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Introduction to Psychology Overview

so good day uh dear students who we today start our psychology course it's a big part of knowledge uh what we can use every in everyday life and of course uh we can manipulate with our knowledge and understand ourselves and other people it's very interesting course and we have 10 lectures for in this course and today it's our first lecture and we start from uh introduction to psychology uh for today we can understand and we can see some answers for questions like what is a psychology why psychology important and how can we use psychology in everyday life first question uh it's a what is psychology psychology it's a scientific study of mind or mental processes and the behavior first of all psychology was a big part of a philosophy of course and uh if we take the word psychology like uh the word psychology have a two words in in uh first it's a psyche psych it's a soul from from greek word and first of all psychology of course was a part of knowledge about our soul but today psychology it's a knowledge about our mind and mental processes and a second word it's a logical logic it's a study from greek word and psychology it's a mind study or study about mental processes first of all of course we study about uh soul but we can't touch the soul we can't do something with soul but we can touch our mind we can feel it we can change it and we can do everything what we want and of course today's psychology it's a big part of knowledge about our mind and mental processes psychology have a big history um not like a mass or philosophy or i don't know other knowledge of psychology it's very young only uh uh 200 years old but psychologists uh have a very interesting history first of all psychology came from philosophy like other knowledges and we start our history from general psychology what does it mean general psychology first of all all people want to know who we are why we can sing why we can feel and what kind of feelings we have at all and the general psychology study our feelings our mind processes and of course everything about our mind everything about our feelings and everything about our behavior after general psychology we have very interesting progress and we have educational psychology educational psychology it's a psychology about education how can we can know something how can we learn something what kind of manipulation we must have for understanding knowledge it's ever seen in education psychology next part of psychology big part it's a development psychology of course it's a very important part of psychology because in development psychology we work with our life in our life we have a lot of processes we have a lot of things what can help us to grow to understand something or to work with someone or other people and the development psychology show us how can we grow what kind of processes can help us to understand to grow to have a best life what we can uh create for ourselves after development psychology a big part of psychology psychological no knowledge of course it's a social psychology all of us we are live in social area every time we communicate and only communication make us a people of course only with communication we have a mind we can speak we uh we can some thoughts about our life or our communication and of course it can help us to understand ourselves because without communication we can't understand who we are and uh everything about communication communication in a small group communication in a big groups communication with our family or with our friends or communication with ourselves it's everything about social psychology and social psychology can give us some answers how can we create our communication what kind of methods we can use to communicate with other people and why we have some problems with communication and of course uh it's everything about social psychology after social social psychology uh social psychology have some parts it's a family psychology uh it's a gender psychology it's a big group psychology and of course very interesting part of social psychology it's a health psychology or psychology of health about what is part of psychology first of all uh psychology of health came from sport and we have sports psychology and in sports psychology we first of all must understand how can we use our body to win uh to uh do something for a sport for do something or for a uh i don't know some um for wins some medals were to show a good prog progress uh from from with our body and after then uh psychologists and um and medicine they are understand first of all to use our body for uh for our life healthy life we must understand first what does it mean health at all and of course uh here one new part of psychology the psychology of health and in in this part we m we learn about uh what does it mean health how can we use our health what we must do for healthy life and everything about our well-being next very interesting part of psychology of course you can hear about it it's a psychotherapy psychotherapy it's a very young part of psychology and in psychotherapy we can work with a psychologist or with some group and of course in psychotherapy we can understand why we have problem and how can we work with this problem and why we um why we create this problem for us because all problems what we have in our life we create it with ourself later we work with this question and you can understand why i said it uh so next uh about what i want to uh tell you in our first lecture of course i want to tell you about psychology at all and the psychology it's a first of all scientific knowledge scientific study uh some people they are can't believe for it but psychology