Order Number |
754393092 |
Type of Project |
ESSAY |
Writer Level |
PHD VERIFIED |
Format |
APA |
Academic Sources |
10 |
Page Count |
3-12 PAGES |
Good luck to everyone!
References
Cherry, K. (2019, March 9). The Origins of Psychology: History Through the Years. Retrieved from https://www.verywellmind.com/a-brief-history-of-psychology-through-the-years-2795245.
Part #3:
Hello Professor and classmates,
Part 1.
My name is Michael Logan and I live in the very northwest corner of Missouri. I was born and raised here but left to explore the world, courtesy of the US Army. After finishing 9 years, I decided I had my fill of deployments, so I moved back to KC and became a civilian police officer. Tragedy has its way of creating new paths for people. I lost my son in Oct of 2014 and my father shortly afterwards. I decided to move back to where I originated from to find peace and heal. I decided to finish my schooling as I had begun the pursuit of a degree way back in the 90’s, (yes, I am a wee older).
Through therapy sessions, counselors, and even psychiatric help, I found no relief from my loss. It was then that I decided to go back to school and finish my psychology degree. I felt that if others couldn’t “fix me”, I’d fix myself. I have 2 more classes after these 8 weeks, and I will be graduating (in June), with a bachelor’s degree in Psychology. I am still a cop and I work as a detective for a sheriff’s office in Missouri. I am also a TFO (task force officer), attached to the Homeland Security here in Missouri. I am married and have three stepchildren and a 23-year-old daughter and of course, my deceased son “Fighter”. My wife and I had “my rainbow baby”, on February 3rd of this year. Life couldn’t be better.
The three learning goals that I have for this class is to learn more on how psychology developed into a scientific inquiry. I just finished the class, Perceptions. and realized that psychology has branched beyond Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs or BF Skinners Operant Conditioning. Psychology is so much more than placing an emotion or attempting to identify why a person reacts to the environment they exist in.
I want to know how things like perception, personality, and behaviors, were all first questioned and why? With that, how did theorist parallel this with our cognitive development? This would lead me to my second goal as I am curious how early philosophers were able to gather information that led to the infancy of psychology. My third goal is to find what the golden age per say, was, involving the common theories that we utilized today.
Part 2.
The history of psychology is rooted in the early exploration of why men and women act and behave a certain way. In my line of work, we look for the “how’s,”, “who’s” “what’s” and the “when”. We try to look for the “why’s” a person does something which in this case would usually be criminal in nature. Early philosophers left a world of myth and magic towards a new world of science.
They too, were inquisitive in finding out the why’s of people’s behaviors. They reasoned that the body and mind influenced each other. As theorist in psychology grasp one area, they can build upon that area and perhaps answer new, never thought of questions about the mind. This is important in that society influences our minds and is ever changing. With this, newer, more innovative theory on the mind will need to come into fruition. “In work psychology, we aim to study human behavior in organizations and apply the knowledge we gain for beneficial ends
Psychology is both a science and as well something that is not scientific in nature. In the act of science, the brain responds to a stimulus that our senses detect. Scientist can explain the principles of the stimulus and how they interact within our brains.
The science of psychology can utilize a hypothesis to form a theory and conduct research using the scientific method. As each step is thoroughly researched, a conclusion can be generated to find either merit in the theory or find that the hypothesis is incorrect. A non-scientific approach to psychology would be quantifying emotion. What is happiness?? Why does a certain song make a person sad?
The five basic tenets of the scientific method are terminology, quantifiability, highly controlled experimental conditions, reproducibility and, finally, predictability and testability. (Casadevall, A., & Fang, F. C. 2016). Psychology is often internal and cannot be tested. Emotion, like pain, is subjective. Therefore, dealing with the human behaviors and perceptions are all theory based. No two person are the same therefore no two minds are alike.