Topic > Conceptual and historical issues in psychology

For a long time in history, studies of the history of psychology have been conducted in three distinct ways. These areas were the following: consciousness, psyche, behavior and mental life, but each case was separate. Psychology in this case was the domain of knowledge. Furthermore, psychology was composed of various accounts. There was also the case of the society composed of visions of the world, of culture or of industrialization. Although sometimes the history of these disciplines is not seen, there are social aspects that are studied and how they are related to psychology. The most frequently asked question is the relationship between the theories of psychology and its application to human life, for example to individual life, mental life and subjectivity. Currently, writers' efforts to separate the three categories have seen the light. Psychology itself cannot exist without a society that supports all its facts. Furthermore, the psychological object cannot be considered autonomous, given, discovered, but that which is discovered and comes before knowledge. Psychology can therefore be seen in two perspectives: as a discipline and as a human subject. It can be concluded that psychology exists in a constructed domain. This is contrary to the scientific domain in which truth is constructed. Introduction Science uses an empirical approach. This approach states that our senses are the only place from which knowledge originates. This is contrary to the view of knowledge according to which it could be acquired exclusively through arguments and logical reasoning. So empiricism believes that knowledge is based on experience. Empiricism through the acquisition of knowledge through experience became an approach of science and greatly influenced the chemistry and physics of...... middle of paper...... Scientific thinking, however, continues to justify each observation with mere experimentation. Over time it is discovered that the outcome of experiments has an implication on judgment because many arguments can be correct until they are proven right. Another example concerns the statistics in which it is implicated in relationships. Works Cited McLeod, S. A. (2008). Simply psychology; Psychology as a scienceG. Bachelard (1984). The new scientific spirit, trans. Arthur Goldhammer, Boston, Beacon PressK. Danziger (1990). Constructing the Subject, Cambridge: Cambridge U. PK. Gergen (1985). The social constructionist movement in modern psychology, American PsychologistHacking (1990).The Taming of Chance, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press.P. Heelas and A. Lock (1981).Indigenous psychologies: the anthropology of the self, London, Academic Press