PSYHOCOLOGY AT A GLANCE
Psychology studies the activities of individual .The science of human behaviors is actually a group of sciences .On one side we find psychology investigating the organs and cells that do the work of the organism ,and the other side we see the social sciences studying nations and groups of mankind. There is room for a middle science that shall focus its attention on the individual. That middle science is psychology. Psychology studies the individual's activities through-out his span of life, from the beginning before birth, up through the end of life .During this life history, the Man remains the same individual, although his behavior shows continuity along whit
many changes. Psychology. Compares children and adults ,the normal and the abnormal and the human and the animal. It is interested in the differences between one individual and another, and still more interested, if possible, in the general laws of activity including event of very different individuals-laws, for example, of growth learning, thinking and emotion. Psychology can be defined as the science of the individual's activities.
The word "activity" is used here in a broad sense .It includes not only motor activities like walking and speaking but also cognitive (knowledgegetting) activities like seeing ,hearing ,remembering ,thinking ,and other emotional activities like laughing and crying, or feeling happy or sad. These last may seem passive, because they are activities, for they depend on the life of the organism .Any manifestation of life can be called an activity .No matter how passive an individual may seem to himself in watching a game or listening to music, he is really carrying on an activity. The only way to be completely in active is to be dead.
Glossary
Behavior : tingkah laku
Attention : perhatiaan
Mankind : orang
Remains : tetap
Defined : diartikan, didefinisikan
Manifestation : perwujudan
Investigatin : menyelidiki
Nation : bangsa
Although : walaupun/meskipun
Continuity : kelancaran
compares : bandingkan
defined : digambarkan/ditetapkan/dirumuskan
Answer these following questions !
1. What is psychology ?
2. Name some individual activities.
3. Give example(s) of motor, cognitive, and emotional activities.
4. Is listening to music a kind activity ?why ?Why not?
5. What is meant by: the science of human behavior is actually a group of sciences?
6. When do we call an individual completely inactive?
7. The word "activity" is used in a very broad of sense .What does it mean?
8. What kind of activity is happening when you write a letter to your girl or boy friend?
9. Why do we study human behavior?
10. What causes the differences between individuals?
Answer Exercise 1
1. Psychology is the study of human behavior in relation to the environment.
2. Writing, Sleeping, and Driving.
3. Motor activities: Walking, Speaking, and Running.
Cognitive activities: Seeing, Hearing, and Thinking.
Emotional activities: Crying, Laughing, and Mad.
4. Listening to music is a kind of activity, because no matter how passive it is, he/she
really carrying on an activity.
5. On one side we find psychology investigating the organs and cells that do the work of
the organism ,and the other side we see the social sciences studying nations and
groups of mankind. 6. When someone's dead
7. Activity in the sense widely is a series of processes and behaviors such as walking,
talking, crying, laugh.not only motorik but also cognitive.
8. It’s a motor activity
9. We must study human behavior because we can know the nature-human nature itself
and the idea that every human has different properties depending on environmental
and social.
10. It causes of growth, learning, environment, thinking and emotion.
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