The Science Of Psychology And Psychology

Psychology is a broad field that studies the human mind, behavior and mental processes. However I was surprised to learn that psychology also refers to love, stress, wisdom, and more topics that allows one learn more about themself. There are four goals of psychology: describe, understand, predict, and control behavior. Not only is psychology a science, it is a profession.

What is psychology? What impact does psychology have on the world? What does it mean to be a psychologist? These are three important questions that will be investigated throughout this paper. Psychology is the scientific study of the human mind and behavior. Psychology influences many behaviors in the world without anyone noticing.

Burrhus Frederic Skinner was born and raised in Susquehanna, a little town in Pennsylvania on March 20,1904 (B.F. Skinner Foundation, 2014;Biography.com Editors, n.d.). He was an imaginative and inventive child that built different mechanism which included, a cart that steered backwards, a perpetual motion machine, and a flotation device that separated ripe from unripe fruit (B.F. Skinner Foundation, 2014). As he grew older, he also showed an interest in writing, and the ideas of Francis Bacon, whose ideas of inductive reasoning influenced Skinner (B.F. Skinner Foundation, 2014). According to the B.F. Skinner Foundation (2014) once in college Skinner chose to be a writer, he attended Hamilton and after graduating returned home and wrote a few articles which brought him little to no success. He later moved to New York and worked as a bookstore clerk where he stumbled upon the works of Pavlov and Watson, they held an impression on him and he strived to learn more (B.F. Skinner Foundation, 2014).

Though Skinner was not the founder of Behaviorism, he was quite possibly the most well versed in the subject. He had admiration for the founders but he always felt like something was missing. When studying animals, he noticed that they did not just act on command and remain still when not told to do so; they are always doing something to better their survival. They tend to keep doing things that are beneficial to them such as going back to the same location for water. Skinner developed a device to test and train these animals (rats) to repeat an action for a reward (food). This device

Psychology is defined as the scientific study of the behavior and mental process of individuals. In psychology there are many different perspectives that are employed. In this paper, this student will identify a few influential psychologists that paved the road for modern psychology.

In Psychology There are six modern psychological perspectives. These perspectives are behavioral, psychodynamic, humanistic, cognitive, social, cultural, and biological. Each perspective has its own unique way of explaining human behavior. I think that really explains the complex mental processes and behavior, and each prospective study should not be limited to just one. The following is my explanation of the terms and comparisons between the psychodynamic and behavioral aspects relating to the October 2000 article in the American Psychologist., Hunger, eating, and I11 Health, by John PJ Pinel, Sunaina Assanand and Darrin R. Lehman.

One of the many amazing things about psychology is that it can be used in a lot of different situations, which makes it one of the most interesting and in depth subjects I have studied. I’m shocked at the amount of theories and concepts there are, all about how the mind works and how it forms them into what makes them. After reading and learning about the large amount of ideas that have come about through psychology, is the specific reason of what has kept me curious and kept me keen to continue studying the subject and to learn all that I can about it. Continuing to study psychology will allow me to learn more about the many things that affect our changing attitudes throughout life. starting with developmental psychology.

Besides books, Skinner also had many notable inventions under his name. When he was a young boy, he invented a device to remind him to pick up his clothes off the floor. Later in his life, Skinner developed a technology for the military that allowed pigeon-guided missiles to be used. Burrhus also invented a device called the ‘air-crib.’ He used the crib on his second daughter as an experiment. The idea was good, but the ‘air-crib’ never caught on due to it looking like a toddler aquarium. B.F. Skinner also invented the teaching machine. The machine literally taught children like a teacher using Skinner’s principles. He was so confident in the idea that he once said “I have no doubt at all that programmed instruction based on operant principles will take over education.” B.F. Skinner was clearly ahead of his time. Look at modern online courses and one would see a striking resemblance (Rutherford 1).

Psychology first started in 1879 by Wilhelm Wundt who founded the first laboratory which specialized in psychology at the University of Leipzig in Germany. Wundt used controlled experiments to investigate the mind by using a method called introspection which examined an individual’s mental state to gain an understanding of how our mind works. This approach became known as Structuralism, deals with the study of the conscious mind, with the idea that the conscious mind can be broken down into basic elements that combined to form to the structure of the human mind.