can show you how can you change your behavior and how these changes can help you to change your life to change your mind and opinion of course when you have some changes in your life you can change everything near you and other people psychology first of all learn about our behavior and our behavior it's like action what we create for for showing our mind our thoughts and our wants mental processes uh every time uh have some result and for understanding this result we must understand what includes our behavior and our behavior came from our mental process and our mental processes it's our thoughts our uh beliefs our feelings a lot of feelings we have um just now we can speak about only five feelings yeah we can hear uh we we can see we can uh feel uh something with our hands or with our body uh yeah and we can fill some tests yeah testy uh food or i don't know maybe other things and of course uh we we can feel uh how can we sit or area around us and we have a lot another a lot of feelings and we speak about it later uh so everything in psychology belongs to our body because our mind is a part of our body and our behavior it's a result of our minds our thoughts and sometimes we create new parts of behavior new actions of behavior to win something or to achieve our goals or to create something for using with our self and it's belong to our wants our needs and uh some actions uh between our self uh history of psychology first of all when we speak about history you have to uh before we tell about the part of psychology it's very interesting part and the uh first of all psychology starts from philosophy and the first thoughts about psychology we can find from greek philosophers like plato aristotle maybe you can hear about it or we have a lot of books about it here you can read it uh early psychology first of all uh first first of all the word psychology are used by philosopher rudolph gekkel in 1519 and he write about feelings and he write about um why people feel something and they make or create some thoughts about uh some acts around us but psychology like knowledge starts his history starts as a new part of knowledge from first lap in germany uh william wundt of open first love love in 1879 and from this first lap psychologist starts his history and psychology create something new in knowledge because before all uh knowledge is there um there learn something about people but it's a it's a knowledge about a surrounding of people and psychology is the first knowledge what wants to show others to understand what we have in our self what we have um in our mind and why we do something it's a knowledge about ourselves about you and about me uh so uh when we speak about history uh yeah uh first about whom i want to tell of course it's a big wound he opened first lap after uh will gail we must speak about william james william james it's a first psychologist philosopher who focusing on psychology who wants to answer to questions about psychology and he have a lot of books about people about how can we understand each other next next man have a big effect for psychology it's a first person who learn about learning about why we learn something it's a herman edinburgh he learned about psychology he learned about learning how can we learn something why we learn it and why some for some people learn something it's very easy for other people it's a hard scene uh next very important um person in psychology of course you hear about his self it's a sigmund freud ziggman freud it's an australia australian uh psychologist he uh for for psychology he created a new part he create a psychotherapy it's a first man who work with other people with some history with some unknowledges uh without any drugs only or when he speak with uh with participants his participants he he creates something new or he opened for us with uh speaking with communication we uh we can understand the problem of other people and not all people have some psychological illnesses sometimes they have only problems and we can work with this a problem of course sigmund freud have a lot of new new parts for psychology he opened for us um consciousness mind and consciousness mind and uh it's a first person in psychology uh who tell about about a lot of knowledge in our self not only about us about our family about our history and of course sigmund freud it's a person who create who give a uh important part for psychology next with what we uh with whom we must work of course it's a skinner a skinner it's a person who opened for us behaviorism behaviorism it's a part of psychology or what works with our behavior in behaviorism we can understand one interesting thing everything what we can show to other everything what with what we can communicate it's our behavior in when we can see other behavior we can understand our other people and we can show with only our uh our thoughts our uh i don't know our needs only with our behavior of course it's a it's a big progress in psychology uh next it's um gene uh pigeons these psychologists uh learn about development he opened very interesting things he's all very interesting thing about um biology in psychology it's a it's a hard to understand and at first time but our genes uh our family our body some um some parts of our mind there can create ourselves there can create our uh our personality and of course when we speak about psychology we must understand about it and we must work with it next person uh it's again sigmund freud sigmund freud opened for us in conscience and conscience mind he uh speak about normal and and abnormal psychology first of all and he created a lot of works of for understanding our basic needs uh we speak a lot about basic needs but uh sigmund freud's all about