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What is Psychology?

Madhya Pradesh Board · Class 11 · Psychology

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1. Meaning and Nature of Psychology

  • Psychology comes from two Greek words: psyche meaning soul and logos meaning science or study of a subject.
  • Psychology is formally defined as a science which studies mental processes, experiences and behaviour in different contexts.
  • Psychology is generally categorised as a social science, but it is also offered as a subject in the faculty of science.
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2. Mind, Behaviour, and Experience

  • Mind is not identical to brain activity, though both are interdependent.
  • Unlike the brain, the mind does not have a physical structure or a location.
  • Mental activities and neural activities are mutually overlapping but not the same.
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3. Popular Notions and Scientific Psychology

  • Common sense explanations of behaviour are based on hindsight and explain very little.
  • Popular sayings can be used to explain behaviour after it happens, but they do not give scientific prediction.
  • Psychology looks for patterns of behaviour that can be predicted.
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4. Evolution of Modern Psychology

  • Modern psychology is traced to 1879, when the first experimental laboratory was established in Leipzig, Germany by Wilhelm Wundt.
  • Wundt studied conscious experience and analysed the structure of the mind through introspection.
  • His approach was called structuralism.

Key Concepts

Central concept: Psychology

Meaning and definitionMind and behaviourPsychology as a disciplinePsychology as natural sciencePsychology as social sciencePopular notions about psychologyEvolution of psychologyStructuralism

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