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History and Contribution of Modern Psychology

   

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PSYCHOLOGY

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
History of modern psychology...............................................................................................3
Empirical evidences in psychology .......................................................................................5
Contribution to psychology....................................................................................................5
CONCLUSION ...............................................................................................................................6
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................7

INTRODUCTION
Psychology is the study or process of understanding the behaviour and mental procedure
of individuals. It is about analysing the mind of person who don't want to share but getting hart
from that internally. So in the scientific term it use to treat the patient who face the mental stress,
because of some horrible and unwanted situation happened with the them. Through
psychological study any one can learn that how to understand the mind of people without any
conversation (Cangelosi and Schlesinger 2018). psychiatrist use their psychological skill to find
out the problem of patient by just seeing and taking to the patient. Psychological also involves
the study of strategy's, that to make patient speak, that how we can convince the person so that
they can tell abut their problem. In this report we are going to study the, first experiments in
modern Psychology and how William James and Ivan Pavlov contributed theoretically to the
field.
History of modern psychology
It is the Morden science but it was consider by the philosopher from the time of 428 BEC
till 1970. Their was the number of psychologist who gives the different philosophy of
psychology, but Wilhelm Maximilian Wundt is consider as the father of psychology, because he
is the first person who opened one of the first psychological laboratories and aid to the
development of the field structuralism. Wilhelm Wundt (1832-1920) was the first person who
referred as psychologist. Psychology is the scientific examination of mind and behaviour.
Psychologist work in the laboratories, health care office (D’Oca and et. al., 2017). Where their
responsibility is to treat the psychological problems of patient by analysing their behaviour. For
systematic analysis of individuals behaviour it is necessary to use scientific method. Philosopher
were the first psychologists, but the method and techniques were changed because of the
continues development of scientific approaches by upcoming psychologist.
There are various method of thinking about the behaviour of human. The major of
psychologist make a curiosity about how the different class of person think, feel and behave.
Many of researcher focus on the specific brain set which include the behaviour of many pattern
in various situation. Their are biological aspect as well as other approches which took out the
various behaviour in single person (Dunning and et. al., 2016). In past years, psychology is
dominated as success theory for many researcher which implies to know about the different
thoughts and signs. The mode is different in psychological studies are based on structuralism,

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