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The subject Psychology (how to answer questions)
Definition of psychology
It is the scientific study of behavioral activities and experiances including both internal processes and external movements of an organism that stem due to the interaction of the mental processes with the world.
What is behaviour
Any manifestation in life is activity. Behavior is a collected name for all such manifestations
Spoken in terms of [Stimulus-Response]
What kind of science is psychology?
Pure science
Conduct experiments,tests, frame hypothesis
Laws and principles can be derived
Mathematical and statistics are used to establish relability, validity and proper interpretation of experimental results
Psychometry: Deals with the quantitative measurements of various mental processes
Social science
It studies psychosocial relations of human beings within their socio-cultural context
Traces social issues which are associated with the developmental of human behaviour and their IMPACT ON HUMAN BEHAVIOUR.
Analyse social problems from psychological perspective
Formation of prejudice and ways to combat it
Biological science
Perceptual and cognitive functioning, different areas of brain, spinal cord and nervous system ---->involved invariably
Thinking (or in other intellectual functioning)
even in emotion
different areas of the brain, automous nervous system and glandular system are SIGNIFICANTLY RESPONSIBLE.
Genes, DNA and galnds are implicated in the case of certain psychological disorders.
Developing positive science
Psychology is a developemental positive science
Pre-Scientific psychology
17th centure- conditions of body---->regulated by witchcraft and black magic
Socrates and Plato and Aristotle
identified soul or mind as the controller of the movements or activities of human beings
Rene Descartes-----> Dualism (mind and body were seperate entities and they interacted though the pineal gland)
John Locke
Doctrine of empiricm
Knowledge was aquired through experiances derived from senses