Before I started this class I had a very plain idea about what Psychology is. The very simple: Psych- equals mind and -ology equals the study of. My first understanding of Psychology was that it was only the study of the mind. When I thought about what a Psychologist did, I imagined a man or women sitting in a chair with a client lying down, asking them how they felt. Now that I have read the first chapter, I'm actually shocked about the extreme content involved in Psychology. Not only does Psychology deal with the mind it deals with everything from your emotions to why you behave or act the way you do. Psychology vastly involves everything from a biology stand point to a visual recording and experimental stand point. I never thought there were so many subfields and categories associated with the study of the mind.
Psychology, I now know, affects my life a lot. It's in accordance with everything I do, say, or think. It tells me everything from how data is collected and how useful the data is. How easily I can be pushed into believing something completely false. Why I remember certain things and forget others. Psychology as a whole is my life completely, if you think about it, what ever you do, think, say, act, or anything you do using your mind, is Psychology. It's very essence deals with the mind and the mind controls your entire body, which controls what you do with your life. It affects my life because it tells me why and how things are.
I thought the experimental use of psychological science was very interesting. How doctors and researchers can test a product by using the double-blind procedure. Allowing there to be an expiremental group and control group and each giving them the product. However, the experimental group recieves the treatment, where as the control group recieves a false or fake treatment. I found it interesting that when doing this kind of experiment the control group can see results from not even taking a medication, but seeing results just from the pyschological standing that they think they are receiving a treatment. Which is called the placebo effect, which I find very intriguing.
I also found it very interesting that they compare everyone and everything together. From animals and humans to the different races and genders. It shows how no matter how different you may seem from either animals or act different than other races, our minds still think and operate the same. The study of the everything was quite interesting how they are all linked. Psychology in way brings everything together.
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