The document provides an introduction to the field of psychology. It discusses how psychology evolved from the study of the soul and mind to also include the study of behavior and conscious experience. It notes that Wilhelm Wundt is considered the father of psychology for opening the first experimental psychology lab in 1879. The document also mentions that there are different schools of thought in psychology and provides some definitions of psychology from different scholars that focus on understanding and investigating human and animal behavior.

1. INTRODUCTION
PSYCHOLOGY
By
Rajee Ravindran
Faculty ,RMLCON

2. PSYCHOLOGY
psyche logos
Soul Study of

3. Study of soul
Study of mind
Study of conscious experience
Study of behaviour
Evolution of meaning of psychology
William James
Wilhelm Wundt

4. behaviour
Any response or activity of an organism.
It can either be simple, complex; overt or covert; conscious or unconscious;
voluntary or involuntary; rational or irrational

6. History and origin of science of psychology
Wilhelm Wundt
(1832 -1920)
Opened the Institute for
Experimental
Psychology at the
University of Leipzig in
Germany in 1879.
A machine that measured the time lag between people’s hearing a ball hit the
platform and their pressing a telegraph key.
Father of
psychology

7. Schools of psychology Schools of thought
examination

8. Schools of psychology
John Dewey
James R Angell
Harvey Carr

9. Schools of psychology

10. Schools of psychology

11. Schools of psychology

12. DEFINITIONS OF PSYCHOLOGY
“Psychology is the science of human behaviour.”
(Walter Bowers Pillsbury- 1911)
“Psychology is a science, which aims to give us better
understanding and control of the behaviour of the organism as a
whole.” ( William McDoughall- 1949)
“Psychology is the investigation of human and animal behaviour
and of the mental and physiological processes associated with the
behaviour.” (Jackson- 1976)

13. Scope of psychology