This book Educational Psychology is an inclusive book written and planned with the greatest care bearing in mind the needs of the students and educators. This book is divided into five units. The ideas in this book provide suggestions that will help in this extensive range of standards. Unit one – is Educational Psychology and human growth and development, and Unit two – Attention, Perception, and Memory. Unit three is Motivation and learning, Unit four – Is intelligence and creativity, and Unit – five – Is Personality

All the topics in the book are covered broadly and enhanced with explanatory illustrations the simple language used throughout the book will help graduate and post-graduate students, and teacher educators in grasping the concept and theory of the subject. This book is written about the great difficulties that do not encourage Xerox.

I express my sincere thanks to Dr. G. Pazhanivelu Department of Education at Tamil University, Thanjavur, Tamilnadu has encouraged me to complete this book within the stipulated.

I owe my heartfelt thanks to our college secretary, S.Senthilkumar, E.G.S.Pillay Group of  Institution, Nagapattinam for his moral support of this book published.

I am very thankful to my friend Dr. S. Anandaraja for encouraging me to continue writing books.

I express my deepest gratitude to my wife Dr.K. Maha Sakthi who helped me in writing this book, my beloved daughter K.Miruthula, my younger sister M.Siva who helped me, and my sisters daughters B.Barkavi, and B.Vaishnavi, and B. Vandhana

I would like to extend my appreciation to the people at Sri Krishna Publications for their wholehearted support in producing my book. To all of them my major thanks for their efforts to make my books best sellers. Suggestions for improvement will be greatly acknowledged.

And in the interest of students…

– Dr. M. KUMAR