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Synopsis Children with normal psychological development are able to learn in poorly designed instructional environments but children having poor psychological development are unable to learn the academic emotional behaviourial and social characteristics that are desirable of them. Such children may develop behaviour patterns such as non-involvement, hyperactivity, emotional excess, distractibility, excessive daydreaming, frustration, low tolerance, shyness, passiveness, antilearning attitudes International alia, impacting on their all-round development. Such children should be taught having regard to their individual and collective problems and through learning strategies desired behaviour patterns are inculcated in them. “Behaviour Psychology” presents various learning and behaviour problems facing children with abnormal psychological development as well as their teachers and parents and brings to the fore numerous remedying strategies towards improvement of learning abilities through the input of various reinforces and instructional programme. In this endeavour the book makes an elaborate discussion on behaviour patterns, behaviour management programmes, reinforcer and reinforcement, excessive behaviour patterns, influence and generalization of behaviour, problem identification and analysis, discrimination difficulties, punisahment, promoting desired behaviour and management of some recurring behaviour problems. This unique and all-encompassing presentment on learning and behaviour and problems is a must for students, teachers, child psychologists and general readers.