- The science of mental life. It is about the ways in which organisms use their mental abilities or minds to operate in the world around them.
- The main branches of Psychology are as follows
- Abnormal - deals with psychological dysfunctions
- Behavioral - behavior, learning and collection of observable data.
- Biological - psychology of different species, inheritance patterns, and determinants of behavior
- Cognitive - deals with cognition — how information is processed and used.
- Development - how organisms change
- Differential - studies large groups of people to identify typical variations.
- Physiological - mutual influences between physiological state and psychology.
- Social Psychology - study of social behavior.
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