Introduction - The term psychology comes from two Greek words: psyche, which means "soul," and logos, "the study of." Psychology is the scientific study of behavior and the mind.
Psychology investigates an enormous range of phenomena: learning and memory, sensation and perception, motivation and emotion, thinking and language, personality and social behavior, intelligence, infancy and child development, mental illness, and a lot more. Psychologists examine these topics from many different perspectives. Some conduct detailed biological studies of the brain, others explore how we process in…
