we believe you will optically discern the immense value and usefulness of scholastic psychology. The field offers unique and crucial cognizance to any who dare to edify and to all who love to learn. This book Educational Psychology disseminates the necessary content of the educational practices. This book consists of five chapters and its deals with Psychology as a Scientific Study, Intelligence, Models of Teaching, Learning and Personality. This book is dedicated to all students. Suggestions and comments to improve the contents of this book will be welcomed.

Individual learners can be characterised based on their psychological and neurological characteristics, such as visual spatial and auditory sequential learners, extroverts and introverts or multiple intelligences. These differences go a long way in how successfully individuals learn and engage in their careers. However, our contemporary educations systems do not give due attention to these differences in satisfying individual requirements. For example, the issues related to high sensitivities of gifted and creative individuals being inadequately addressed in the mainstream education system are extensively highlighted in literature. Due to lack of support from the education and social systems, individuals fall behind in the process of self-actualisation. According to researchers, it appears that we focus mainly on instructing the learners ’ left hemisphere of the brain, paying little attention on the right hemisphere. In this paper, the author highlights the need to make learners use...

The article presents a correlative model based on the Piagetian phenomena and student with special educational needs. Approaches are indicated allowing the mental age to be defined by applying Jean Piaget’s experiments, as well as doing it vice versa – defining the stage as per Jean Piaget in determining the IQ of the individual. The proposed model allows the general education teacher and also the individual progress development team in school, to get easily oriented on the capabilities of the student with special educational needs and prepare individual programs adequate to the student’s development. Article visualizations:

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