very interesting thing if we have our basic needs uh we can't do something for ourselves or we we must work with our basic needs but our basic needs it's a um eat sleep uh rests and other things what we must do every day next very important psychologist it's alfred bandura alfred bandura learn social psychology and he created the social learning theory uh i had bandura tell about very interesting thing all our knowledges came from social area of course when we board we can understand our needs we can communicate only when we have social area and our social area it's a first our social area it's the first our social group it's our family and our family give us knowledge about uh what's what kind of harmful things we have around us what kind of problems we have and what kind of needs we can have because first our needs it's only sleep and eat and after then when uh when we when we can communicate when we uh can uh see other people when we can see our family uh we can understand yeah we have another uh needs too we can it's uh not only we can not only drink milk we can eat something like ice cream i don't know maybe uh some uh testy things uh yeah we can eat meat but first of all we don't have this need and of course all things what we can uh what we can fill we will with what we can work what we can learn first of all came from our social area uh next uh psychologist it's a uh leon of uh fei stenger leon feistenger it's a uh psychologist who tell about values and our beliefs everything what we have uh it's something what we create in our mind uh our crea our creating parts it's our beliefs if we believe for something it can work in our life and if it's work it can be a value for us and for our social area of course in our social area we have uh some ethnical or national beliefs and norms uh and disease beliefs and norse can create a new values and we can understand these values and work with these values and live with these wells without values and beliefs we can communicate with other people uh next um psychologist it's a william james william j james it's a father of american psychology william james um very he opened for us uh psychology of students uh he created a very interesting learning uh methods in psychology for helping uh to students to understand some knowledges to create a new thoughts about it and to you of course use this knowledge in everyday life so next it's a not psychologist it's a um physical russian physiology ivan pavlov of course if you remember your biology at school you can remember his uh important experiment yeah and uh pablo opened for us a very interesting scene he opened for us a behavior part of communication every time our behavior belongs to communication and our behavior have some attitudes what can help us to understand our needs beliefs and our wants so a next psychologist it's a carl rogers car rogers uh it's a very famous psychologist he against all about education in psychology he tell about first of all about model of ideas model of educator a model of um how can we create a area for uh for for education and it's very important thing next very important person in psychology is eric ericsson eric erickson is the first person who uh who creates some system development system in our life uh he tells very interesting thing in our life we have a lot of parts um of of growing first of all it's a childhood next it's adult and then it's an old age and in all these parts we have some problems like others we have some very important moment important moments uh with what we can create our best life uh next uh it's a russian psychologist a lef vygotsky le fogotsky it's uh it's a psychologist who uh create this system of a better knowledge uh with uh with whom we can understand how can we learn something to create something new uh how how can we we communicate to to create a new changes in our life because all communication they are must give us information for our life for our um important uh reality and for our uh how can i say uh for our well beginning because without it we doesn't want any communication uh when we're born of course we want communication because only communication create our personality but after then we must communicate with people only uh to understand ourselves and to uh change our behavior to create something in our life so uh we in psychology we have some most important perspectives uh first of all it's a structuralism structuralism it's um the part of psychology or when psychology have some structures and with these structures we can understand uh how can our body our organism our psyche works next it's a function of functionalism of functionalism it's a study of human and animal changes uh it's a study of processes in our mind uh next next it's a psychodynamic uh uh perspective psychodynamic perspective focusing on our uh behavior or or on our dynamic dynamical changes in our behavior next it's a behaviorism behaviorism it's a part of psychology where we can uh study our mind and how our mind um create our behavior and how can our changes in our behavior uh create uh new parts of our thoughts or change some our minds uh at all next it's a biological uh perspective biological perspective it's it's focusing on on our genes on our family on our memories feelings and brain uh next it's a a humanistic perspective humanistic perspective of course uh it's focusing on human uh on his growing on his feelings and on his life next it's a cognitive perspective cognitive perspective focusing on mental processes on thinking memory uh and other things social culture perspective it's a perspective or focusing on communication on our social area on our thinking and how our social area can change our mind can change our behavior so um