EDUCATION OF PSYCHOLOGY

Education of psychologist is better known as the psychology of education consists of two words, they are psychology and education. Psychology comes from two words they are psyche meaning soul and logos meaning science. So, psychology is the science of the soul or life science. There are various kinds of psychological definitions differ from each other, such as psychology is the science of mental life, psychology is the science of the mind, as well as psychology is the science of behavior, and others that rely heavily on a defined point of view. Psychology basically touched many areas of life itself either human or animal organism, but more specifically, the psychology of life was associated with more human organisms, psychology is defined as the science that seeks to understand human behavior, why and how they do things, and also understand how these creatures thinking and feeling.

First, There is some understanding of psychology according to the figures, among them according to Bruno is divided into three parts, namely psychology in three parts which are interconnected in principle that is, psychology is the study (investigation) of spirits, psychology is the knowledge of mental life, as well as psychology is a science knowledge about the behavior of organisms. There is some understanding of psychology according to the figures, among them according to Bruno is divided into three parts, namely psychology in three parts which are interconnected in principle that is, psychology is the study (investigation) of spirits, psychology is the knowledge of mental life, as well as psychology is a science knowledge about the behavior of organisms. Crow and Crow gives the following limits of psychology, psychology is the study of human behavior and human relationships.

Of these restrictions is clear that in the study by psychology is human behavior, namely the human interaction with the surrounding world, either in the form of other human and non human, animal, climate, culture, and so forth. Restrictions provided Sartain is probably easier for us to understand the “psychology is the scientific study of the behavior of living organisms, with especial attention given to human behavior”, psychology scientists generally divide into two groups, including the psychology of metaphysics which investigates the nature of the soul as that of Plato and psychology as well Aristoteles. And empiri investigating psychiatric symptoms and symptoms of human behavior using observations, experiments and collection of various kinds that had to do with symptoms of human psychiatric symptoms. Empiri psychology can be subdivided into a general psychology that investigate or study the symptoms of human psychiatric symptoms in general, and also the psychology that investigates specific symptoms of human psychiatric symptoms according to certain aspects in accordance with the views and objectives. It lays the wide range of psychology such as the following: developmental psychology, youth, medical psychology, criminal psychology, educational psychology, psycho-technique, social psychology, Gestalt psychology, and so on.

Furthermore, as for education, derived from the word “students” have the prefix “me”, so to be “educating” the meaning is to maintain and provide training. To maintain and provide necessary training of the teaching, guidance, and leadership on the morals and intelligence of the mind. Furthermore understanding of education according to Big Indonesian Dictionary is the process of changing attitudes and code of conduct a person or group of people in human mature businesses through the efforts of teaching and training, in education comes from the word educate means to provide increased and developed. In the narrow sense, means the act or process of education acts to acquire knowledge.In a rather broad sense, education can be interpreted as a process or a method particular method so that people acquire knowledge, understanding, and how to behave in accordance with needs.In the sense of a rather broad and representative, education means the total process of developing human abilities and behaviors, drawing on almost all life’s experiences. Most people understand the meaning of education as teaching because education in general is always in need of instruction. If such understanding is guided by, any person who is obliged to educate certainly must do something to teach. Whereas, teaching is generally interpreted narrowly and formally convey the subject matter as the activity to the students so that they accept and master the subject matter, or in other words that the students have knowledge, of how and where the locations of the differences and similarities both of those terms.

In the dictionary of psychology education is defined as the institutional procedures accomplishing the are employed in the development of knowledge, habits, Attitudes, etc. Usually the term is applied to formal institutional. So, education is the stage of institutional activities that are used to refine the development of the individual in command of the knowledge, habits, attitudes, and so forth. Education can take place in an informal and non-formal, formal such as in schools, and institutions of other institutions. In fact, according to the above definition, education can also take place by way of teaching yourself. Furthermore, according to Poerbakawatja and Harahap education is a deliberate effort of adults with influence increasing maturity of the child who is always in the mean can lead to the moral responsibility of his deeds. Adult is the parent of a child or a person on the basis of duties and his position has an obligation to educate, for example: school teacher, pastor or chaplain in the religious sphere, the matron, and so forth. One expert who considers educational psychology as applied psychology sub disciplines are Arthur S. Reber a professor of psychology at Brooklyn College, University of New York City, the University of British Columbia Canada, and also at the University of Innsbruck Austria. In his view, is an educational psychology sub disciplines of psychology related to the theory and educational problems that are useful in terms of things as the following: the application of principles learned in the classroom, curriculum development and renewal, examination and evaluation of talent ability, socialization and interaction process and the interaction process with the utilization of cognitive processes, as well as teacher educate.

In a simple and practical, Barlow defines educational psychology as a body of knowledge in psychological research grounded the which provides a repertoire of resources to aid you in functioning more effectively in teaching learning process. Educational psychology is a knowledge based on psychological research that provides a range of sources to help you perform tasks as a teacher in teaching and learning process more effectively. Meanwhile, Tardif defines educational psychology is a field of study concerned with the application of knowledge about human behavior to the business of business education.

Finally, educational psychology is a science that focuses itself on the discovery and application of engineering principles and techniques in educational psychology, the scope includes educational psychology topics psychology topics closely associated with education. Meanwhile, psychology was originally used by scientists and philosophers to meet their needs in understanding the minds and behavior of diversity of living things ranging from primitive to the most modern, especially learners related to the learning process.

In conclusion, of some sort of opinion above we can conclude that, in general psychology education is an important tool for education providers in achieving educational goals have been set. And also we can conclude that educational psychology is the science that studies the behavior that occurs in the educational process.