Human Psychology, psychology
is the science that studies the behavior of people and personalities of each of
them; also how is structured brain function. To understand the psychology is
necessary to know some concepts that help us to supplement the knowledge and
know ourseves even know what kind of personality we have and how is way we
handle every day situations.
What are the different kinds of
psychology?
We can divide psychology into two big areas called
experimental psychology and social psychology.
- Experimental
psychology uses
classic, laboratory-based, scientific methods to study human behavior: it
uses similar techniques to physics, chemistry, or biology, often carried
out in a lab, except that instead of studying light rays, chemical
reactions, or beetles, the experiments involve ourselves and other people.
- Social
psychology tends
to study how people behave in real-world situations—for example, how
people react to advertisements, why they commit crimes, and how we can
work more efficiently in offices and factories. Social psychology doesn't
always involve experiments; it might be based on questionnaires or
observations instead.
Of course, we can study social psychology in a lab
using rigorous experiments, just as we can carry out meticulous experiments in
the real world; the division I've drawn between experimental and social
psychology is arbitrary and artificial, but it reflects the way psychology is
often taught in schools and colleges, and how it's written up in textbooks and
scientific papers. The reason for that is largely historical: in the late
19th-century, when psychology was still a very new field, psychologists were
keen to be taken seriously as scientists, so they tried to adopt scientific
methods to cloak the things they studied in respectability. To this day,
there's a certain stigma attached to social psychology and sociology (the study
of how individuals and groups behave in society); whether fairly or not, some
people see them as soft sciences lacking academic rigor. At Cambridge
University in England, for example, the psychology department still calls
itself the "Department of Experimental Psychology" and its curriculum
includes relatively little social psychology.[1]
Source; [1]
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