Psycology Essay

Sheik Black

Hour 4

April, 16, 2014

English 11

Phycology is something that people want to understand but choose to ignore. This is why Psychology is one of the most interesting fields in the 21 centaury, because you can understand an individual at levels you did not even know existed. One of the other wonderful benefits of understanding basic psychology is that you can see in social situations why some people act the way they do and maybe change the attitude of the conversation to make the person feel more included and comfortable. The history of psychology is where we can see the fundamentals of the techniques we use in modern psychology. One of the most interesting thoughts of past psychological was that the blood, digestion and reproductive system were the cause of all mental disorders (1). One of the most interesting

The treatment involved sessions of mental and physical rest during six to eight weeks at a time, during the time they did not have a lot of freedom. The conditions of the treatment were that you would isolate yourself from friends and family and were fed a milk based diet and sometimes used electroshock therapy to keep muscle tone intact. The idea of the Isolation came from the thought that the home life of the patient was toxic and was partially causing the sickness. The diet idea was to keep the weight and blood levels of the patient at a healthy and normal level. Experimental psychology is a very important part of the background of psychology. There are 3 general thought process of how psychologically is examined, structuralism, functionalism and gestalt. The first thing to understand about the “branches” of psychology would be that they all came from Germany, for example it is a lot like