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What Is Psychology?
What Is Psychology?
Psychology is the science of behavior and mind, including conscious and unconscious
development, as well as feeling and thought. It is an academic discipline of immense scope
and diverse interests that, when taken together, seek an understanding of the properties
of brains. As a social science it aims to understand individuals and groups by establishing
general principles and researching specific cases.
Psychology is also not to be confused with “common sense facts”, nor should it be
considered only speculation. Psychology follows an empirical approach based on observations
as well as scientific research.
First and foremost, there are three major groups of psychologists that work within the
field. There are experimental psychologists who do research, teachers of psychologists who
often do research as well as teach, and there are applied psychologists who solve human
problems by applying the research done of experimental psychologists. Psychologists explore
behavior and mental processes, including perception, cognition, attention, emotion,
intelligence, phenomenology, motivation, brain functioning, and personality. This extends to
interaction between people, such as interpersonal relationships, including psychological
resilience, family resilience, and other areas. Psychologists of diverse orientations also
consider the unconscious mind.
Also, their research is mainly focused on the human behavior. What is human behavior
really? It is the response of individuals or groups of humans to internal and external stimuli. It
refers to the array of every physical action and noticeable emotion associated with
individuals, as well as the human race. While specific traits of one's personality and
temperament may be more consistent, other behaviors will change as one moves from birth
through adulthood. In addition to being dictated by age and genetics, behavior, driven in part
by thoughts and feelings, is an insight into individual psyche, revealing among other
things attitudes and values. Social behavior, a subset of human behavior, study the
considerable influence of social interaction and culture.