History of Psychology

Psychology is the study of behavior and mental processes. Behavior is everything we do that can be directly observed. Mental processes are the thoughts, feelings, and motives that each of us experiences privately but that cannot be observed directly.

When dealing with science, psychology uses systematic methods to observe human behavior and draw conclusions. The goals of psychological science are to describe, predict, and explain behavior. Also, psychologists are often interested in controlling or changing behavior, and they use scientific methods to examine interventions that might help.

Psychology is the study of how and why we behave as we do. In this course, you may come across factors which affect behavior; such as habits, attitudes, emotions and personality and how they are developed. It also includes discussions of how we learn and how to get along with others. Psychologist uses 7 approaches to help with the studies of learning psychology.

Those approaches are:

1.Biological-Belief that cause of behavior is your brain

2.Evolutionary-Mental abilities evolve over millions years

3. Psychodynamic-Behavior is result of unconscious dynamics

4.Behavioral-Environmental conditions like rewards/punishments

5.Cognitive-Based on mental process(Speaking, Thinking, etc.)

6.Humanistic-Main task of humans is a grow and develop

7.Social-Cultural-Behavior results from social and cultural influences