The psychology of the education is not only in charge of of the behavior of professors and students, but rather it is also applied other groups like the assistants of the professors, first childhood, immigrants and third age. The areas of study of the psychology of the education are superimposed inevitably with other areas of the psychology, including the psychology of the development (of the boy and of the adolescent), the social (groups and institutions, socialization) psychology, the psychological evaluation and the vocational or educational orientation.
Due to the existent great diversity among the students, educational means and study fields, it has not still been formulated any global applicable theory to the group of the educational psychology. On the contrary, the psychologists work in theories about concrete phenomena of the learning, the motivation, the development and the teaching.
Diverse theories of the learning process help the psychologists to understand, to predict and to control the human behavior. For example, the psychologists have developed mathematical theories of learning able to predict the possibility that has a person of emitting a correct answer; these theories are used to design systems of programmed on-line learning in subjects like reading, mathematics or languages.
On the other hand, the theory of the attribution describes the purpose of the motivation in the success or the school failure. The success in an exam, for example, it could be attributed to the good luck or the effort; the theory predicts the behavior of the students in function of its answers.
In conclusion, the psychology of the education is superimposed inevitably with other areas of the psychology. Also, some theories of the learning process help the psychologists to understand, to predict and to control the human behavior.
