Psychology is a branch, which scrutinizes the human conduct by exploring the views and activities of an individual in a scientific or vox populi manner. The aim of this branch in the domain of psychology is to define the realistic or popular concepts behind the behavior and actions of individuals (Plotkin, 1998). However, over a period of time, pop or popular psychology and professional psychology increased to the highest extent to disseminate psychology domain’s influence in the society. The pop psychology is pseudo psychological philosophy (lacking scientific evidences and involves myths), counseling, or notions to help masses to understand about humans’ behaviors. The self-help business is the foremost industry to broadcast human mental …show more content…
No rational methodologies or sound approaches exist in its framework. Further, daily understandings are taken for granted to simplify the understandings of the mental or physical behavior of the persons. In contrast, the professional psychology proceeds by implementing logical learning of psychological function and behavior. For example, in clinical, education, and criminological psychology and so on other field, logical studies of realizing, releasing and inhibiting cerebral suffering are carried out to promote individuals’ comfort. Methodologies such as cerebral behavioral, existential-humanistic, and family therapy system are also used in therapeutic treatments (Murphy, …show more content…
For example, human’s ability to use its brain, Anger management tips, self-esteem’s role in physiological issues, human memory myths, full moon or no moon’s effect in people’s mind, opposite sex attraction, and so on are examples of pop psychology philosophy (DePaulo et al., 1996). It has been found that, it has nothing to do with the reality and is gobbledygook. Conversely, the professional psychology involves specialists, or domain specific experts, who have profound knowledge on how different settings, social or cultural or personal factors play a role in human behavior and so they are able to address various ways the psychology can be executed. For instance, in the health domain, it realizes how environmental science, activities and social background affect health issues or disorders with the help of empirical researches (Murphy, 2006). The pop psychology propagates disadvantages such as incorrectly considered psychologically troubled people, misdiagnosed persons and because of that it may lead to other rational problems and partial knowledge’s implementation may aggravate people’s sound physical as well as mental well-being. Where, the professional psychology
Psychology comprises of two words originally used by the ‘Greeks’, ‘psyche’, defining the mind, soul or spirit and lastly ‘logos’ being study. Both words define together the ‘study of the mind’. Psychology perspectives evaluate the normal and abnormal behaviour and how persons’ deal with different concepts of issues and problems. Psychology theories’ are based on ‘common sense’, but its scientific structure, everything needs to be evaluated and tested, therefore, promoting different psychological theories’.
The birth of psychology was in December of 1879, at Germanys University of Leipzig (Myers, 2014, p.2). In 1960, Wilhelm Wundt and Edward Titchener defines psychology as “the science of mental health” (Myers, 2014, p.4). However, two provocative American psychologists, John Watson and B.F Skinner, redefined psychology in 1920. They redefined psychology as “the scientific study of observable behavior” (Myers, 2014, p.4). The problem arose when psychologists realized people could not observe feeling or thought so they needed to come up with a new definition for psychology. We define psychology today as “the science of behavior and mental processes” (Myers, 2014, p.4). Psychology includes many subfields such as human development, social behavior,
Psychology can be broadly defined as the scientific and systematic study of people’s behavior and mental processes.
Historically psychology was derived from philosophy. From the works of Aristotle to Plato and the others that followed, has played a part in the inception of this behavioral science. The concepts that were developed during that time has been built on and explained in greater volume. Today, many theories that was identified before has been improved into better understanding for readers, students and the wider public. Some are known under a new name while others hold their authentic name and rooted meaning. Such a theory is psychoanalysis, which is the unconscious processing as causes of mental illness (Hergenhahn 2013). There were many theorists who made contributions towards the development of this theory,
Psychology is a social science that aims to study the mind and the behaviors of humans. It aims to understand what drives humans to act the way they do. It differs from sociology and anthropology in that it takes accounts the individual rather than society as a whole.
Psychology is known as the science of human behavior and mental processes (Griggs, 2017, p. 1). It is very diverse and can be seen every day. One may not realize how prevalent psychology is in their daily lives and the things around them. An example of where psychology can be seen is in movies. In movies, different concepts of psychology are important in the development of the story. The movie Get out, written by Jordan Peele, manifests different concepts of psychology to present its true meaning. Throughout the movie, Get Out, the psychological concepts on behavior perspective, the sympathetic nervous system, and classical conditioning are emphasized.
