Abstract: On the basis of practice, the author puts forward four ideas onthe reform of teaching materials of psychology as a common coursein normal colleges and universities in order that the teaching mate-rials will possess strong Chinese characteristics in the new historicalperiod: (1)in terms of the system of teaching materials, the basiccontents of psychology should center around the students' futurework on teaching and educating in order, to form an organic "double-mainline structure"; (2)in terms of the contents of teaching ma-terials, the "three features" should be stressed——the pragmaticalfeature which emphasizes the guidance of psychological contents inmiddle-school teaching and educational practice which brings aboutthe to-the-point feature of theoretical exposition and operationalfeature of practical application; (3) in terms of the organization ofteaching materials, the "three-stage formula" of phenomenon-law-application should be adopted to suit the students' pattern of cogni-tion; (4) in terms of the writing and compiling of teaching mate-rials, the "combination of three sides" (psychologists, teachers ofpsychology and outstanding middle-school teachers) should be advo-cated.

Key words: double-mainline structure, three-stage formula, combination of three sides, pragmatical feature, to-the-point feature, operational feature