INTRO TO PSYCHOLOGY

1. Introduction

INTRODUCTION TO PSYCHOLOGY

Things you are going to learn in this unit:

What is psychology?
the place of psychology among other sciences
What psychology is not.
Methods of psychological study

What is psychology anyways? Psychology can be defined as the scientific study of the mind and of behaviour.

What do Psychologists and Psychiatrists do? Look here to find out.

We will become familiar with several prominent psychologists during this course. There have been many others who have contributed to the field of psychology. Many of these psychologists and therapists shared ideas, and built apon those ideas to develop theories that have influenced psychology today. Click on the photo below to open the annotations to find out who is who.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Psychoanalytical_Association