Psychology is the scientific study of behavior and mental processes. It examines topics like perception, cognition, emotion, behavior, and social interactions. Psychology has roots in philosophy but became an independent science in the late 19th century. It uses scientific methods to observe, describe, predict, and explain human behavior and experiences. Psychology has various fields that study different topics like cognitive processes, abnormal psychology, development, and therapy. It also has many applications in areas like counseling, psychotherapy, education, health, and business.

1. INTRODUCTION TO
GENERAL
PSYCHOLOGY
The world of psychologyShaikh Abdul Mosin
Bsc-Viscom, Msc-
Psychology
PERCEPTION
C O G N I T I O N
EMOTION
BEHAVIOUR
SOCIAL SCIENTIST
B E H A V I O U R A L S C I E N T I S T
COGNITIVE SCIENTIST
EXPERIMENTAL
BIOLOGICAL
PERSONALITY
SOCIAL
CLINICAL
PSYCHOLOGYMIND
COUNSELING
HAPPYINESS
SARROW
CRY
ANGER
SEX

2. Introduction
 Psychology derives from two Greek words,
“Psyche and Logos”
 Literally psychology mean the study of souls
but now it is study of mind.
 Psychology primarily studies WHO and WHAT
we are, WHY we act and think in a particular
manner and what is our potential as an
individual.
 Study of psychology is concerned with specific
study of behavior and mental process.

3. What is Specific Studies?
 Psychology search for answer to the questions
WHAT, WHERE and WHY. They develop
theories of human functioning, often
developing new approaches to current
knowledge.
 As a science, psychology uses systematic
method to observe, describe, predict and
explain human behavior and mental process.

4. Defining Psychology:
 Psychology can be defined as the scientific study of
behavior and mental process. From the word behavior
one can extract two meaning, because there are two
kind of behavior Overt and Covert behavior.
 Overt behavior are those which is visible to other in
other word seen behaviors, Example: The way we
Talk, Walk, Dress, Eat and so on… in short these are
the action we see and observe in individual and group
around us..
 Covert behavior are those which is not obvious to the
people around us. Simply they are unseen behavior.
For example, Feeling such as anger, jealousy,
kindness, pity, happiness and sad. In fact, covert can
be deduced from the overt.

5. Psychology Evolution
 Psychology grew out from philosophical tradition of
thinking about the mind and the body.
 Psychology did not only emerge from philosophy, but
has roots in natural science of biology and physiology
as well (Benjamin, 1999).
 Charles Darwin, proposed psychology as science in his
book On the origin of spices.
 In 19th century , Physiologist also gave a boot to the
new field of psychology. Johannes Muller, a German
psychologist, proposed that an important role is to
associate incoming sensory information with
appropriate motor response.
 However, modern psychology was born in December
1879 at the University Leipzig, Germany, with the work
of Wilhelm Wundt.

6. Fields of Psychology
 Structuralism.
 Functionalism.
 Behaviourism.
 Gestalt.
 Psychoanalysis.

7. Sub-Fields of Psychology
 Abnormal Psychology.
 Adult Psychology.
 Animal (or)
Comparative
Psychology.
 Biological Psychology.
 Child Psychology.
 Clinical Psychology.
 Educational
Psychology.
 Experimental
Psychology.
 General Psychology.
 Genetic Psychology.
 Industrial Psychology.
 Military Psychology.
 Quantitative
Psychology.
 Social (or) Group
Psychology.

8. Counselling
 Counselling is a cooperative exercise where
counsellors do not solve people’s problem but
rather serve the person by discussing new
approaches to solve a problem, by giving
needed information, by helping to clarify
thoughts and feeling, or just through listening

9. Psychotherapy
 Psychotherapy is a treatment contracted
between a trained professional and a client,
patient, family, couple, or group. The problems
addressed are psychological in nature and can
vary in terms of their causes, influences,
triggers, and potential resolutions.
 Once if his/her problem is found out then the
therapist will help client to come out of their
problem by different way of therapies.

10. Conclusion
Psychology has been part of every humans life.
Understanding our psychology(behaviour) will
help us to understand other.
Counselling and Psychotherapy are not same,
anyone who is good listener can do counselling
but only trained professional is capable of
psychotherapy.

11. Introduction to General psychology
Shaikh Abdul Mosin
Bsc-Viscom, Msc-Psychology
Email:
shaikh.mosin26@gmail.com
PERCEPTION
C O G N I T I O N
EMOTION
BEHAVIOUR
SOCIAL SCIENTIST
B E H A V I O U R A L S C I E N T I S T
COGNITIVE SCIENTIST
EXPERIMENTAL
BIOLOGICAL
PERSONALITY
SOCIAL
CLINICAL
PSYCHOLOGYMIND
COUNSELING
HAPPYINESS
SARROW
CRY
ANGER
SEX