PSYCHOLOGY

With the famous saying from Robertson Davies “The eyes sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend”. This is also a psychological behaviour.

Lets look into it know what’s psychology?

· Psychology is a branch of science that deals with mental processes and behavior.

· It is the systematic study of human and animal behavior, mind and thought.

· To pursue the career of a psychologist, one should have a genuine desire to help other human beings.

· Psychology is mainly concerned with the way the mind works.

· Psychologists study the processes, motives, reactions, feelings and nature of the human mind.

· Their treatment is based on changing the behavioral patterns of the patients without medication.

· They do counseling and help people by bringing about changes in their thought process, thus improving their quality of life.

· Psychologists need not have a medical degree.

· But they have to study several years to specialize in various aspects of Psychology.

· One can pursue Psychology at the plus two level, graduate, post graduate, doctorate.

· There are specializations in many fields of Psychology such as

1. Social psychology

2. Child psychology

3. Occupational psychology

4. Clinical psychology

5. Educational psychology

6. Experimental psychology , etc

· Psychologists teach, practice and do research or work in one of the many branches of applied psychology.

· They apply their knowledge and techniques to a wide range of endeavors, including human services, management, education, law and sports.

· Study of psychology includes a diverse range of activities such as the processes of

1. Thinking

2. Learning.

3. Perceiving

4. Remembering

5. Forgetting

And also

1. Physiology of nervous system

2. Development of children

3. Social relationships and

4. Their effect on personality development of children.

5. Mental disorders

Applications of psychology to the study of:

1. Society

2. Industry

3. Education etc.,

4. Techniques of experimenting and

5. Testing and

6. Statistics

*There is a wide variety of topics in the professional study of psychology and some overlapping occurs between the different specialized branches.

*Good at science, math , critical reading and writing will help you to have good carrer growth in psychology.