10 psychological laws that teachers and parents must know to solve your educational problems!

10 psychological laws that teachers and parents must know to solve your educational problems!

Psychology is a discipline that allows us to know more about ourselves. The use of psychological knowledge can also make education have unexpected effects. Let's take a look at how to apply these 10 psychology trivia in education!

01

Rosenthal effect

Everyone in life will receive psychological cues of one kind or another, some of which are positive or some of which are negative. If it is a long-term negative and bad psychological cue, it will affect the child's emotions, and even affect its mental health.

On the contrary, if teachers and parents have high hopes and positive affirmations for their children, nourish their children's hearts through expectant eyes, praiseful smiles, and motivating language, so that children are more self-respecting, self-loving, confident, and self-reliant, then how high your expectations are, how big the children's future achievements will be.

2

Overrun effect

The psychological phenomenon of excessive stimulation, excessive intensity and prolonged action that causes psychological impatience or resistance is called the "over-limit effect". The overrun effect often occurs in family education and school education.

For example, when a child makes a mistake, the parent will repeat the same criticism of one thing once, twice, three times, or even four or five times, making the child go from guilt and uneasiness to impatience and even disgust. When you are "forced to be anxious", there will be a "I prefer this" rebellious psychology and behavior.

Teachers and parents should not criticize children beyond the limit, and should "make a mistake once and criticize only once" for children. If you have to criticize again, it should not be simply repeated, but a different angle and another way of saying it. In this way, the child will not feel that the same mistakes are "held on", and the boredom and rebellious psychology will also be reduced.

3

The Desi effect

Parents should be cautious about rewarding their children with materials, improper rewards will weaken the motivation of children.

The Desi effect is evident from time to time in life. For example, parents often say to their children, "If you score 100 points this time, you will be rewarded with 100 yuan!" "If you can get into the top 5, you will be rewarded with a new toy!" Wait a minute.

Parents may not have thought that it is this improper reward mechanism that will reduce their children's interest in learning little by little.

In terms of learning, parents should guide their children to set lofty ideals, enhance their children's feelings and interest in learning, increase their motivation for learning itself, and help children harvest the joy of learning.

Parents' rewards can be helpful for learning, such as books, learning tools, and some rewards that are not related to learning are best not.

4

Southwind effect

The "south wind" effect, also known as the "warm" effect, conforms to people's internal needs. This psychological response that inspires self-reflection and self-satisfaction is the "South Wind Effect."

With a little more "human touch" praise, the child will perform better.

It is not advisable to use "north wind" educational methods such as "sticks" and "intimidation" in family education.

The implementation of warm education, more "humane" praise, and the cultivation of children's self-consciousness can achieve the effect of doubling the results with half the effort.

05

Increase or decrease effects

The "increase and decrease" effect in interpersonal communication refers to the fact that anyone wants the other person's likes for them to "increase" rather than "decrease".

To evaluate children, you may wish to "first degrade and then praise".

When we evaluate our children, it is inevitable to tell their shortcomings and strengths, and often adopt the method of "first praise and then depreciation". In fact, this is a very undesirable evaluation method.

When evaluating children, we may wish to use the "increase and decrease effect", such as first saying some small problems that do not harm the child's dignity, and then giving appropriate praise...

6

butterfly effect

A very small cause, after a certain amount of time and the participation of other factors, can develop into a very large and complex influence.

The "butterfly effect" tells us that educating children is no small matter. The expression of a sentence, the handling of one thing, correct and appropriate, may affect the child's life; wrong and arbitrary may delay the child's life.

7

Labeling effect

This psychological law plays an extremely important role in education. For example, if we keep yelling at our children about "stupid", "how can we be so stupid", "can't even do such a simple problem", etc., over time, the child may really become what we call "stupid".

Therefore, teachers and parents must quit laughing and shaming, blaming and complaining, threatening and intimidating language, use more motivational language, and label children more positively.

8

Barrel effect

The "barrel" effect means that a barrel with an uneven mouth does not contain water, not the longest plank on the barrel, but the shortest plank on the barrel.

Take more time and let your child "learn from each other's strengths".

The stable formation of a child's good academic performance cannot rely on the prominence of achievements in certain subjects, but should depend on his overall condition, especially on some of his weak links.

Therefore, when it is found that there are deficiencies in some subjects of the child, the child should be reminded in time to spend more time on this subject to "learn from each other's strengths".

9

Hawthorne effect

The Hawthorne factory outside Chicago is a factory that manufactures telephone exchanges, with relatively complete entertainment facilities, medical systems and pension systems, but workers are still indignant and the production situation is not ideal.

Later, psychology experts specially conducted a test on it, that is, in two years, the experts talked to workers individually for more than 20,000 times, stipulating that in the process of talking, we should patiently listen to the various opinions and dissatisfaction of workers on the factory. The talk experiment yielded unexpected results: the Hawthorne plant's output had increased dramatically.

Let the child speak freely about his dissatisfaction and confusion.

Children inevitably have confusion or dissatisfaction in the process of learning and growing up, but they cannot be fully expressed.

Parents should try to squeeze out time to talk with their children, and in the process of talking, they should patiently guide their children to speak freely, say their confusion in life and learning, and express their dissatisfaction with parents, schools, teachers, classmates, etc.

After the child has "spoken", there will be a kind of venting satisfaction, and they will feel relaxed and comfortable. In this way, they will work harder in their studies and will be more confident in life!

10

The threshold effect

There is often a phenomenon in daily life: when you ask for help from others, if you put forward higher requirements at the beginning, it is easy to be rejected; and if you first make smaller requests, others agree and then increase the weight of the demands, it is easier to achieve the goal, this phenomenon is called the "threshold effect" by psychologists.

In education, we can use the "threshold effect". For example, first put forward lower requirements for children, wait for them to do what they are required, give affirmations, praise and even rewards, and then gradually increase the requirements, so that children are willing to continue to be active.