psychology

     

Psychology (from Greek: ψυχή, psychē, "soul", "self" or "min"; and λόγος, logos, "speech" lit. "to talk about the psyche") is an academic and applied discipline involving the scientific study of mental processes and behavior (Psychology studies human behavior, not mental processes, Cognitive Psychology studies mental processes, but psychology in general studies human behavior). There is some tension between scientific psychology (with its program of empirical research) and applied psychology (dealing with a number of areas).

Trivia about psychology

  • In 1908 Hermann Ebbinghaus said this field "has a long past, but only a short history"
  • At Cornell, "Intuitive Judgment" & "Comparative Cognition" are courses in this department
  • "Introduction to" this explored its "approaches to the biological, cognitive, social, and emotional bases of behavior"
  • The abnormal branch of this field studies mental disorders, deviance & just plain weirdness
  • Major in this -ology at Colgate & you'll take "Human Condition" or "Learning and Cognition" before you're a senior
  • (Cheryl of the Clue Crew shows an optical illusion on the monitor.) The duck-rabbit figure with a duck's bill here and a rabbit's nose here was first commented on by Joseph Jastro who studied the brain's role in perception as one of America's first professors of this
  • William James wished that "by treating" this discipline "like a natural science" it would help it to become one
  • Abnormal, clinical & comparative are major fields of this discipline
  • From the Greek for "soul", this social science has clinical, developmental & social branches

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