PSYC 222 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Public Knowledge, Science Advances
26 Jan 2017
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Plural sciences shows the diversity of content, signals to look at psychology"s methods, not its content. Chapter 1: psychology is alive and well (and doing fine among the sciences) Most of the general public think freud made the most significant contribution to psychology. His work is only a small part of the larger body of research that concerns modern psychology. Freud"s theory was not supported by his database. Henry gleitman"s definition of psychology: a loosely federated intellectual empire that stretches from the domains of the biological sciences on one border to those of the social sciences on the other . There is no one big psychological theory that explains all human behavior; there are many. Cacioppo views psychology as a hub discipline it"s a science whose findings have wide implications for other fields. Psychology is not the only group that studies human behavior and/or helps people. Psychology is different from other behavioral fields gives the public two guarantees:
