“ NO TWO

PERSONS ARE
EXACTLY ALIKE. “
PSYCHOLOGY
• Derived from the Greek word psyche (SOUL)
• Provides basis for understanding of human learning
process.
• Deals with mental processes that shape behavior and
thinking.

PSYCHOLOGY in Learning
• Psychology is the scientific study of mental functions and
behaviour including;
• Perception
• Cognition
• Behaviour
• Emotion
• Personality
• Interpersonal Relationship
 BEHAVIORIST (BEHAVIORISM)

PSYCHOLOGICAL COGNITIVIST (COGNITIVISM)

PERSPECTIVES
INFLUENCING CONSTRUCTIVIST
CURRICULUM (CONSTRUCTIVISM)

HUMANIST (HUMANISM)
➢Learning is considered a habit-formation.

➢Teaching is regarded as arranging

learning experiences in such a way as to
promote desirable behavior.

➢Manipulation of stimulus = desired

response
HABIT-FORMATION

MANIPULATION STIMULUS=DESIRED
RESPONSE
 CLASSICAL CONDITIONING
• Organism can associate a particular
stimulus (s) with a particular response (r)
• STIMULUS = RESPONSE

Russian Psychologist
 OPERANT CONDITIONING
• Involves changing one’s behavior by
using reinforecement/punishment
which is given after the desire
response.
American psychologist,
“Father of Operant
Conditioning”
 3 Major Laws of Learning
• Law of Readiness
• This law suggests that learning takes
place when an action tendency is
aroused through preparatory
adjustment , set, or attitude
American • Law of Exercise
psychologist and • Response will be strengthened with
educator practice.
• Law of Effect
• Response that is reinforced (positive)will
become habitual.
➢It focuses on how information received,
organized, stored, and retrieved.

➢Growth and Development refer to changes in

the structure and functions of human
characteristics.

➢Mind as computer
 COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT
THEORY

Swiss Psychologist
1. USE CONCRETE VISUAL AIDS
2. GIVE SHORT INSTRUCTIONS
3. ALLOW STUDENTS TO BE THEMSELVES
4. UNDERSTAND THE STUDENT’S WORDS
5. ALLOW HANDS-ON PRACTICE
6. OFFER A WIDE RANGE OF EXPERIENCES
• Constructivism says that people
construct their own understanding
and knowledge of the world,
through experiencing things and
reflecting on those experiences.
• LEARNER is ACTIVE
APPLICATION IN CLASSROOM
❖ EXPERIMENTS
❖ RESEARCH ACTIVIES
❖ FILMS/DIALOGUE
❖ CLASS DISCUSSION
❖ GROUP WORK LEARNING
➢ Concerned with how learners can
develop their human potential.
➢ It believes that learners are not
machines & minds are not
computers.
➢ Teacher not only educate the
minds, but the heart as well.
American psychologist
and leading exponent
of humanistic
psychology