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An open access textbook designed primarily for use by first and second year undergraduate students of British Psychological Society accredited Psychology degree courses in the UK.
Psychology is a science dedicated to the study of behavior and mental processes. In this chapter you are introduced to the history of this science, a variety of contemporary perspectives in psychology, the positive psychology movement, and an overview of psychology-related careers.
Psychological distance is defined within the Construal-Level Theory (CLT), which was developed by Trope and Liberman . Their first approach referred only to the temporal distance and assumed that we judge a more distant event in time by few abstract characteristics (high-level construal).
Geographical psychology examines links between location and psychological phenomena, such as how and why personality traits, life satisfaction, and social behavior differ from place to place—or...
Principles of Biological Psychology Everything psychological is simultaneously biological. The nervous system is complexity built from simplicity. The brain is both specialized and integrated. The nervous system is “plastic” (change) especially at early ages of development.
1. Explain what psychology is and isn’t. 2. Describe the history and evolution of the field of psycholo-gy and the various theoretical approaches to the study of be-haviour. 3. Use effective evidence-based study strategies based on cur - rent psychological research. 4. Be able to engage effectively and collaboratively with others
A psychologist follows a systematic scientific procedure which has sound theoretical base in order to explain and interpret the phenomenon. Psychology has various methodological ways or approaches to understand and explain psychological phenomena. We will be studying about some of these approaches.
