2. PSYCHOLOGY
Psychology dealswith many problemsof our everyday life and
with things we have alreadyexperienced. Earlier psychology
concentrated on the study of sensory processesm, perception,
simple, learningand memory.
Psycology was defined by JOHN B.WATSON as the SCIENTIFIC
STUDY OF HUMAN AND ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR.
Psycology is gradually nearing the goal of understanding human
behavior.
3. PSYCOLOGY AS SCIENCE
A science is body of systemized knowledge that is gratherd by
carefully observing and measuring events.
Psycology deals with actual experience and sets out of study
this experimentally with exact method.
CONCEPTS AND TERMS
Another important charachteristic of science is definitionof
ther terms and concepts used. Concepts amd terms should not
be vague and abstract. They ahouldconvey the same meaning
to all the psychologist, psychology, as science, uses operational
definitionof terms.
APPLIED VALUE
Psycology is being applied,today to each and every activity of
human being in the area of health, industry, school, and
eduction we can very well say that it has appliedvaluein our
lives like other science.
4. HYSTORY OF PSYCOLOGY
Although psychology has been organized as an independent
disciplinefor little more than a century, psycologist speculation
and practice can be found in the records ofmost ancient
civilization.
EBERS PAPYRUS- An ancient Egyption document devoted to
medical matter dating from before 1500 bc for example,
describe practices strikingly dimilarto modern hypnosis.
HERODOTUS- The world first history book, which was
completed in about 429 BC, according to Herodotus the
experiment was performd by the ancient Egyption Pharaoh
Psammetichus.
5. Psammetichus concluded that the capacity for speech is inborn
and that tha innate, natural languageof human beings in
Phrygian.
William H. Thorpe- Who regarded birds in isolationfrom
members of their own species in order to discover the innate
features of their songs.
ARISTOTLE- the views of Aristotle can not be assigned to either
camp. Aristotle was a theorist as well as an observer. Watson
considerds him to have been the first psycologist because he
tired to present a systemic and integrated view of function of
human mind.
This unifyingconcept is present in Aristotle view of the
“psyche” often interpreted as “soul” or “mind”. Aristotle’s
“soul” includesmatter as well as functioning of the mind.
Aristotle’s “Psyche” did not have any religiousor supernatural
properties.