What is Psychology?: An Introductory Series, #0
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Perfect for students, anyone interested in psychology and psychology for beginners.
What is psychology?
What areas of human behaviour does psychology cover?
What approaches are there to human behaviour?
If the answer is yes to any of those questions and more, then this is the book for you!
As you will learn about what psychology is, the five approaches to human behaviour and you'll have an introduction to nine subfields of psychology.
By the end of this book, you will have a great introduction to psychology because you'll be able to explain what psychology involves and you'll have the knowledge of the other subareas of psychology to look at your favourite topic in more depth.
If you like this book, then you will love my other books. Like: Sociocultural Psychology 2nd Psychology and Abnormal Psychology.
Connor Whiteley
Hello, I'm Connor Whiteley, I am an 18-year-old who loves to write creatively, and I wrote my Brownsea trilogy when I was 14 years old after I went to Brownsea Island on a scout camp. At the camp, I started to think about how all the broken tiles and pottery got there and somehow a trilogy got created.Moreover, I love writing fantasy and sci-fi novels because you’re only limited by your imagination.In addition, I'm was an Explorer Scout and I love camping, sailing and other outdoor activities as well as cooking.Furthermore, I do quite a bit of charity work as well. For example: in early 2018 I was a part of a youth panel which was involved in creating a report with research to try and get government funding for organised youth groups and through this panel. I was invited to Prince Charles’ 70th birthday party and how some of us got in the royal photograph.Finally, I am going to university and I hope to get my doctorate in clinical psychology in a few years.
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What is Psychology? - Connor Whiteley
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Thank you to all my wonderful readers as without your support I couldn’t do what I love.
INTRODUCTION: WHY WRITE THIS BOOK?
PERSONALLY, I LOVE psychology.
I love what is it, the science and the behaviour that psychology studies so after my Sixth Form or High School years. I decided to follow my passion for psychology as well as human behaviour further than this introductory education.
Resulting in me currently studying the very long degree of ‘Psychology with Clinical Psychology with a Placement Year’ at a university in the South East of England in the United Kingdom.
In other words, I study human behaviour at an English university with a few units specialising in mental disorders.
However, education isn’t enough for me so I’m an author and after writing over 20 books, ten of these books being psychology books. I have decided to write this psychology book as an ultimate introduction to psychology.
As a result, whilst this book will NOT be an ultimate guide to the ins and outs of psychology because that’s what the rest of my psychology books focus on.
This book will explain what psychology is and the many interesting areas of psychology as well as it will discuss sample topics from these areas using sample chapters from my other psychology books.
Who is this book for?
This book is for anyone who wants to learn about psychology as well as this book is for people who want to know about psychology but have no idea where to start.
I promise you this is the perfect starting point on your psychological journey of discovery...
CHAPTER 1: WHAT IS PSYCHOLOGY, WHAT IS PSYCHOLOGISTS DO AND WHY IS PSYCHOLOGY RELEVANT?
PERSONALLY, I THINK this is an odd question because when you answer this question to people they tend to think that psychology is only profiling on crime programs.
However, I hate to tell you that this is not the case, and to give you a bit of interesting context psychology comes from two Greek words. ‘Psyche’ meaning mind and soul as well as ‘logos’ meaning study.
Therefore, psychology literally means the study of the mind.
Nonetheless, as psychology has evolved over the past century and a bit the definition of psychology has changed.
For example, the current definition of psychology according to the Oxford English Dictionary is: ‘The Scientific study of the human mind and its function, especially in a given content’
In addition, I would love to stress that psychology is a science as everything in psychology is supported by data and findings from experiments and studies.
Whilst, I will fully admit that some psychology studies are better than other studies. All psychological facts are supported by data and subjected to psychological peers that review the study to see if the findings are good.
What do psychologists do?
Everyone has their own reasons for reading about psychology. Like: I read psychology books because I’m interested, I’m doing a degree in psychology and I wish to become a Clinical Psychologist one day.
Even if you do not want to study psychology it’s fine, you can keep reading, and psychology is good to know in any situation.
Although, if you do complete a degree and the other requirements then you can become a:
Clinical Psychologist
Educational Psychologist
Forensic Psychologist
Sport Psychologist
Social Psychologist
Occupational Psychology
And many more...
How does Psychology Apply to you?
Throughout this book and this series, we will be looking at psychological facts and research as well as psychology can affect us in a great number of ways. Such as:
What factors increase the chance of us committing a crime?
What causes relationships to form?
How do hormones impact our behaviour?
In addition, there is a lot of psychological research out there in the world, meaning that you might want to go and investigate certain topics in more depth...
CHAPTER 2: APPROACHES IN PSYCHOLOGY
IN PSYCHOLOGY, THERE are many different approaches that people can take in order to investigate behaviour effectively.
The Biological Approach:
This approach to psychology and behaviour proposes that all behaviour is a result of biological processes.
Furthermore, this approach can be broken down into the following: The physiological approach proposed that all behaviour is linked to internal body parts. Like the brain and neurochemicals.
The nativist approach is a belief that all behaviour is inherited and passed from one generation to the next through our genes
Finally, the medical model proposes the idea that you can treat mental disorders like you would a physical disease due to the belief that every problem has a physical cause. For example, depression is caused by brain damage. (This is a fictional fact used to the demonstrate the medical model)
Biological Assumptions:
Additionally the biological approach has three basic assumptions that form the foundations for this approach to behaviour.
Evolutionary inference- this is applying evolutionary theory by Charles Darwin in 1800s to psychology as psychologists use evolutionary Theory to explain how behaviour has changed over millions of years changed over time. Proposing that the human brain has