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UNIT I
PSYCHOLOGICAL FOUNDATIONS OF EDUCATION

MODULE 5
INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES

Objectives:

 Discuss the different type of individual differences.
 Identified the specific factors influencing differences.
 Explain the issues on the human development.

INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES:

Variation or deviation from the average of the group, with respect to the mental or
physical characters, occurring in the individual members of the group.

It is stand for those differences, which in their totality distinguish one individual from another.

TYPES OF INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES

Differences in Interest

Interest may refer as a motivating force that impels as to attend to a person, a thing, or an activity.
A state of wanting to know or learn about something or someone.

Differences in Values

Values are the things that are given important by an individual. Some leaners value materialist
life style other moral or religious life style.

Study Habits

It is clearly observable that some students markedly differ from other students in study habits.

Physical differences

Are defining traits or features about our body. These are aspects that are visually apparent,
knowing nothing else about person.

Differences in Intelligence

Intelligence refers to a certain mental or intellectual power of humans. Which marked by complex
cognitive feats and high levels of motivation and self-awareness.

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