Definition of Psychology

When asked to define psychology there so many thoughts that runs through my mind. Psychology is the scientific study of ones thoughts and behavior. People think psychologically every day for example when you try to explain what someone else is doing to another person. There are many fields of study that try to understand how people think and the actions they take. Psychology is used for many different reasons not only do they study the human behavior they also help mental patients and try to figure them out and a problem that they have. Learning the scientific perspective on human behavior can help you develop a curiosity for how the human behavior works (Feist 2013). When studying psychology it not only makes you more aware of how people work in a general setting it also makes you more aware of how you work yourself.

There are a couple types of psychology that I'm going to go over that I find to be very important. First would be developmental psychology, which is also referred to as human development in which the scientific study of psychological systematic changes, which occur within the human body over the course of ones life (Cherry 2010). In this field of study they examine changes that occur across a broad range of different topics including but not limited to motor skills and other psycho psychological processes. Most researchers are interested in how human’s personal characteristics interact with their individual behavior along with everyday I environmental factors including social context and how this impacts on development. Some test that would be assigned to a developmental psychologist would be to evaluate children to determine if they have any developmental disabilities also investigating how language skills are a...

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