Useful Branches of Psyschology in the Field of Architecture Education

Psychology is the scientific study of the human mind with respect to its behavior, according to the American Psychological Association psychology is the study of the human mind to understand how it works and affects its behavior.

In this article, we are going to discuss only those branches of psychology having a direct relationship with the field of architecture or architecture education.

1. Educational Psychology 

2. Cognitive Psychology 

3. Environmental Psychology 

4. Psychology of Art 

1) Educational Psychology: 

Educational Psychology is the scientific study of human learning processes from the perspective of cognition and behavior as its measures are used to enhance educational activities in relation to instructional design, classroom management, assessment, etc.

1.1 Application of educational psychology in various areas;

1. Instruction Methodology 

2. Educational technology

3. Curriculum development

4. Organizational learning 

5. Special education

6. Classroom management 

7. Student motivation 

and it contributes to other fields of psychology like cognitive psychology and learning science.

1.2 Theories of Educational Psychology;

1. Operant conditioning 

2. Functionalism 

3. Structuralism

4. Constructivism

5. Humanistic psychology 

6. Gestalt psychology 

7. Information processing 

1.3 Renowned Educational Psychologist;

1. Plato 

2. Aristotle

3. Sophists

4. John Loke 

5. Juan Vives 

6. Johann Pestalozzi

7. Johann Herbart

8. William James

9. Alfred Binet

10. Edward Thorndike

11. John Dewey

12. Jean Piaget

13. Jerome Bruner

14. Benjamin Bloom

15. Nathaniel Gage

2) Cognitive Psychology:

Cognitive Psychology is the study of mental processes that affect behavior, that includes;

1. attention  

2. language use 

3. memory 

4. perception 

5. problem-solving 

6. creativity

7. reasoning 

2.1 Application of Cognitive Psychology in Various Fields of Psychology

1. Abnormal Psychology 

2. Social Psychology 

3. Developmental Psychology  

4. Educational Psychology 

5. Personality Psychology 

2.2 Renowned Cognitive Psychologist 

1. John R. Anderson 

2. Alan Baddeley 

3. David Ausubel 

4. Albert Bandura 

5. Frederic Bartlett 

6. Elizabeth Bates 

7. Aaron T. Beck 

8. Robert Bjork 

9. Gordon H. Bower 

10. Donald Broadbent 

11. Jerome Bruner 

12. Susan Carey 

13. Noam Chomsky 

14. Fergus Craik 

15. Antonio Damasio 

16. Hermann Ebbinghaus 

17. Albert Ellis 

18. K. Anders Ericsson 

19. William Estes 

20. Eugene Galanter 

21. Vittorio Gallese 

22. Michael Gazzaniga 

23. Dedre Gentner 

24. Vittorio Guidano 

25. Philip Johnson-Laird 

26. Daniel Kahneman 

27. Nancy Kanwisher 

28. Eric Lenneberg 

29. Alan Leslie 

30. Willem Levelt 

31. Elizabeth Loftus 

32. Alexander Luria 

33. Brian MacWhinney 

34. George Mandler 

35. Jean Matter Mandler 

36. Ellen Markman 

37. James McClelland 

38. George Armitage Miller 

39. Ulrich Neisser 

40. Allen Newell 

41. Allan Paivio 

42. Seymour Papert 

43. Jean Piaget 

44. Steven Pinker 

45. Michael Posner 

46. Karl H. Pribram 

47. Giacomo Rizzolatti 

48. Henry L. Roediger III 

49. Eleanor Rosch 

50. David Rumelhart 

51. Eleanor Saffran 

52. Daniel Schacter 

53. Otto Selz 

54. Roger Shepard 

55. Richard Shiffrin 

56. Herbert A. Simon 

57. George Sperling 

58. Robert Sternberg 

59. Larry Squire 

60. Saul Sternberg 

61. Anne Treisman 

62. Endel Tulving 

63. Amos Tversky 

64. Lev Vygotsky