Psychology is a branch of scientific inquiry which deals with the study of the human mind. The people who study psychology are called psychologists. Human psychology is basically divided into the study of the conscious and the unconscious. The conscious is of course the self realized and the self expressed facts and feelings and the study of the unconscious is the in-depth analysis of the unexpressed and unrealized. Sigmund Freud is the most well known psychologist when it comes to the study of the unconscious mind. The study of Human mind also includes study of physiological and neurological patterns in respect to their relation and dependence on the human psyche.   Â
Just like in any other scientific inquiry, there are two methods of making inferences and analysis. There can be observation and then there can be experimental psychology. As the name suggests for both, they are inferences drawn on observations alone and it inferences drawn on Experiments. One might think how a person studies the behavior truly by setting up an experiment. The way it works is a scientist sets up the conditions artificially and then the subjects are called in and their behaviors noted. Its studies were first started in Germany, as a consequence of a physiological experiment. It bought to notice many consequential and astounding discoveries of the human mind. It has been a topic of debate since all this while. Many scientists refuse to accept it as a science to experiment on because of its atypical nature. Psychology cannot be proven by numbers and have often vague inferences, which cannot be generalized on larger groups of people. Also, since these are internal behavioral projections they cannot be measured in terms of intensity and power either. These questions were raised by the scientist named Kant. It was Herbart who mainly opposed such thinking and proved Kant wrong by setting up psychological experiments and devising inferences mathematically. Formal research in Psychology began in 1879 by Wilhelm Wundt from Germany. For the same reason Wundt is called father of psychology and 1879 is thus regarded as the birth year of psychology. The first book of psychology was published in 1890 called as Principles of Psychology, by an American psychologist names W. James. There have been many other prominent psychologists from the same era, one of the most famous ones being Pavlov. Pavlov was actually a physiologist and then went on to study human psychology; he came up with the classical conditioning.
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Two extremely important concepts in this are association and empiricism. These concepts were first studied by the British philosopher and psychologist.
Locke. Locke discussed the subjects of elating mind to objects and making associations for the first time in his articles. He created these studies focusing on internal experiences and understanding of the people. At a similar time period, Descartes and Bacon were also studying the same subject. The only difference was that while Locke focused on internal factors, Descartes and Bacon focused on external factors, environment and its effect.
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Just like in any other scientific inquiry, there are two methods of making inferences and analysis. There can be observation and then there can be experimental psychology. As the name suggests for both, they are inferences drawn on observations alone and it inferences drawn on Experiments. One might think how a person studies the behavior truly by setting up an experiment. The way it works is a scientist sets up the conditions artificially and then the subjects are called in and their behaviors noted. Its studies were first started in Germany, as a consequence of a physiological experiment. It bought to notice many consequential and astounding discoveries of the human mind. It has been a topic of debate since all this while. Many scientists refuse to accept it as a science to experiment on because of its atypical nature. Psychology cannot be proven by numbers and have often vague inferences, which cannot be generalized on larger groups of people. Also, since these are internal behavioral projections they cannot be measured in terms of intensity and power either. These questions were raised by the scientist named Kant. It was Herbart who mainly opposed such thinking and proved Kant wrong by setting up psychological experiments and devising inferences mathematically. Formal research in Psychology began in 1879 by Wilhelm Wundt from Germany. For the same reason Wundt is called father of psychology and 1879 is thus regarded as the birth year of psychology. The first book of psychology was published in 1890 called as Principles of Psychology, by an American psychologist names W. James. There have been many other prominent psychologists from the same era, one of the most famous ones being Pavlov. Pavlov was actually a physiologist and then went on to study human psychology; he came up with the classical conditioning.
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Two extremely important concepts in this are association and empiricism. These concepts were first studied by the British philosopher and psychologist.
Locke. Locke discussed the subjects of elating mind to objects and making associations for the first time in his articles. He created these studies focusing on internal experiences and understanding of the people. At a similar time period, Descartes and Bacon were also studying the same subject. The only difference was that while Locke focused on internal factors, Descartes and Bacon focused on external factors, environment and its effect.
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