PS101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Gestalt Psychology, Radical Behaviorism, Abnormal Psychology
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High profile events motivate and energize researches in psychology to attempt to document and understand such acts in the hope of attenuating their occurrence. Psychologists seek to describe, explain and predict the occurrence of such behavior by applying scientific methods they can offer possible explanations for this behavior as well as suggestions about what to do. While abnormal psychology is an important component, psychology. Its about how people are able to perceive colour, how hunger is regulated by the brain. As a science psychology demands that researchers ask precise questions about such issues and that they test their ideas though systematic observation. Provides a way of building knowledge that is relatively accurate and dependable. As psychology has evolved its focus methods and explanatory models have changes, psychology developed from philosophical speculations about the mind into a modern science. Psychology"s intellectual parents are the disciplines of philosophy and physiology. Wundt (founder of psychology) mounted campaign to make psychology an independent study.
