INTRODUCTION TO PSYCHOLOGY - ESSAY
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INTRODUCTION TO PSYCHOLOGY
PSY FS01
Name : Ow Su Ying
Roll Num : 121383035
Group : 1
What Is Psychology?
What is psychology? There are many misconceptions created by television and movies today, but the basic answer is that psychology is both an applied and academic science that studies the human mind and behavior. No matter what area of psychology you refer to, research in psychology seeks to understand and explain thought, emotion, and behavior. Psychology is applied to individuals via mental health treatment, performance enhancement, self-help, ergonomics, and many other areas affecting health and daily life.
Psychology can be defined as the scientific study of behavior rand mental processor.The word "psychology" comes from the Greek word psyche eaning"breath, spirit, soul", and the Greek word logia meaning the study of something.
According to Medilexicon's medical dictionary, psychology is "The profession (clinical psychology),scholarly discipline(academic psychology), and science (research psychology) concerned with the behavior of humans and animals, and related mental and physiologic processes."
Biography
Max Wertheimer was born in Prague on April 15, 1880. His father was an educator and served as the director of a local school in addition to teaching. Max studied law for more than two years, but decided he preferred philosophy. He left to study in Berlin, where he took classes from Stumpf, then got his doctoral degree (summa cum laude) from Külpe and the University of Würzburg in 1904. In 1910, he went to the University of Frankfurt’s Psychological Institute. While on vacation that same year, he became interested in the perceptions he experienced on a train. While stopped at the station, he bought a toy stroboscope -- a spinning drum with slots to look through and pictures on the inside, sort of a primitive movie machine or sophisticated flip book. At Frankfurt, his former teacher Friedrich Schumann, now there as well,
INTRODUCTION TO PSYCHOLOGY
PSY FS01
Name : Ow Su Ying
Roll Num : 121383035
Group : 1
What Is Psychology?
What is psychology? There are many misconceptions created by television and movies today, but the basic answer is that psychology is both an applied and academic science that studies the human mind and behavior. No matter what area of psychology you refer to, research in psychology seeks to understand and explain thought, emotion, and behavior. Psychology is applied to individuals via mental health treatment, performance enhancement, self-help, ergonomics, and many other areas affecting health and daily life.
Psychology can be defined as the scientific study of behavior rand mental processor.The word "psychology" comes from the Greek word psyche eaning"breath, spirit, soul", and the Greek word logia meaning the study of something.
According to Medilexicon's medical dictionary, psychology is "The profession (clinical psychology),scholarly discipline(academic psychology), and science (research psychology) concerned with the behavior of humans and animals, and related mental and physiologic processes."
Biography
Max Wertheimer was born in Prague on April 15, 1880. His father was an educator and served as the director of a local school in addition to teaching. Max studied law for more than two years, but decided he preferred philosophy. He left to study in Berlin, where he took classes from Stumpf, then got his doctoral degree (summa cum laude) from Külpe and the University of Würzburg in 1904. In 1910, he went to the University of Frankfurt’s Psychological Institute. While on vacation that same year, he became interested in the perceptions he experienced on a train. While stopped at the station, he bought a toy stroboscope -- a spinning drum with slots to look through and pictures on the inside, sort of a primitive movie machine or sophisticated flip book. At Frankfurt, his former teacher Friedrich Schumann, now there as well,