[Week 5] Research IV

Research d). How should psychologists study the human's mind?

My Topic
Human can't understand all secrets of the human mind only with behaviorism


What I Hope to Learn from This Research
I want to know correct and reasonable methodology of psychology and how psychologists now study the human's mind.


Notes
1. We can call today's methodology in psychology as 'cognitive - biological approach'. It was suggested contra the behaviorism. So to speak, it is possible to say that this approach tried to explain human's mind in terms of mental-cognition and physical, neuron-biological processing.

2. For example, when psychologists want to explain Lisa's getting on a bus, they analyze this with two sides. First, she will have some desire to visit to her grandma's home and belief that bus will take her to get her grandma's house the most quickly. Second, they will add some explanation about neuron network and spinal cord which deliver some orders and information from the brain to peripheral nerves.

3. Fields of Fundamental Psychology : Developing Psychology, Social Psychology, Learning Psychology, Cognitive Psychology, Physiological Psychology, Psychoanalysis


Final Thought
Psychologists should analyze the human's minds with various viewpoints such as evolution, development, unconsciousness, neural processing, information processing. They can't understand all things about human mind with single viewpoint. Behaviorism is also.



* Source  1. Havard Sampler (Steven Pinker,  Kimyoungsa)
                2. www.koreanpsychology.co.kr
                3. Myers's Introduction of Psychology (David G. Myers)