Importance Of Studying Psychology

Most of us should be asking to themselves why I would have to study psychology and what I will learn from it. Psychology is the scientific study of overt behavior and mental process (covert process). Wilhelm Wundt was a German physician, physiologist, philosopher, and professor known as the father of psychology. The study of psychology is beneficial for humanity. In psychology are goals which are description, understand the causes of a behavior, predict when it will occur, and control the conditions that affect it. The first step is to understand how the mind works and why people act the way they do. The importance of psychology is to learn about how people develop, to improve interpersonal communication and have better critical thinking.

When we study psychology we understand how people mind work. It will helps people communicate better in the work place. Also understanding more about yourself will help to have high self- confident. This will help in situation when we deal with other people from other parts of the world. But before we get to know ourselves and other people mind is important to understand how the minds works. As a human we have billions of neurons working together inside our head. Is influential to know that as a human we have the central nervous system and the peripheral nervous system. The central nervous system is the brain and the spinal cord. The peripheral nervous system is a network of nerve that carries information from the central nervous system to the rest of the body. In the other hand when we communicate with other people we ask question to extend own knowledge and

Critical thinking is a type of reflection involving the support of beliefs through scientific explanation and observation. Thinking critical is not about our emotion or memorization is based in logical reasoning. In the future critical thinking will help us when conducting a research. Also to complete a study successfully. When we think critically we are investigating the problem, asking question, present new answer, and discover new information. One of the form of critical thinking is the scientific method. One of the six element that this scientific method has is by observing. Second element is defining a problem. Third, is suggesting a hypothesis, which is a test of theory. Four element is gathering evidence and testing the hypothesis. After testing the hypothesis comes building a theory. The six element is publishing the results. Most of what we think, feel, and do is influenced by the social and cultural worlds in which we