Hey! You are studying Psychology right? So tell me what is going on in my mind right now?
This is the question that a number of people ask a Psychology student every day. This stereotype has made this subject more interesting as people are keen to learn about thoughts going on in another individual’s mind.
However, Psychology is not a face reading skill. It comprises of extensive knowledge about human and animals.
What is Psychology?
To initiate with, the word Psychology was originated from two Greek words that are ‘PSYCHE’meaning ‘MIND’ and ‘LOGOS’ meaning ‘THE STUDY OF’. Hence, Psychology as a whole came out to be ‘The Study of Mind’. It is an academic discipline which involves the scientific study of cognitive functions that lead to actions and emotions. The subject aims to understand the HOW’s and WHY’s about the commencement of particular actions, thoughts and behaviors that cause certain emotions within an individual. Therefore, it is a science of overt and covert behavior as well.
Psychology has five main objectives:
- TO DESCRIBE:Psychologists observe an individual’s behavior in certain situations. Further, the observed actions are described as objectively as possible.
- Explain:Explanation of the performed action refers to finding the reasons behind that action.
- Predict:Predictions of an individual’s behavior for future leads to the awareness of its consequences.
- Control: Once, the predictions are made about the expected responses, appropriate measures are learnt to control them.
- Improve:Psychology not merely controls a certain behavior but it intends to improvean individual’s life as a whole. Improvement in all the cases is an ultimate goal of a Psychologist.
These goals altogether describe how Psychology works.
WHY STUDY PSYCHOLOGY?
If you are interested in learning about how an individual ‘GO THROUGH AND GROW THROUGH LIFE’ Psychology is the best medium for you. Bad behavior is criticized by all. However, Psychology endows the qualities to realize and understand the thoughts behind a respective behavior. It inculcates a sense of understanding and empathy for others. Moreover, the fact that makes the subject more interesting is, it studies self and the consciousness of one’s physicality as well as one’s inner character and emotional life.
Apart from this there are several career prospects of Psychology.
The psychology course has proven incredibly popular because of the sheer range of options that it opens up to graduates. Once completing graduation in Psychology, you can complete further post-graduate training in areas such as: Organizational Psychology, Educational Psychology, Forensic Psychology, Clinical Psychology, Counseling Psychology and more.Varieties of career opportunities are provided to the students studying Psychology.
To recapitulate, psychology helps an individual to grow from a blooming bud, to a beautiful flower by learning about self and others. It is not merely a subject of science but a wide range of knowledge about human philosophy, life changes, difficulties that required solutions, emotions that break an individual and motivations that provide the strength and the breakthroughs.
Therefore, Psychology alters one’s perspectives about life.
Article by,
Simran Ranu.
