1. Psychology is the study of the human mind and behavior, while sociology is the study of human society and social interactions. Educational psychology applies psychological principles to education, and sociology of education examines how social institutions and experiences influence education. 2. Key aspects of human learning and development include sensation, perception, imagination, and memory. Sensation is the awareness of stimuli through the senses. Perception gives meaning to sensations based on past experiences. Imagination involves forming mental representations, and memory is the process of acquiring, storing, and recalling information over time. 3. Learner growth is influenced by maturation, environment, and the interplay between innate and learned factors.

1. Meaning of
Psychology, Sociology, Education, Edu
cational Psychology, and Sociology of
Education

2. Education
• Education has been derive from the Latin
word “EDUCARE” which means to rear, to
nourish, to bring up, to train”

3. Education
• Education consists of building up in the
individual an organization of knowledge and
skills, habit and attitudes of values and ideals
which will aid in fulfilling life’s purposes.
• It must develop
• Is an active process

4. Education
• The fundamental aim of education is to help
each individual to make of himself all that it
is possible for him to become.

5. PSYCHOLOGY
• Come from the Greek word psukhe and
behaviour “soul” and logos “study of”.
• Study of mental function and behaviour.
• Study of the human personality

6. Psychologist
• A social, behavioural or cognitive scientist.
• Attempt to understand the role of mental
functions in individual and social behaviour.

7. Educational psychology
• The application of the scientific knowledge
concerning human personality to the process
of teaching, that is, to the
motivation, direction, control, and evaluation
of learning.

8. SOCIOLOGY
• Sociology came from the Latin word SOCIUS
“companion”, OLOGY “the study of”, LOGOS
“word, knowledge”.
• The study of the nature, origin and
development of human society.
• It was first coin in 1780 by the French
essayist EMMANUEL JOSEPH SEIYES
(1748-1836)

9. Educational Sociology
• Is the study of how public institutions and
individual experiences affect education and
its outcomes

10. Nature and Fundamental
equipment of the learner.

11. Sensation
• Sensation is defined as the conscious
processes which are the immediate results of
the stimulation of the sense organs, by which
means of which man becomes aware of
existence and properties of particular objects
which stimulate senses to actions.

12. • Sensation is the first source of all
knowledge, without sensation there would be
nothing to converted into knowledge.

13. Necessary conditions of sensation are:
Physical
Physiological
Psychological

14. Three attributes of sensation are:
• Intensity
• Quality
• Duration

15. Perception
• May be defined as the mental process of
interpreting and giving meaning to sensation of
particular object. It is a mental process
but, nevertheless, is associated closely with
bodily activities; that is, with the ability of sense
organs and of the nervous systems. In
perceptions sensations acquire a meaning.
• The basis of every perception consists in present
or past experiences.

16. Imagination
• The mental power of forming representations
of material objects which are not actually
present to the senses.

17. • The training, direction, and guidance of the
child’s imagination is one of the teachers most
important task.

18. • Two function of Imagination
– Reproductive
– Constructive
Hyperphantasy- over extravagant activity of the
Imagination

19. Memory
• Process which information is
– Acquired
– Stored in the brain
– Later retrieved
– Eventually forgotten

20. Two divisions of memory
• Sensory memory
• Intellectual memory

21. Basic Factors to the Learner Growth
and Development
• Maturation
• Environment