Robert S. Feldman is the author of „Understanding psychology“ where talks about subfields of psychology, working at psychology, roots of psychology, today’s perspectives, psychology’s key issues and controversies.
The author explains that psychology is the scientific study of behavior and mental processes, encompassing people’s biological activities, feelings, perceptions, memory and thoughts. Moreover, in 1st module the author describes psychology’s subfields, such as behavioral neuroscience, experimental, cognitive, health psychology etc. after graduation psychologists are employed in a variety of settings, so they can work in different social services and other fields, like business filed.
Robert S. Feldman claims that the formal beginning of psychology was in 1879 when in Leipcig, Germany, Wilhelm Wundt established the first experimental laboratory. Then pioneers embraced of broad perspectives and nowadays psychologists seek to reach the same aim. Today there are 5 major perspectives in the field of psychology, which takes different understanding of behavior.
The professor states that no matter what area a psychologist specializes in, specialist relies on one of 5 major perspectives. Furthermore in psychology is very important understanding of how culture, ethnicity and race influence behavior. A third point author mention in module 3 is that psychology becomes more and more popular and scientist believes that an understanding of human behavior will be the proudest science.
To sum up, it is very important to fathom in all author’s mentioned points, to understand what psychology is, what are psychology’s methods and goals, as psychology is very complicated science and has a vide range of uses.
The author explains that psychology is the scientific study of behavior and mental processes, encompassing people’s biological activities, feelings, perceptions, memory and thoughts. Moreover, in 1st module the author describes psychology’s subfields, such as behavioral neuroscience, experimental, cognitive, health psychology etc. after graduation psychologists are employed in a variety of settings, so they can work in different social services and other fields, like business filed.
Robert S. Feldman claims that the formal beginning of psychology was in 1879 when in Leipcig, Germany, Wilhelm Wundt established the first experimental laboratory. Then pioneers embraced of broad perspectives and nowadays psychologists seek to reach the same aim. Today there are 5 major perspectives in the field of psychology, which takes different understanding of behavior.
The professor states that no matter what area a psychologist specializes in, specialist relies on one of 5 major perspectives. Furthermore in psychology is very important understanding of how culture, ethnicity and race influence behavior. A third point author mention in module 3 is that psychology becomes more and more popular and scientist believes that an understanding of human behavior will be the proudest science.
To sum up, it is very important to fathom in all author’s mentioned points, to understand what psychology is, what are psychology’s methods and goals, as psychology is very complicated science and has a vide range of uses.
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