We can summarise the nature of educational psychology in the following way:-

 •   Educational psychology is an applied branch of the subject of psychology. By applying the principles and techniques of psychology it tries to study the behaviour and experiences of the learners.

 •   While psychology deals with the behaviour of all individuals in all walks of life, educational psychology limits its dealing with the behaviour of the learner/ trainee in relation to educational and training environment.

 •   It does not concern with ‘what’ and ‘why’ of education, it gives the necessary knowledge and skill (techinical guidance) for giving education to the learners in a satisfactory way.

 •    It is not a normative science as it is not concerned with the values of education and does not concern itself with “what ought to be”. It is an applied positive science.

 •    Educational psychology is not a perfect science. It has its own draw-backs. The human (as well as animal) behaviour is unpredictable. It is more variable and less reliable. Therefore, educational psychology, the applied behavioural science, cannot claim objectively, exactness and validity as claimed by natural sciences or  even  applied  sciences  like  medicine  and engineering etc.

 •    It employs scientific method and adopts scientific approach to study the bhaviour of an individual in educational and training environment. Moreover the controlling of the factors and prediction of the behaviour on generalized results gives educational psychology a complete scientific base. Therefore, it is proper to call its nature as scientific.