What are the objectives of pschology?

Answer 1

Psychology seeks to describe, explain, predict, and control the events it studies.

The five basic goals of psychology aredescribe, explain, predict, control, and improve.

the four main goals of psychology

1. observe and describe.

2. understand and explain

3. predict

4. influence and control. the four main goals of psychology

1. observe and describe.

2. understand and explain

3. predict

4. influence and control.
The goal of psychology is to describe, explain, predict and treat a behavior.

Answer 2

The Five goals of Psychology are:

1. DESCRIBING behavior

2. EXPLAINING why those processes occur

3. PREDICTING future events

4. CONTROLLING/CHANGING behaviors and mental processes

5. OBSERVE so they know what problem their dealing with

Psychologists have four things they do:

describe, explain, predict, and influence behavior

Quotation from "Mastering the world of Psychology"

Chapter 1 page(s) 5- 6

• Description: Identifying and classifying behaviors and mental processes as accurately as possible.
• Explanation: Proposing reasons for behaviors and mental processes.
• Prediction: Offering educated guesses (or hypotheses) about how a given condition or set of conditions will affect behaviors and mental processes.
• Influence: Using the results of research to solve practical problems that involve behavior and mental processes.

Answer 3

The word 'psychology' is contrived of the words 'psyche' (ψυχή) and 'logos' (λόγος). Psyche is translated as 'soul' or 'mind' and Logos as 'word' or 'reason', which makes psychology the reasoning or science of the mind.

The objective of psychology is just that: to gather information about the human mind and behavior.

Answer 4

The five goals of psychology are:

1. Describe - The first goal is to observe behavior and describe, often in minute detail, what was observed as objectively as possible

2. Explain - While descriptions come from observable data, psychologists must go beyond what is obvious and explain their observations. In other words, why did the subject do what he or she did?

3. Predict - Once we know what happens, and why it happens, we can begin to speculate what will happen in the future. There's an old saying, which very often holds true: "the best predictor of future behavior is past behavior."

4. Control - Once we know what happens, why it happens and what is likely to happen in the future, we can excerpt control over it. In other words, if we know you choose abusive partners because your father was abusive, we can assume you will choose another abusive partner, and can therefore intervene to change this negative behavior.

5. Improve - Not only do psychologists attempt to control behavior, they want to do so in a positive manner, they want to improve a person's life, not make it worse. This is not always the case, but it should always be the intention.

Answer 5

Objectives

* Discuss the contemporary perspectives used by psychologists to understand behavior and mental processes.

* Identify the major subfields and career opportunities that comprise psychology.

* Distinguish between the different research strategies used by psychologists to explore behavior and mental processes.

* Distinguish and employ the basic concepts of statistical data.

* Analyze the ethical issues in psychological research.

* Discuss the development of psychology as an empirical science

* To gather information about the human mind and behavior

Answer 6

1- understand the mind

2- describe behaviour

4- predict

5- influnce

Answer 7

psychology goals are to explain behavior. predict behavior, control behavior

Answer 8

To control definition

Answer 9

What are the five of psychology