PSY 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Scientific Method, Behaviorism, Cognitive Revolution
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The scientific study of the mind and of behaviour. An academic discipline a major subject of scientific study in colleges and universities, aimed at discovering how the mind works and what determines how people behave. A profession which applies the results of scientific study to the healing of individuals (adapting people to the world), making the world easier for people to function within (adapting the world to people), and the betterment of humankind. So, psychology is a science that tries to figure out how the human mind works, and ultimately, how it enables us to do all the remarkable things that we do. How do our minds enable us to think, taste, learn & remember, speak and do math. Some initial questions about psychology (1) is psychology really a science, like physics, chemistry and. Biology? (2) isn"t psychology all just common sense"? (aren"t we all really. Psychologists, interested in other people and forming theories about how they work? (1) yes.
