Definitions of Psychology

Psychology, Taken from the Greek word “psyche” and “logos” literally means “soul or mind” and “study”. This original interpretation of term covering to concept- mind substance and matter substance,recent philosophical and scientific trends however, deal with this ambiguity by stressing conceptualized events as perception, learning and problem solving “without respect to the verity of possible metaphysical interpretation of what sort of substance participates in this events.

Psychology is a scientific study of a behavior. It attempts to explain behavior in two ways, the developmental approach accounting for behavior on the basis of what has gone before and the interactive approach, the basis of what is presently happening in the matter of stimuli, bodily condition and conflicting tendencies.

Like other behavioral sciences, its study overlaps neighboring science studies like biology, the social sciences and the physical sciences. Because the aim of a science is to discover new and useful information, the fact of psychology is not complete. It must rely on the data gathered from the recent researches which are amenable to experimental verification. Its makes use of precise and accurately measuring devices and methods like observation, case histories, intervis, biographics reports and data statistical method and the like.

Its scientific foundation dates back to Wilhelm Wundt (1832-1920) called the father of modern Psychology who opened the the first psychological laboratory in 1879 in the University of Leipzig Germany. The roots contemporary psychology can be traced to several school of thought like Structuralism, Functionalism, Gestalt, Purposivism, Individualism, Behavioralism and Psychoanalysis.