Nature and Scope of Psychology

Psychology is the scientific study of mental functions and behaviors. It’s an approach to understand people and their thoughts and their behaviors. Having its roots in philosophy since its founding, it has emerged as an academic and scientific discipline which offers various benefits to the humankind. Both, in terms of the services that are offered and the remuneration that is received, the study of psychology aids psychologists greatly while helping them work in several area of the society and dealing with the problems. This article discusses various areas of psychology. Hope it will be of some help for you in your studies.

Psychology signifies the scientific study of the human mind and mental states, and of human and animal behavior. It seeks to predict and control the behaviors while finding out the causes through observation and reasoning process. The sole purpose of psychology is to know and understand why people behave the way they do. The domain of psychology has, in course of time, emerged as one of the important disciplines while widening its scopes and being applicable to different fields of human endeavors, such as, employment, industries, education, personality development and being one of its popular branches, to the treatment of mental and emotional problems. A few of its branches may be outlined briefly in this.

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K. A. Fareed (Fareed Siddiqui)
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