Annotated Bibliography

Annotated Bibliography

Psychology

Psychology is an approach to academic and applied includes the study of scientific functions of the human mind and human behavior. With the use of scientific method or opposition, used from time to time, depending on Psychology, also on the work of interpretation of symbolic and critical analysis, it is said that despite the fact that these methods are not used equally in the social sciences, such as sociology taught psychologists many phenomena, such as perception and knowledge and emotion and personal behavior and interpersonal relationships. While studying other psychologists, the subconscious mind applies knowledge of mental in many different areas of humanitarian activities. It includes problems related to matters of daily life, such as family, education and employment, and how to solve the problems of mental health. try psychologists study the role of mental functions in each of the behavior of the individual and society, at the same time explore the processes the physiological and neurological hidden includes the psychology of many studies and applications sub-related aspects of several of life, such as human development, sports and health and industry and the media and the law. It also includes psychology research conducted in various fields of science, such as natural sciences, social sciences and humanity, and knows the student of psychology or the user on behalf of a psychologist.

It is important to study psychology from different perspectives in order to understand how different beliefs, personality trait, characteristics, attitudes can influence human behaviors. Psychology is a diversified way of presenting the knowledge and findings in different topics that are centralized to psychological enquiry. Numerous perspectives on the psychology coexist and have a different approach to the issues that are the focus of psychology. This is not to be understood that these perspectives are mutually exclusive, but complement each other much more. That is why many researchers are trying out these additions.

The psychodynamic perspective - the human nature is not always rational

With this perspective, which is heavily influenced by Sigmund Freud's work, came to the realization that the man does not always behave rationally. It also states that behavior of non-confidence in the related content is driven. The drive and the motives of the people derive primarily from instinct and the pursuit of homeostasis between personal needs and social needs. Mainly influenced by Freud's work the issues of child development, dreaming of forgetting are unconscious motivation, personality and psychoanalytic therapy.

The stimulus and response - the starting point of the behaviorist perspective

In the centre of behaviorism, are stimuli and these stimuli following reactions of individuals. Founder of this direction is John B. Watson and Skinner are important representative. Skinner extended the research by increasing the consequences of reactions observed. He developed the Skinner box, in which he explored the responses of rats and pigeons. Behaviorism is based mainly on animal studies and the observation results are often transmitted to humans. The strict behaviorism provided important contributions to research in education (reward instead of punishment) and ...