One of the most popular areas of psychology is educational psychology. Educational psychology can be explained in several ways. The idea is to study theories and concepts from different fields of psychology and apply them in educational contexts. These educational contexts can occur in different school settings such as preschool. The goal of educational psychology is to create a positive relationship between student and teacher. Educational psychology uses five different types of psychology, behavioral, cognitive, developmental, and social-cognitive, and in this research paper I will briefly discuss each type of psychology listed above. Behaviorism is the view in which learning and behavior are described and explained in terms of stimulus-response relationships. Behaviorists agree that an individual's behavior is the result of his or her interaction with the environment. Feedback, praise, and rewards are all ways people can respond to conditioning. Attention is focused on observable events rather than events happening in the head. The belief that learning does not occur unless there is an observable change in behavior. “The first and most ardent of the behaviorists was Watson (1931; Medcof and Roth, 1991; Hill 1997). His fundamental conclusion from many experimental observations of animal and infant learning was that stimulus-response (SR) connections are more likely to be established the more frequently or recently an SR link occurs. A child solving a numerical problem may have to make many unsuccessful trials before arriving at the correct solution” (Childs, 2004). Cognitive psychology focuses on learning based on how people perceive, remember, think, speak, and solve problems. The cognitive perspective differs in... half of the article ......social aspects of cooperative learning. In conclusion, auditory learners prefer to learn things visually; they prefer to listen to instructions. Kinesthetic learners prefer to touch and feel what they are doing. A teacher should evaluate his class to see what kind of students he has in his class to be a more effective teacher. Since in educational psychology there are many branches of psychology that are used to determine learning in the classroom. Works Cited Willingham, D. (2009). What can cognitive psychology do for teachers? Encyclopedia Britannica Blog. Retrieved from http://www.britannica.com/blogs/2009/04/what-can-cognitive-psychology-do-for-teachers/.Child, D. (2004) Psychology and the Teacher. (7th ed.). London, New York: Continuum. Social cognition. Everyday science. Retrieved from http://www.sciencedaily.com/articles/s/social_cognition.htm