Psychological science: Content, methodology, history and profession

Type :

Presentation

Pages :

6 pages

Format :

.doc

Published date :

11/28/2008

Category :

Social studies

Sub category :

Psychology

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Summary :

Introduction.
Relations of psychological science to common-sense psychology.
1. Difference between modern scientific psychology and folk psychology.
2. Failure to recall something from long-term.
How should psychology be classified among the disciplines?
Human behavior as a shared object of study.
1. Correlated biological-medical sciences.
2. Correlated social sciences.
3. Other cross-disciplinary links.
Psychological methodology.
Varieties and criteria of psychological methodology.
Ethics of psychological investigations.
Theoretical psychology.
Conclusion.

Abstract

People have always had to study each other's behavior closely, but it was only in the nineteenth century that psychology emerged as an academic and scientific discipline, and only in the twentieth century that it also became a major field of professional activity. References to the human mind and how it may operate and translate into overt behavior can be traced back to specimens of written history, poetry, and philosophical speculations dating centuries B.C.E. During the last one hundred years, psychological science has made tremendous strides, both in understanding behavior and mental processes and in applying this to practical problems, for example, in education and health, in industry and other work contexts, and in personal guidance and psychotherapy.