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What is Psychology?

The scientific study of behavior and mental processes and how they are affected by an organism’s physical state, mental state and external environment.

What is Psychology?The scientific study of behavior and mental processes and how they are affected by an organism’s physical, state, mental state, and external environment.

• Scientific study requires several things:

1. Theoretical framework

2. Testable Hypotheses

3. Empirical evidence

• Behavior and mental processes include overt, observable instances ( include subtle kinds of instances, like brain activity.)

What is Psychology?The scientific study of behavior and mental processes and how they are affected by an organism’s physical state , mental state, and external environment .

• Organism : Humans beings and living things

• Physical state : Biological state mainly brain and nervous system

• Mental state : Mind and its processes

• External Environment : Surrounding situations, locations, atmosphere, society, etc,

What’s Happening in Our Class?

1. Taking a look at Psychology by asking five broad questions.

• How do we act?

• How do we think/know?

• How do we interact?

• How do we differ ?

• How do we similar?

Method of psychology

• Introspection or self observation method

• The observation method or systematic observation

• The experimental method

• The survey method

• The test method

• The case history or clinical method

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Types/scope of Psychology?Pure or Basic

psychology

• General

• Social

• Abnormal

• Developmental

• Evolutionary

• Biological

• Experimental

Applied psychology

• Counseling

• Health

• Clinical

• Educational

• Industrial

• Political

• Military

Pure or Basic psychology• General : Perception, learning, memory, Intelligence, personality..etc

• Social :Group behavior, interpersonal relations, attitude, prejudice, etc..

• Abnormal : Anxiety, depression, eating/sleeping disorders, schizophrenia

• Developmental: Life-span, child, adolescence, old age

• Socio culture : Gender identity, sexual orientation, asian-africans, asian..

• Biological : Brain, CNS, Glands, Neurons…

• Experimental : Process of learning, reasoning, judgment, etc

• Para Psychology : Extra sensory pre recognition, rebirth, telepathy,

clairvoyance, Psychiokinesis,

Applied psychology• Counseling : Student mentoring, career, lifestyle change, form habits,

work – life balance, aptitude, intelligence, marital adjustment..

• Health : Pressure, conflicts, exercise, diets, sleeping, substance usage..

• Clinical : Assessment, diagnosis, treatment, preventions mental disorder

• Educational : Children learning, concentration, memory, intelligence….

• Industrial : employee motivation, relation ,productivity, attitude,

• Political : System, people behavior, public system,

• Military : Soldiers behavior in war, protections, motivation, citizen..

Nursing Vs Psychology

1. Understanding oneself

2. Understand others.

3. Understand environment

4. Body – mind – spirit harmony

5. Solving mental and physical problems

1. Development and maturation, learning and motivation, personality and behavior, Adaptation, counseling, Research..etc

Behavior & Adjustment Human behavior is the interaction between physical and mental

factors. All forms of behavior are responses to stimuli

STIMULISTIMULISTIMULISTIMULI RESPONSERESPONSERESPONSERESPONSE

Environmental Physical responses

Emotions and Feelings Organic responses

NeedsMotivation

Intellectual perception Intellectual responses

Adjustment is defines as the continuous processes of satisfying one’s desires, and its involves many aspects of behavior

Affectionate and productive, successful life, openness and trustworthy, Authentic,……