Understanding Psychology

Influencial period:         1950s-present Contributors :    Jean Piaget     Noam Chomsky     Herbert Simon Subject matter:        Thoughts and mental processes  Basic premises:          Human behavior cannot be fully understood without examining how people acquire,store and process information.    In the 1960s    c ognitive psychology replaced b ehaviorism  as the leading philosophy in education . Because  there are three primary criticisms  of behaviorism.  behaviorism did not explain  language learning how language is  learned ,how young  people learn language their mother tongue.  it did not explain why people r espond  differently to the same stimulus when  a group of people or individuals are  exposed to the same stimulus . it did not explain reinforcement can r educe  motivation.behaviorism is heavily...

The basic idea behind the humanistic approach is that the other approaches are to focus on the negative side of psychology such as if you look at the psychodynamics approach it's all just doing negative thinking or a pressed thoughts. They called it the sick half of psychology which focuses on mental health problems. Influencial period:                      1950s-present Contributors:                    Carl Rogers                     Abraham Maslow  Subject matter:                      Unique aspects of human experience  Basic premise: Humans are free, rational beings with the potential for personal growth and they are fundamentally different from others. Explanation: Humanistic approach wanted to take a different view . So it's quite a positive approach. It's known as ...

 Psychoanalysis was first formal theory about personality.it was presented by Sigmund Freud.He was an Austrian neurologist.He also known as the father of psychoanalysis. Contributors : Sigmund Freud  Carl Jung  Alferd Adler Subject matter:              Unconsciousness mind. Basic premise : Unconscious repressed desires and experiences in early childhood leads to personality and mental disorders. Freud  treated people suffer from psychological problems such as irrational fears, obsessions and anxiety with his procedure called psychoanalysis. His work with patients and his self exploration persuade him about the existence of unconsciousness. According to him the unconscious mind contains thoughts, memories and desires that are well blow the surface of conscious awareness but that nonetheless exert great influence on behavior. Structure of personality: He gave the concept of id ,ego and superego. Id works on pleasure principle....

Happiness is the name of harmony between mind and body .it leads contentment of soul and believes.it is a state of mind in which mind generate message to whole body that everything is in best conditions.So our body feel pleasure and ignore conflicts and negative feelings.it send signals to soul to be thankful to creator. Happiness is an emotional state that increase our productivity and creativity to think and work It gurente the long, healthy and contented life. There are many elements that play a vital role to make ourselves happy such as family, marital relationship,peer groups, social gatherings, financial status, achievements of desired goals and a well organized healthy routine life . Positive thoughts are responsible for positive feelings and attitude with others such as love ,care, loyalty, friendships and emotional attachment. Basic elements of happiness  Different organs and glands in our body release hormones that are responsible for happiness such as serotonin,dopamine....

Our present is preparing us for our time to come, but we do not understand its aspects. The most important characteristic to understand them is the power of faith. The source of this power is trust in our real creator, the Lord.  Reliance is the real power that teaches us to cope with all our circumstances, good and bad.Our most of psychological and physical health is affected due to trust deficit and faithlessness with religious aspects of life. Our mind is designed as an explorer....it want to explore the whole world.it has curious nature by default,so it works so hard to resolve the curiosity.  Even it works 24/7 to  in order to achieve pleasure satisfaction but meanwhile sometimes it feels fatigued and restlessness.Most probably we often name this psychological state of our mind as stress anxiety and depression etc. These all psychological status our due to many causes they sometimes may be biological or sometimes may not.Our heredity factors and on going life 's soci...

  Forgetting is a blessing and it's quite normal.if we remember every minute information than our mind will become over burst.so forgetting of unimportant stuff is an healthy activity of our brain. The capacity to forget is a gift that we all have. Suppose if we had memory of all that terrible that has occurred in our lives since we came to this world. We would have likely gone distraught,  people most often advise to  say forget and forgive. One will find it challenging to forgive without forgetting, aside from those blessed people who can relinquish their emotions and feelings of resentment even with new memory of what has been fouled up to them.   Sometimes we forget both the good  and bad incidents that has happened to us. People will quite often forget the struggles that came in their lives, and the strategies by which they overcome the challenges effectively. We will more often than not fail to remember the resources, the endowments we have been given...

