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This course introduces learners to the principles of learning and behaviours by surveying relevant theoretical and empirical approaches with in psychological knowledge that can be applied to the teaching learning process will be studied. The course content includes; the factors affecting learning, individual differences, personality motivation, theories of learning such as association, gestalt, and cognitive will be studied. The overall emphasis is on the theoretical foundations of psychology as they relate to human learning behaviour. The following topics will be reviewed: historical perspectives of early learning theories, prevailing theories of human development, classical and operant conditioning, effects stimuli have on learning and behaviour, social learning, motivation, cognitive development theory in the context of learning stages and processes, memory and human information processing models, and problem solving methods. Understanding of these human behaviours in relation to marketing, sports, health, education and social relations will be considered. Part two of this course is the psychology of human growth and development. It aids a teacher understanding of the psychological changes of the prenatal period, infancy, babyhood, puberty, adolescence, and early child hood will be studied.