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NATURE OF EDUCATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY

Its nature is scientific as it has been accepted that it is a Science of Education. We can

summarize the nature of Educational Psychology in the following ways:

1. Educational Psychology is a scinc. (Science is a branch of study concerned

with obseration of facts and establishment of erifiable general laws. Science

employs certain ob!ectie methods for the collection of data. It has its ob!ecties of

understanding" e#plaining" predicting and control of facts.$ %i&e any other science"

educational psychology has also deeloped ob!ectie methods of collection of data. It

also aims at understanding" predicting and controlling human behaiour.

'. Educational Psychology is a natu!al scinc"n educational psychologist

conducts his inestigations" gathers his data and reaches his conclusions in e#actly

the same manner as physicist or the biologist.

). Educational #sychology is a social scinc"%i&e the sociologist"

anthropologist" economist or political scientist" the educational psychologist studies

human beings and their sociability.

*. Educational #sychology is a #ositi$ scinc"+ormatie science li&e %ogic

or Ethics deals with facts as they ought to be. positie science deals with facts as

they are or as they operate. Educational psychology studies the child,s behaiour as it

is" not" as it ought to be. So it is a positie science.

-. Educational #sychology is an a##lid scinc"It is the application of

psychological principles in the field of education. y applying the principles and

techni/ues of psychology" it tries to study the behaiour and e#periences of the

pupils. s a branch of psychology it is parallel to any other applied psychology. 0or

e#ample" educational psychology draws heaily facts from such areas as

deelopmental psychology" clinical psychology" abnormal psychology and social

psychology.

. Educational #sychology is a d$lo#ing o! g!o%ing scinc"It is

concerned with new and eer new researches. s research findings accumulate"

educational psychologists get better insight into the child,s nature and behaiour.

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2hus" educational psychology is an applied" positie" social" specific and practical

science. While general science deals with behaiour of the indiiduals in arious

spheres" educational psychology studies the behaiour of the indiidual in

educational sphere only.