Psychology studies the acivities of individual. The science of human behaviours is actually a group of sciences. On one side we find psychology investigating the organs and cells that do the work of the organism, and the other side we see the social sciences studying nations and groups of mankind. Three is room for a middle science that shall focus its attention on the individual. That middle science is psychology. Psychology studies the individual’s activities through-out his span of life, from the beginning before birth, up through the end of life. During this life history, the Man remains the same individual, although his behavior shows continuity along with many changes psychology.
Compares children and adults , the normal and the abnormal and the human and the animal. It is interested in the differences between one individual and another, and still more interested, if possible, in the general laws of activity including event of very different individuals-laws, for example, of growth, learning, thinking and emotion. Psyhology can be defined as the science of the individual’s activities.
The word “ activity” is used here in a broad sense. It includes not only motor activities like walking and speaking but also cognitive (knowledge-getting) activities like seeing, hering, remembering, thinking, and other emotional activities like laughing and crying, or feeling happy or sad. These last may seem passive, because they are activities, for they depend on the life of the organism. Any manifestation of life can be called an activity. No matter how passive an individual may seem to himself in watching a game completely in active is to be dead.
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