• Educational psychology is the branch of psychology concerned with the scientific study of human learning.

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• INTRODUCTION TO PSYCHOLOGY
• As human beings our curiosity drives us to know the reasons behind various events happening around us.
• Whenever we meet somebody or see someone doing something we immediately try to understand as to why this person is doing this kind of activity.
• Similarly we often try to understand our own experiences and behaviours in different situations.
• The eagerness and curiosity guide us to think of how people are different from each other in terms of their intellect, aptitude, and temperament: Why do they become happy or sad? How do they become friendly or develop antagonistic relationships? How do some people learn anything quickly while others take relatively more time?
• The answer to all these questions may be given by a novice as well as a person who has learned psychology.
• The answer of the novice can be guided by common sense by a psychologist can study the systematic way and can provide the scientific answers to these questions which can be tested time and again.
• In this lesson, we will try to understand the nature and scope of psychology in detail.
• NATURE OR PSYCHOLOGY AND ITS DEFINITION
• In simple words psychology is a systematic and scientific study of mental processes, experiences, and behaviours - both overt and covert.
• The word 'psychology' has its origin in two Greek words 'psyche' and 'logos' The word 'psyche' in the Greek language refers to 'spirit' or 'soul' and the word 'logos' refers to 'discourse' or 'study'.
• During earlier times it was considered as a discipline in which the study of the soul.