Psychology: Introduction

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Psychology is one of the fields of science and applied sciences that study about behavior, mental function, and human mental process scientifically. Practitioners in psychology are called psychologists. Psychologists attempt to study the role of mental functioning in individual and group behavior, as well as to learn about the underlying physiological and neurobiological processes of behavior.

Personality Continuum Scale. According to the doctor of psychology from Switzerland, Carl Jung, there are 3 types of common personality in humans, namely Introvert, Ambievert and Extrovert.

Consumer behavior diagram. It is seen that the decision-making process of a consumer is influenced by three main facto namely marketing strategy, individual differences, and environmental factors.

Eysenck diagram. Eysenck Personality Diagram which is the development of the theory of Hippocrates.

Moral Component Connection Diagram in Character Formation. Moral is the good-bad determination of an act and human behavior. Examples: apologize, thank you, help others, devote to both parents. Character development in an educational system is the linkage between the components of characters that contain the values ​​of behavior, which can be done or acting gradually and interconnected between knowledge of behavioral values ​​with a strong attitude or emotion to execute it, whether against God, himself, fellow, environment, nation and country and the international world.

Psychology is derived from Ancient Greek: "psyche" meaning soul and "logia" which means knowledge, so that etymologically, psychology can be interpreted by the science of the study of the soul .

As part of science, psychology through a long journey. The concept of psychology can be traced back to ancient Greece. Psychology has its roots in the field of philosophy which was initiated since the time of Aristotle as the science of the soul, the science of the life force (levens beginsel). Aristotle views psychology as a science that studies the symptoms of life. The soul is the element of life (Anima), therefore every living being has a soul.  The history of psychology is in line with intellectual development in Europe, but earned its pragmatic form in the Americas.

Psychology as a science

Although there has always been a thought about the science of human learning along with the idea of ​​science that studies nature, but because of the complexity and dynamism of human beings to be understood, the new psychology was created as a science since the late 1800s when Wilhelm Wundt founded the laboratory psychology first in the world.

Wundt Laboratory

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In 1879 , Wilhelm Wundt founded the first Psychology laboratory at the University of Leipzig, Germany . Characterized by the establishment of this laboratory, then the scientific method to better understand humans has been found although not yet adequate. With the establishment of this laboratory, then complete the requirement to make psychology as a science . Therefore, the establishment of Wundt laboratory is also recognized as the date of the founding of psychology as a science.