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What Psychology Is To Me
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What Psychology Is To Me |
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What Psychology is to Me
What Psychology is to Me
After taking Psychology 1000, psychology means much more to me than it
did prior to taking the class. At the beginning of the semester, I was asked to
define the word psychology, and the best definition I could muster was simply
the study of the mind and how it works. After examining the large realm of the
science of psychology I now realize that this definition was quite incomplete.
My initial definition simply covered the branch of psychology known as
cognitive psychology, and this is only one of many areas that are actually
included under the title psychology. Many psychologists focus on more
quantitative aspects than the function of the human mind. There are several
different areas that are more easily researched than that of the brain's
functionality. An example would be behavioral psychology in which the focus is
put on observing behavior rather than on the processes going on inside the
brain that invoke the subject's behavior. This is just one of the many examples
that illustrate this point, and that makes developing a working definition of
the term psychology extremely difficult to attain.
The range of topics that are considered psychology is very surprising to
a newcomer in the field. Everything from determining which parts of the brain
are responsible for controlling certain senses to
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