Author(s)

GuoQing Liu

Affiliation(s)

School of Psychology, Guizhou Normal University, Guiyang 550001, Guizhou, China.

Corresponding Author

GuoQing Liu

ABSTRACT

With the rapid development of technology, psychology teaching has begun to combine with virtual simulation technology, mainly involving aspects such as psychotherapy, cognitive psychology, human factors psychology, educational psychology, and experimental teaching. This combination has many advantages: creating an immersive learning environment, enhancing the external validity of psychological experiments, and improving teaching effectiveness; the virtual technology is diverse, has a high degree of freedom, and can reduce costs; teachers and students can experience a strong sense of reality, thus being more likely to engage in teaching; using modern technology to record real-time data, ensuring the authenticity, accuracy, and convenience of teaching data; having higher openness and sharing. However, when applying it, some issues need to be noted: the application of virtual reality technology should have real teaching needs; virtual reality teaching should be operable, and efforts should be made to increase the cultivation of relevant talents; attention should be paid to ethical issues such as the impact of virtual reality technology on relevant personnel; virtual reality technology faces the dilemma of cost-effectiveness and sustainable development. Finally, in view of the advantages and problems of virtual reality technology in psychology teaching, suggestions and research directions are proposed.

KEYWORDS

Virtual reality technology; Psychology teaching; Advantages; Challenges

CITE THIS PAPER

GuoQing Liu. Advantages and challenges of Virtual Reality technology in college psychology teaching. World Journal of Educational Studies. 2025, 3(4): 1-5. DOI: https://doi.org/10.61784/wjes3060.

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