Psychology --The discipline of study Psychology

The discipline of psychology

Every discipline can claim that it teaches the student two things:

	A body of systematic knowledge, unique to that discipline,
	and a set of specialist skills.

Now I am going to make a very strong claim for psychology and say that it is in a very strong claim for psychology and said that it is in a very special and advantageous position in relation to other discipline. Because Psychology spans science, social science, and art approaches, it samples a wide variety of intellectual and practical skills.

Psychology shares a  number of skills :

	Literacy;
	Numbering;
	Ways of thinking;
	and Practical skills

What you have to consider ?

	You  have the potential for applying the skills they have acquired
	across a broader range of both intellectual and working contexts.

Skills in Psychology

Literacy

In the learning process, you have to read a lot for :

	Purchase an introduction book before joining the course, to ensure that you obtain good overall view of the nature of the subject.
	You will be ask to write easy to prepare written material and in obtaining information from books. So you are encouraged to use the library  in an active ways and soon develop a facility in reading quite complex material .
	The course place a regressively greater responsibility on the student to work on his own, an ability to read, to understand to make sensible notes and to organize one's developing fund of knowledge is quite essential.
	Besides, you have to use the ability to read for : Write essay Report

Playing with ideas and theories

There are theories in every branch of Psychology, and most empirical studies are designed to test specific hypothesis which is derived from a theory, or which set up the predictions of one theory against the predictions of another theory. In every lecture you hear and in every book you read, you will have to think very hard.

Theories are not just loose bundles of ideas but have a number of formal properties. The properties of theories can specify a part of psychological knowledge which seek to explain, 'the development of language in young children', or ' the behaviour of people in groups'.

You have to:

	Raise with theories whether they actually do manage to explain the phenomena they seek to explain,
	and whether the key concept in the theory do hang together and related to each other  according to the rule which the theorist sets down.
	Looking at the formal structure of a theory to see if it hangs together in a way which coherent and free of contradictions.

This imposes quite a demand on the student, because you have to ask yourself a great many questions about every thing you read. For example:

	What exactly is this theory about?
	Do I understand the key concepts and what the author means by them?
	Do I understand the rules which govern the relationship between concepts
	What does this particular hypothesis , which is being tested arise from the theory?
	What method is this experimenter using to test the theory and why?
	Does the design of the experiment really test the theory in the best possible way?
	Can I devise a better experiment to test the theory?

Listening

It seems strange to suggest that you have to learn to listen. Because the nature of psychology and the ways in which it is taught, systematic listening skills are essential.

The ways to taught psychology:

	Listening in lecture, concentrate on the materials and to restructure it for your own purpose. The aim is to understand the material and record the important or salient features.
	Listening in tutorial and seminar session, you need to listen so that yourself can make a relevant and meaningful contribution to the development of the materials under discussion.

Numeracy

In short, as psychology is a quantitative discipline, it emphasize measurement and mathematical modeling of events., I.e. a range of psychology data. These may include measurement derived from a variety of instrument, including human judgment. Here is some hard work for you to do. If you to decide whether you think the measurement involved in the example is likely to be hard or easy, and the reason why.

Statistics is a essential tools in psychology , so you learn in a course.