Psychology - The key area of Psychology

The key area of psychology

How to understand people? To understand people, psychologists need to know a great deal about a quite diverse range of subject matter. For example, a major concern of psychological research is to study what goes on under skin, how the nervous system and other aspects of our physiology work. Subject research includes anatomy, physiology and electrical and chemical reaction within the nervous system, from the examination of the action of individual cells to the operation of large brain structures. Research into the biological bases of our behavior is conducted both with animals and with human subject.

How do human learn and think? This extend beyond learning in the classroom to the understanding of the ways in which we handle and remember all sorts of information. Example:

How the child learns to walk
How we learn to use a lathe
How we learn to cope with life's stresses and strains.
Much of what we know about the elements of learning is based upon research conducted with animals.

How we behave in groups, interact and relate to each other? This is the study of social aspects of human experience. This includes the studies of the following:

Interaction between a mother and her child,
How people form friendship,
Decision making on a committee,
The behavior of football crowds, or relations between ethnic and national groupings.
All these topics are part of social psychology.

How we different from each other? Studies of psychology, learning, and social behavior are carried out in order to describe general laws or principal which govern human behavior and experience. Thus the study if individual differences in intelligence, personality and emotional responses, explain what makes people react in different ways to life event.