Analysis of the Convergence Between Psychological Schools and Learning Theories

Abstract

This article aims to analyze the convergence between psychology (from birth as a science in the late nineteenth century) and education from different angles as reaction times to stimuli, psychological factors that influence learning, measurement of basic mental skills, learning difficulties, behavioral problems, among other factors that have been linked to both sciences, progressive, theoretically and practically from the named schools of psychology and learning theories. In this correlation are discussed: psychology as a science, the emergence of educational psychology, behavioral psychology and education, Gestalt and insight, inference of psychoanalysis in education and the constructivist approach in contemporary education.