What are the historical roots of psychology?

Answer 1

The word psychology is Greek and contains two Greek roots: Psyche meaning "mind" and logos meaning "study." Psychology (the study of the mind and behaviors) began around 500 to 300 B.C.

It all started with 3 main Greek philosophers: Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle. Socrates taught Plato and Plato later taught Aristotle. Socrates was famous for his belief "know thyself" with a strong belief in self-examination. Just like Plato's teacher, he believed knowledge should come from thought and reason, and not to gain knowledge from the senses because they can deceive us (visual illusions).

Aristotle, on they other hand, was a naturalist. He believed that knowledge should be gained from our experiences of the world around us, not just thought and reason. He believed that with careful observation of our sense we can gain knowledge.

Answer 2

The word "psychology" was formed from two Greek words. The first,

psyche, originally meant "breath" but later acquired the additional meaning

"soul", because breathing was thought to indicate that the soul had not yet

left the body, and later still (during the seventeenth century) broadened further in meaning to include "mind" . The equivalent Latin word anima, from

which the English words "animal" and "animate" are derived, also started

life meaning "breath" and later evolved the additional meaning "mind". The

second Greek word, logos, originally meant "word" and later expanded in

meaning to include "discourse" and eventually "science". According to its

Greek roots, therefore, psychology is literally the science of the mind.

Answer 3

The word personality is derived from the medieval Latin word personalitas, from Latin personalis, meaning 'of a person.'
The word personality comes from the Greek word persona. This word mean mask.

Answer 4

Psychology IS a root word. It might be tempting to think that the root word is psyche but that would not be quite correct - they are related words. If psyche was the root word, then the word would be "psycheology".

You cannot strip off any part of it to form a word - although the psycho- portion can be a prefix such as psychoanalyze.

The -ology portion occurs in words referencing study of something.

Answer 5

Psychology originally originated back in ancient times with the Greeks. These people would study human interactions and certain human behaviors.

Answer 6

Latin, psychology is based off of the Latin word psychologia.

Answer 7

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