Psychology is the study of human behavior and the human mind from a scientific perspective. This course covers several schools of thought, (or several different techniques as to explaining why we do the things we do and think the things we think), including these 6 major perspectives: biological, behavioral, cognitive, sociological, psychoanalytical, and humanistic. These perspectives do not necessarily oppose each other, and they may not be mutually exclusive. They simply offer different explanations for the same behavior (meaning, they are all correct).
For example, let’s say your friend Anna is an outgoing person. If you wanted to explain this behavior from a biological perspective, you might say that being outgoing is in Anna’s genes (she was born that way). If you wanted to explain Anna’s personality through a behavioral perspective, you might say that Anna learned to become an outgoing person through her experiences.
This is what psychology is! Explaining behavior and the mind through many different perspectives.
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