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3.1 Introduction to educational psychology notes

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  1. 3.1.1Psychology and educational psychology: meaning, history, scope and schools

    Psychology began as the "science of the soul" and is now the science of behaviour and mental processes; its laboratory era starts with Wundt at Leipzig in 1879, and educational psychology (Thorndike, its father) applies it to teaching and learning.

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  2. 3.1.2Methods of educational psychology

    Educational psychology studies behaviour by introspection (looking within), observation (watching from outside), the experiment (the most scientific: cause and effect under control), and by survey, case study, clinical and correlation methods; research rests on a representative sample and a hypothesis that is tested.

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