Archive for the 'Education' Category

Colleges In USA Offering Psychology Courses: Rankings for 2012

Sunday, September 25th, 2011

    United States have always been the preferred destination for almost every student who wish to study abroad or even thinks of studying abroad. Thousands of students migrate to USA every year in search of better courses (both at under graduate and post graduate levels) and better future. Though, in the recent times there [...]

Why Choose Psychology as a Career ?

Thursday, September 22nd, 2011

The obvious answer is “Choose Psychology because you love it.” Though this statement is very apt, but it often confuses students. How do you expect a student to love or like psychology as a subject when they were never exposed to a subject similar to Psychology during their schooling.  Thus, there is a need to [...]

Self Help for Academic Underachievement

Sunday, October 5th, 2008

SELF HELP Academic Underachievement There are many reasons for underachievement by a student (normal, gifted). Reasons could be BIOLOGICAL, (poor vision, hearing, etc), PSYCHOLOGICAL (lack of reinforcement, peer pressure, distractions, etc), or SOCIOCULTURAL (socioeconomic status, education of parent, etc). Academic underachievement occurs when the student performs poorer than expected performance (poorer than might have been [...]

Educational Psychology: Development & Individual Differences

Tuesday, September 16th, 2008

What is educational psychology? Educational Psychology constitutes the foundation of education. It provides an approach to educational problems and a set of techniques for studying children and the problems that arise in their education. It is an area of application rather than unique category of subject matter. Educational Psychology – a field of specialization concerned [...]