PSYC 4008 : Orientation - Test 1
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How did the apa (american psychological association) define "psychology": psychology is the study of the mind and behavior. The discipline embraces all aspects of the human experience from the functions of the brain to the actions of nations, from child development to care for the aged. The understanding of behavior" in the end, it is brought down to behavior. Many people have an issue with the fact that one can actually study the mind. What is history: description of events (what happened), including (usually) a chronology (dimension of time), and explication of cause and effect based on evidence, not only are we interested in explaining how something happened, but why it happened. A statement or theory that cannot, in principle, be tested is worthless. They are the same type of phenomenon something that happens over moments of time. Example candidates of historical laws: those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. (law of repetitive.
