Psycology 101. The Beggining

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To understand the basics of psychology you must first understand a short history of it and it's development....

Psychology part. I

.....psychology is the scientific study of behavior and mental process
..........Behavior can be either covert of overt
...............covert behavior is internal private behavior
...............overt behavior is the external viewable behavior

People constantly make unsupported and unprovable observations such as but not limited to....
.........."Man cannot fly"[pre-kitty hawk]
.........."There is a God"
.........."There is no God"
Such observations should be avoided. Rather empirical evidence is preferred.
..........Empirical evidence is that which can be supported by observation, measurement, and experience.
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Reply #1 from JoeUser Forums Top
i'm not finished reading ur article on psychology, but upto here its interresting and its one of the few articles about psychology that i can understand, givin that my age is 14. But theres just one problem with it; ''psychology'' isn't written ''psycology''. Its written with a ''h'' after the ''c''. lol, anyways, bye.
Reply #2 from JoeUser Forums Top

Dude... please run a spell checker on your article before you post it.  There are numerous typos (grammatical and spelling) that should be corrected if you're going to 'educate' us about psychology.  You also spelled many of the psychologist's names wrong like "Titchener", Anna Freud (Sigmund's daughter), and Karen Horney (you spelled it Korean Hornay).


It's great that you want to educate the world about this field of study, but you're not doing us any favors by spelling important people's names wrong or failing to spell check. 

Galactic Civilizations IV
Reply #3 from JoeUser Forums Top
lol. I might have done that favor had I actually though anyone might read it [these are actually my notes]. I'm quite surprised at this point at it's delayed interest. As for typos I'm quite notorious at them when typing on the go. Since I'm always typing on the go, one can posit I always have typos or grammatical errors.

If anyone should care I may post some of my notes on more complex subjects. I study neurobiology and philosophy, though the second is not really psychology, it has been stated that all matters of human history are footnotes of Plato. A little bit of an exaggeration, and I think Socrates would have been more proper to mention, the point being that psychology is the daughter of philosophy. Like learning Latin to learn a romance language. I'll spell check the article for you though and maybe post another one on the fundamentals of neuron science. I should mention to avoid any reiteration in my articles, I tend to simplify things for my own purposes, as well as compare then to computers. I.E. I might say STM[short term memory] is like a computer bit, because you can in general only store so much[on average 6-7 'bits']. Though if you clump things you can store the same amount of clumps as bits. In a computer you can store 1 number per byte, or you can store it's max. Still is one byte. An example of this is.

go away from the computer for a few seconds and list the numbers on a piece of paper, then come back and see how you did.

1 5 A 7 0.

Keep on trying until you reach a number you can't handle, on rare occasions some people can go up fairly high. my brother who is quite skilled at STM can repeat a 15-number sequence backwards.

now.. try remembering...

NY 11 47 32 JA.

Of course one must remember with a lot of psychology and sciences most things are theories. We have yet not proven the above, yet it is a common train of though. 5-HT[Serotonin] as far as my knowledge goes, is not proven to make depressed people feel better. I would guess that conclusion was drawn from the experiments on the Aplysia and other animals? Most of these things are our 'best guess' on how things should work if all conditions are perfect.

I'm a little busy right now but I'll get up another article in some time.

note:A.
I wonder why so many famous poeple have such sexual names. Horney is an example and so is Prevert. Not to imply that is the actual meaning, just a coincidence worth a laugh.

note:B.
You should learn other things if you wish to study or even read psycology. Some ones worth noting are Ca++, K+, and Na+ .
A good way to remember these things is to read the opposite. So when you read K+ in your mind say potassium, rather then K+, the same with Calcium[Ca++] and Na+[Sodium]. Another powerful tool is to imagine the other word in bold over the word you are reading. This not only works for elements but learning new words, such as synonyms. Or peoples names[imagining them on the foreheads of others.]. This ties into one of the theories of LTR[ long term memory] which is an intresting, but also something I will explain later as I need to finish Phaedo.
Reply #4 from JoeUser Forums Top
I'm happy of your article and I expect more about psycology but Itried to reed not this but about "the contribution of RENE DESKARTS to psycology"
Reply #5 from JoeUser Forums Top
Psych is the most pseudo-scientific rubbish ever invented. It's an excuse for people to appropriate and pretend to an objective scientific basis to their pre-existing prejudices and beliefs. It's an excuse to marginalise people who are different from the dominant culture. Some good has come of it, but this is only because well-meaning people have bought into the rubbish and used psych as a way to justify their prejudices (which happend to be nice prejudices).

I could justify that rant, but I'd be here all night.