Pedagogical psychology – are the most important branches of psychology. The basis for allocation of this branch of psychology is the psychological aspect of concrete activity of teaching and studying.
Pedagogical psychology is in close relationship with developmental and age psychology, which study ‘age dynamics of person’s mental development, ontogenesis of mental process and psychological quality of developing person’. Ontogenesis refers to the sequence of events involved in the development of an individual organism from its birth to its death. This developmental history often involves a move from simplicity to higher complexity. So all problems of development and age psychology are considered on the basis of accounting person’s age features. Pedagogical and age psychology in their researching base on the theories of General Psychology, which opens the general psychological laws, studies mental processes, mental conditions and person’s individual-psychological peculiarities.
Pedagogical psychology as independent branch started to form in the end of XIX century collecting experiences and achievements of pedagogical, psychological and psychophysical experiments and researches.
Pedagogical psychology includes – Educational Psychology, Upbringing Psychology and Teacher’s Psychology.
In America this field of psychology is mainly called Educational Psychology.
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