The unified approach refers to a common basis within a field in which all agree. Historically psychology has tried to establish a unified approach using structuralism. Structuralism explores the structure of the human mind by analysing consciousness into component parts. Psychologists later excluded structuralism in exchange towards functionalism (Magnavita, 2005). Psychology is the scientific study of behaviour and the mind. While behaviour can be directly observed for example through actions and responses, the mind cannot directly be seen for example thoughts. Psychology trusts upon the feedback of participants through gathering data and then analysing to conclude. All research occurs while adhering to the BPS code of ethics. There are a variety of ways to study the mind and behaviour and similarly there are a variety of approaches to psychology. Unlike chemistry and physics, which adopt a singular purpose and agreed consensus. Psychology can be complex and therefore cannot rely solely on one approach ( Gleitman, Reisberg & Gross, 2010)

I guess that B.F Skinner was a scientist in the field of psychology, and he was a behaviorist that introduced and explained the

The minds of men have never been a terribly cogent or consistent place, rather one that primarily “oscillates between sense and nonsense” (Jung). This, of course, begs the question as to why are we, as human beings, are the way we are; what makes us tick? Most people have probably asked this question at one point or another, there are those of us today who have dedicated their entire lives to answering this question. Humanity’s answer to this conundrum is the scientific field of Psychology, the study of the human mind and its functions. Psychology can be traced back to as far as 428 B.C. stemming from the Ancient Greeks (Plato), but at this time it was more philosophic thought than a field of science; it did not become a legitimate scientific field until the early 1800s. Before the 1800s, even after its founding to an extent, it was not fully accepted to be science; other scholars thought the study of the human mind and its mechanisms to be too abstract a field to be considered anything but philosophy. As biology developed and neurology emerged psychology gained the support it needed to given credence by other scholars and fields of science. Moving farther ahead in the history of psychology, what we would today largely recognize as practices contemporary did not come about until even later point on the psychology timeline. Furthermore, contemporary psychology is dramatically different from modern day psychology, this is a science that has grown and evolved dramatically even

Have you ever thought about what will happen when a child makes a mistake and gets punished for it? Next time when he tries again to do the same thing he will do less and less. This is a theory that B.F. Skinner based his operations on, called operant conditioning. B.F. Skinner was a leading “behaviorist,” who rejected introspection and studied how consequences shape behavior. Introspection is the self-observation of one’s conscious. Burrhus Frederic Skinner was born on March 20, 1904 in Susquehanna Depot, Pennsylvania. He grew up in an active household, his mother being a tough and bright housewife and his father a hard-working lawyer. As a child, B.F. Skinner was active, outgoing, and intelligent, he loved school. After B.F. Skinner successfully graduated from high school, he enrolled at Hamilton College in New York. Later on, he decided to go back to school this time at Harvard University to study psychology.

From ancient times people were interested in psyche, but the systematic collection of empirical knowledge began in the nineteenth century, in Germany. Hermann Ebbinghaus (the German psychologist) in the "Outline of Psychology" wrote a significant sentence: "Psychology has a long past, but a short history.” (Landrum, No date) Comparatively to physics or chemistry, psychology is a relatively new discipline. (Carlson, Martin & Buskist, 2004) Before that, psychology was treated as a branch of philosophy. Philosophers who have made the greatest contribution to the psychology development were: Plato (who as first described the internal conflicts), Aristotle (who created systematic classification of mental processes), St. Augustine and Descartes. German scientists as Müller, Helmholtz and Fechner were the first who applied the experimental methods. Their works are related to the borderland of physiology and psychology (perception of stimuli). As appeared so late, have psychology found a place in a science world? (Hergenhahn, Henley, 2013).

Psychology is a discipline of social science that encompasses nearly every aspect of the human experience. The field of psychology addresses the entire gamut of human behavior and the complexities of emotion. Issues related to perception and cognition are included in psychological research. Neurobiology and neurophysiology also fall under the rubric of psychology. At the same time, psychology embraces less quantifiable variables in the human experience, such as emotional responses and altered states of consciousness. Because psychology is a broad field, it exhibits a great degree of overlap with other social science disciplines ranging from anthropology to business and marketing.