EDP1142: Introduction to Psychology

This module aims at equipping students with knowledge, skills and attitudes that will enable them, as prospective teachers, to understand the behaviour of learners and the school environment in which teaching and learning take place. Therefore, this module will tackle various concepts of psychology such as meaning and nature of psychology, major perspectives, branches and research methods of psychology, biological bases of behaviour, intelligence, sensation and perception, memory and forgetting, emotion, motivation, personality and psychological disorders.