Psychology Reflection Paper

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Psychology is the scientific study on how people think, behave and feel. It is the study of the human mind, and its functions affecting behavior in a certain condition. To me, the word psychology means the study of people’s mind and how it works. Psychology often includes emotional characteristics of people as well. The characteristics help determine why people behave and respond they way they do. It has only been three weeks into the class and my perspective, and thought of psychology has already dramatically changed. On the first day of class my professor Mrs. Cogorno asked us “What is Psychology,” this was the first chapter we read. When she asked this, the only thing I could think of was, it is the study of the mind and how it works. After reading some more chapters. I realize psychology is so much more. My initial thought of psychology only covered the cognitive psychology branch, which is only one of many branches. There are more than twenty branches of psychology that I was not aware of until I started reading the textbook “Psychology an Exploration Third Edition.” There are seven psychological perspective. No single perspective is used alone to explain all human behavior and …show more content…

As in needed I mean, we need psychologist and psychiatrist to continue learning the study of abnormal psychology. Approximately 1 in 5 adults in just the U.S. experience mental illness in a given year. Thus meaning 43.8 million, or 18.5% are affected, according to the National Alliance on Mental Illness Foundation. Those numbers are only for the United States, that’s not including the rest of the world. Around 450 million people currently suffer from a mental illness, according to the World Health Organization. If people were unaware of the field of abnormal psychology, those people would be alone in trying to deal with that illness. I believe that abnormal psychology is one of the most important psychological

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