Human Growth and Development / Unit 1 HGD 0001 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Psychology Defined
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The idea
Psychology is the scientific study of the mind and of the behaviour the mind produces, from observable actions to the thinking behind them.
In practice
A person's affect, their emotional experience, and their cognition, every kind of thinking.
Where people slip
Behaviour means observable action. Affect includes reading other people's emotions; cognition spans memory, calculation, imagination and language.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
Builds on
- Nothing. This is a starting point.
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