Fisheries Extension Education (2+1)

Scope of Educational Psychology in Extension Education

1. Educational Psychology studies limitations and qualities of individual’s Psychical capacity, intelligence, aptitude, interests etc. Which play a major role in one’s learning. Aptitude –Natural ability or skill to perform some task.
2. Helps in improving teaching and learning. Helps is formulating training programmes for organizing good learning situation.
3. Helps to have letter education through evolution of syllabi for different levels of education, preparation of text books and development of exam patterns etc.
4. Attempts to discover the source of knowledge, belief, customs and to trace the development thinking and rearming so as to find the kind of environmental stimulation that produces certain type of activity.
5. Will help extension workers to find causes for prejudices the habit of stiding to old practices and ways of doing things, the doubts and lack of confidence and factors affecting motivation.
6. Helps the Extension workers to know the emotion and feeling of farmers, how villages of farmers learn new praumes and what type of approaches to be adopted and teaching methods to be research.