The present edition of Advanced Educational Psychology has been thoroughly updated, reviewed and enlarged in consonance with the fast developments of the corpus of psychological knowledge as evident from the new entries in the field of Educational psychology. The entire write up is designed in a modular form with an inbuilt arrangement for self assessment and feedback. The book is divided into eighteen chapters which encompass the major fields of the discipline as at present. The orientation and scope of the material is centred on examining and evaluating the emerging concerns for objectives and goals of educational psychology, nature and implications of the psychology of development, theories of learning with an independent chapter devoted to cognitive theories and self-regulated learning, psychology of motivation, what research says to the teacher, psychology of personality with a focus on various theories, nature and nurture of ability including the emotional intelligence, psychology of special groups of children—gifted, creative, backward, retarded, delinquent and physically challenged and the psychology of adjustment and mental health. The effort of the author is to capture and adumbrate the latest empirical knowledge accessible through current psychological literature. The analysis of the various concepts has been attempted with illustrations galore which add to the clarity and communicativeness of the content presented through the various chapters of the book. The book is intended to be used as a tool for ensuring mastery in educational psychology courses in the departments of teacher education and psychology of the Indian universities in particular.