SCOPE AS DELIMITED BY EDUCATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY DIVISION:
It may be added that in 1947, the Educational Psychology Division of the American Psychological Association appointed a committee to define and delimit the scope of Educational Psychology.
The following five areas were named:
- Human growth and development: Including the effects of heredity and environment on various aspects of the individual.
- Learning: The nature of the learning process, factors influencing the learning process etc.
- Personality and adjustment: It included many sub-topics such as mental health of the students and the teacher's character.
- Measurement and evaluation, including statistics.
- Techniques and methods of Educational Psychology.Thus, Educational Psychology describes and explains the learning experience of an individual from birth to old age. Its subject-matter is concerned with the conditions that affect learning.