The role and Influence of Education on Behavior Change and Development

Education since the days of yore had to be one form of human endeavor in order to maintain the continued existence of human culture and life itself.

For those in behaviorism, education is understood as a means of character creation, skills training tools, tool sharpening of the brain, and the media to improve their skills. While among humanism, education is more believed to be a medium or a vehicle to inculcate moral values and religious teachings, or as a vehicle to humanize humans, as well as the vehicle for human liberation.

Further education be mandatory in order to maintain the life of humanity. see that the importance of education for humanity, much of human civilization which "require" people to continue to maintain continuity of education.

Be a problem, the extent to which education can influence individual behavior change and development. How well the individual's own contributions to the developments and changes in behavior.

Using the basic concepts of psychology, especially in view of behaviorism, education is essentially conditioning business (creation of a set of stimuli) that is expected to produce patterns of behavior patterns (a set of responses) given, which is manifested in the form of behavioral changes and developments, both in terms of cognitive, affective , and psychomotor.

Extent the level or degree of behavior change and progress achieved through the business - the business is known as conditioning, learning achievement or learning outcomes (achievement). Thus, the view of behaviorism, direction and qualification developments and changes in behavior will depend on factors s (conditioning ).

Meanwhile, in the view of humanism, that some organisms or the individual who holds an important role in a process of learning or educational process. Basically individuals from birth has been given a certain potential potency, especially intellectual potential, then with help or without help from others, the individual seeks actively develop all their potential through interaction with its environment, including the school environment. So that initially the potential is still latent (hidden) can be actualized into achievement.

If we observe from both these views seem there are things that contrast. Behaviorism views learning outcomes by individuals is the result of the reactive environment. Whereas in the view of humanism, individual learning outcomes are the result of active and pro-active efforts on the environment. With the existence of such differences also cause differences in the occurrence of differences in technical approach and educational process. However, these must be recognized that both these views have a vital role and contribute to developments and changes in personal or individual behavior.

Psychology and Education

Another definition for educational is a systematic study of the processes and factors related to education. From the boundaries of the above shows that there is a very strong link between the psychology of education by action learning. Therefore not surprising that some educational psychologists mentioned that the main field of study is about studying educational psychology. In other words, educational psychology focusing on issues related to process issues and factors associated with action learning.

Because of its concentration on learning problems, the main consumers of this educational psychology in general is on the educators.

Education can not be separated from psychology. Contribution of psychology to education is enormous. Educational activities, especially in formal education, such as curriculum development, teaching and learning processes, evaluation systems, and guidance and counseling services are some of the main activities in educational psychology in which the need.

Education as an activity in which involved many people, including students, teachers, adminsitrator, community and parents of students. Therefore, that educational goals can be achieved effectively and efficiently, then everyone involved in education should be able to understand about the behavior of individuals at the same time can show their behavior effectively.

Educational Psychology

Educational psychology as a science can be said because the inside has had a science requirement criteria, namely:
Ontologically : Object of education is the behavioral psychology of individual behavior that directly or indirectly involved with education, such as students, teachers, administrators, parents, learners and community education.
Epistemological : Theory of theories, concepts of concepts, principles and propositions - propositions educational psychology generated by systematic efforts through a variety of longitudinal studies or cross sectional studies, both qualitative and quantitative approaches.
Axiological : Benefit from educational psychology in particular with respect to achieving efficiency and effectiveness of the educational process.

Thus, educational psychology can be interpreted as one branch of psychology that specifically examine the behavior of individuals within the context of the educational situation with a view to finding a variety of facts, generalizations and theories related to educational psychology theory, which was obtained through a specific scientific method, in order to achieve the effectiveness of the process of education.

About Psychology

Etymologically, psychology comes from the word “psyche” which means soul or breath of life and “logos” which means knowledge. Seeing of the meaning of the word is as if psychology is the science of the soul or the science of learning about the soul. If we refer to one of the requirements of science that is the object being studied, then it is not correct if we interpret the soul of psychology as a science or science of learning about life, because life is something that is abstract and can not be observed directly. psychology would be interpreted as a science of learning about individual behavior in interacting with their environment.

Psychology is divided into two parts, namely general psychology (general psychology) that examine the behavior in general and special psychology which studies the behavior of individuals in specific situations, including :

• Developmental Psychology: Examine the behavior of individuals who are in the process of development starting from the time of conception until the end of life.
  
• Personality Psychology : Examine the behavior of specific individuals seen from the aspect -aspect of his personality.
  
• Clinical psychology : Examine the behavior of individuals for purposes of healing (clinical) abnormal psychology; examine the behavior of individuals who are classified as abnormal.
  
• Industrial Psychology : Examine the behavior of individuals in relation to the industrial world.
  
• Educational Psychology : Examine the behavior of individuals in the educational situation