BEHAVIOUR&

HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES

OFPSYCHOLOGY

BY: SHEENAM

BEHAVIOUR

It means anything a person or animal does that can be observed in some way. Behaviour enlight mind or thought or feeling can be observed, recorded and studied. So we define psychology as the science of behaviour.

NATURE OF BEHAVIOUR It is a collective name of our all activities

. These activities are following :- - Motor Activities : walking , dancing swimming etc.- Cognitive Activities : it is also known as

imaginative activities. Eg: thinking , reasoning etc.

- Affective activities : feeling , happy , sad and angry

It concern all segment of human beings

Concious Sub-Concious Unconcious

It study behaviour of all living organisms - Behaviour of human beings as well

that of birds , insects , plants and

animals.

PSYCHOLOGY

It defines as the science of human and animal

behaviour . It include application of this science to human problems. Psychology word derived from two greek words, ‘psyche+logos’

‘psyche’ means ‘state of change from time to time’ & ‘logos’ means ‘study of soul’.

HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES

BEHAVIOURISM : ‘John B.Watson’

rejected mind as asubject of psychology and insisted

that psychology being restricted to study of behaviour , observable . The observable activity of people and animal.

CHARACTERISTICS OF BEHAVIOURISM : It also focus on conditional reform as

the element of behaviour It was infaces on learned rather than

the unlearned behaviour It focus specially on animal behaviour.

PSYCHO ANALYSIS : It was founded in

eillena , Austria by Psychatrist Sigmund Fruid in the course of his practice with neuratic patents

fruid developed a theory of behaviour and mind which said that much of what will do and think result from arguse which seeks expressions in behaviour and thought

GESTALD PSYCHOLOGY : This

psychology was found in Germany about 1912 by Max werther

and his colleages Kurt Koffka & Wol gang kholer . Gestald means form or configuration. The Gestald Psychologist maintain that mind should be thought of as resulting from all pattern of sensory activity and organisation within the spectrum.

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