Q.NO.
01 DIFFERENTIATE BETWEEN:
(A) PSYCHOLOGY& EDUCATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY
 Psychology is a discipline that simply study
the human behavior.
 Psychology encompasses a wide range of sub-
disciplines such as abnormal psychology,
social psychology, developmental psychology
so on and so forth
 It studies the human development,
personality, abnormalities, education, social
interactions and almost all aspects of human
life.
 Schools of psychology refer to the different
approaches that have been used when
analyzing and examining human life over the
years. For example: Structuralism,
Functionalism, Behaviorism, Psychoanalysis,
Gestalt and Humanistic psychology
(B) NATURE & NURTURE
 Def: In the "nature vs nurture" debate, nature
refers to an individual's innate qualities
(nativism).
 Example: Nature is your genes. The physical
and personality traits determined by your
genes stay the same irrespective of where you
were born and raised.
 Biological and family factors
(C) BETWEEN ATTITUDE & ATTENTION
  Educational psychology is one of the many sub-
disciplines of psychology
  Educational psychology pays specific attention to the
study of learning throughout the human life span
  It explores a variety of themes such as motivation,
conditioning, memory, intelligence, cognition, etc.
  The theories which fall under the educational
psychology discipline come from different schools
such as Gestalt psychology, humanistic psychology
and functionalism. Especially the behaviorist theories
of classical conditioning brought by Ivan Pavlov and
Operant conditioning by B.F Skinner are popular in
educational psychology for their applicability to real
life and education related processes.
  In the "nature vs nurture" debate, nurture refers to
personal experiences (i.e. empiricism or behaviorism).
  Nurture refers to your childhood, or how you were
brought up. Someone could be born with genes to give
them a normal height, but be malnourished in
childhood, resulting in stunted growth and a failure to
develop as expected.
  Social and environmental factors
 Attitude a settled way of thinking or feeling   the act or power of carefully thinking about, listening
about something to, or watching someone or something

 In psychology attitude is position or posture of   In Psychology attention is a concentration of the mind

the body appropriate to or expressive of an on a single object or thought, especially one
action, emotion, etc.: preferentially selected from a complex, with a view to
limiting or clarifying receptivity by narrowing the
range of stimuli.

 Key topics in the study of attitudes include   Attention remains a major area of investigation
attitude measurement, attitude within education, psychology, neuroscience, cognitive
change, consumer behavior, and attitude- neuroscience, and neuropsychology.
behavior relationships
 An attitude can be as a positive or negative   Attention can be:
evaluation of people, objects, events, o Sustained attention
activities, and ideas. It could be concrete, o Selective attention:
abstract or just about anything in your o Alternating attention
environment o Divided attention:

(D) MOTIVATION & READINESS

 Motivation is a theoretical construct used to   The state of being fully prepared for something or of
explain behavior being willingness to do something.

 It gives the reasons for people's actions,  

desires, and needs.

 A motive is what prompts the person to act in  

a certain way