At the beginning of this class, before I read any of the book I thought psychology was the study of the human mind and human thoughts. I figured it was complex, but I never guessed it would be THIS complex. Most people think of sciences as working with chemicals and things, but psychology is also a science-complete with hypothosis' and conclusions.
I think that psychology affects my life in many ways. I have often wondered why I thought things that I thought or dreamt things that I have dreamt, and I believe through psychology I will be able to learn these things.
In reading the prologue I learned a lot of things, but the most predominant two would be the fact that the study of psychology didn't really start until 1879, and the many subfeilds that psychology encompasses. I found that it didn't start until 1879 interesting because I would have thought it would start much earlier than that. Obviously they mean the study of psychology as we know it today, but that is still a fairly recent time.
I also found the many subfeilds interesting because there are so many professions that research different parts of psychology in different ways. Way more than I had thought of previously.
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Psychology is very complex which isn't that good because it is everywhere around us, we can't get away from it. Sorry Beth, but this is probably why our lives are so complex as well.
ReplyDeleteI also find it interesting that Psychology (as we know it today) did not originate until 1879. I would have thought it to have started around the time of Charles Darwin. It is interesting to see how the concepts have changed from the time of Plato in 387 BC all the way to today.
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