  Acceptance of failure is the first step towards practical, innovative, successful and blessed life.it encourage us to rethink and reconsider about our ability.it motivates our mind to find and generate new ways to succeed and get targeted goals.sometime it enhance our thought processes  Failure isn't the end particularly when you know how to acknowledge it for what it truly is. Again and again, many people associates it with surrendering comparative with anything that they are endeavoring. While success is praised and celebrated in our world. Most of successful people or associations have encountered failure a long time before they achieved success. Most of people believe that the people who have achieved success have done so in light of the fact that they are fortunate or that they have never failed. Truth be told, the polar opposite is valid in that failure has been yet is quite possibly of the best educator throughout everyday life. Acknowledge failure as best Instructor...

Sports psychology plays an important role to upgrade the performance of sportsman and deal with their psychological needs.it motivate the athletes and work with their stress management, field frustration .it enhance the effective teamwork and provide coping skills according to their needs.  It appears to be a great chance to investigate the mental perspectives in cricket.Cricket is about group activity. It put high demand on players that caused mental toughness. Cricket is a game that requires persistent mental durability. This is on the grounds that cricket as a game changes length of game, going from 20 over games to games that most recent 5 days, following this up with the power of the game which requires mental durability to "eagerly go into the focused energy conflict among hitter and bowler, and really revel in the situation"combines for a game to push a players mental strength as far as possible.  There are by and large five elements of mental toughness. Moral obligati...

  Self-talk is our internal discussion with our own self. It is affected by our unconscious mind, and it mirrors our thoughts , convictions, questions and ideas.   It can be both negative and positive. It tends to be thrilling, or may be agonizing.it depends upon our personality. If a person is optimistic, his self-talk can be more hopeful and positive. On the other side if he is pessimistic, than it's normally negative.   Positive thoughts and hopefulness are successful in dealing with mental issues and give social and physical health satisfaction..  Excessively regrettable self talk can lead us  to psychological and physical issues.   Advantages of Positive Self Talk  Positive self-talk can expand your presentation and general health. Hope begins to sparkle in your life. Furthermore, you begin to feel calm and fulfilled. Positive self-talk assists you with feeling improved during inconvenience and actual torment and works on your body's immune system...

  Depression is psychological state in which person feel distress and persistent sadness.He/she continues to recall his past and become upset because of unfavorable memories. Symptoms: A person who suffers with depression face various  symptoms that few of them can influence his state of mind and others influence his body.  The intensity and duration of symptoms may vary from person to person among male, females, teenagers, and kids .Some general symptoms are as follow:  feeling disrupt and restless feeling sad and worthless   crying alot without reason  feeling irritated and frustrated   loss of interest in routine activities diminished energy or weariness  trouble in thinking and decision making   moving or talking slowly irregular sleep appetite or weight loss  persistent physical pains with no unmistakable reason that seeks worse with treatment (migraines, aches, stomach related issues, cramps) self destruction or suic...

 Introduction to Anxiety Disorder  This is such an unfortunate disease that currently the nation could not agree on the name of this disease in Pakistan.   Anxiety means fear,nervousness,  restlessness and feeling like panic anxiety state. No matter how worried you are. Being light-headed for no reason.  Tired of thinking about the future.  Being disappointed with the future.  Seeing darkness in the future.  Dreaming while awake. File a case yourself. Fighting a case as a lawyer himself. Giving a verdict as a judge. To become an executioner and give death sentence. etc  It is such a nasty disease that every patient has different symptoms. There are about 316 symptoms .  In simple words, the patient himself gets worried by thinking a false thought as true, then he himself starts to fear this thing. Then he considers this thought to be true and makes it an irrevocable truth or universal truth. Although this false thought is not...

  Technique to maintain your psychological or mental health: Many researches has uncovered the ways that can help us to maintain our mental health such as: Celebrate every moments and relationship of your life because it creates  incredible sentiments. construct a rich interpersonal environment by flexing your relational abilities. Truly pay attention to your nears and dears,be real, sharing your contemplations and sentiments.  Always try to avoid conflicts and troublesome feelings, remain quiet about sentiments according to situation, or stewing over issues lessens prosperity. Those ready to deal with their feelings well ordinarily experience better emotional well-being. Feeling handling includes being available to encounters and tolerating every one of your sentiments and considerations, including the troublesome ones. It assists with searching for valuable arrangements, think deftly and see circumstances according to alternate points of view when you are stood up to by...