The study of psychology began as a theoretical subject a branch of ancient philosophy, and later as a part of biological sciences and physiology. However, over the years, it has grown into a rigorous science and a separate discipline, with its own sets of guidance and experimental techniques. This paper aims to study the various stages that the science of psychology passed through to reach its contemporary status, and their effects on its development. It begins with an overview of the historical and philosophical basis of psychology, discusses the development of the various schools of thought, and highlights their effects on contemporary personal and professional decision-making.
Psychology is an ever growing field in today’s job field. Psychology comes from the Greek words “psych” meaning soul and “ology” meaning logic, it translates to “the science of the soul” (Ferguson). It was founded by a man named Wilhelm Wundt, he founded experimental psychology which later led to others discovering more in psychology Psychology is both a science and a profession, it is counted as a science because it’s about understanding people's behavior (Ferguson). Psychology is a great and interesting career choice for many generations
Psychology is the scientific study of the mind, brain, and behavior. In psychology, and all of the other sciences, relying on opinions is abandoned in order to find out which explanations best fit the evidence or data given. Science continually forces us to question our findings and conclusions. Over time, psychology has advanced greatly and a main reason for such progressiveness is because of the change in the research model used.
Psychology is concerned with the assessment, diagnosis, counseling and treatment of people concerning mental health. The three theories discussed above have thus focused on providing great contribution regarding the increased knowledge to the solving mental health problems. Psychoanalysis has explored several thoughts and has unearthed the aspect of unconscious mind; there is the theory of behaviorism that gives explanation on the reasons as to why people behave in a certain manner and finally the humanistic theory that is critical in explaining the nature of human beings in the
Hergenhahn, B.R. (2009). Social and Theoretical Psychology: Conceptual and Historical Issues 1. An introduction to the History of Psychology. 1 (1), p1-28.
Culture and socialisation are the two major entities that help shape our identity. The culture one is raised in as a child, and the people we come into contact with in our daily lives, can all be classified as encounters we have with socialisation. As young children who enter this world, we imitate those close to us and behaviours begin to form. It is through this imitation we also discover to express our emotions. These characteristics are engrained in us from a young age and are the major basic building blocks to help us develop our individual identities.
Psychology is about People The book addresses various social issues spanned across different topics that can be understood independently. However, as a whole, the book covers several concerns that are common to each issue raised in each topic. The first concern Eysenck addressed is the scientific study of social problems. He argued that psychology should be subjected to scientific methods of investigation and that there are indeed psychological concepts and theories that can be applied to this rigorous process.
The Science of Psychology “Psychology is the scientific study of mind, brain and behaviour. Some of what you do learn may seem like ‘common sense’, or at least familiar to you because you are learning about topics in which you can relate to. However some things you may believe is true, but is incorrect. The way we know this is through the application of scientific methods.” Mark Leary suggests that the subject matter of psychology is much more familiar to most people than is the subject matter of physics or biology; we see behaviour all around us.
Psychology is the scientific study and practical application of observable behavior and mental processes of organisms. Psychology differs from other social sciences such as: Sociology, History, or Economics, because psychology specifically deals with the study of an individual. The other social sciences will study groups, or history. Psychology is less a science of reported findings, it attempts asks and answers questions using observable behavior and what can be determined as mental processes of the subject. The symbol for psychology is the Greek letter “psi” (Ø). The subject matter of psychology is, affect, behavior, and cognition. The affect for psychology is the actual mental processes that make up: moods, feeling, and emotional state. An example for affect would be feeling sad about something happening. Behavior includes the actually actions and responses of organisms. Behavior can include the way we act in any given situation, for example when we get up in the morning. The order in the way we prepare ourselves for going out into public can be categorized as our behavior. Cognition is the actual mental events and the processes that result from them. Memories of an event are a great example of an organism’s cognition. The components and corresponding faces of psychology include the body of knowledge which is considered the teaching face, set of investigative methods or research face, and array of techniques the therapy face. The goals of psychology are: to explain behaviors, to describe behaviors, to predict behavior, and to modify inappropriate behaviors. Explaining behaviors would be a question similar to “Why does this happen?”, and example of how describing behavior could be accomplished would be asking “What causes this behavior, where does it come from?”. Predictions can be elaborated on by asking “When will the behavior occur?”. An example of a behavioral modification question is “What can be changed in the environment to alter this behavior?”. A specialized subfield of psychology that most interests me is, Forensic Psychology, because it would be appealing to me to understand a potential criminal mind and to make the determination if the criminal was sane at the time the crime was committed or if he/she was operating with full judgment. In studying the 9/11 attack on America, a Forensic Psyc...