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  • Introduction to psychology

    The word psychology is derived from two Greek  words:

    • psyche ->mind, soul or spirit
    • logos ->knowledge, discourse or study.

    Psychology is therefore a study of the mind.

    Psychology is concerned not only with what all humans have in common, but also looks at how every one of us differs from each other in terms of our beliefs, personalities, and capabilities.

    In psychology we tries to understand why one person has different preference from us. Why one person prefers to be alone and reserved while another person derives their satisfaction and joy by getting attention from people.

    In psychology we try to figure out why some people has certain feelings or why we are likely to act in a different way given the same situations. For instance you may understand why some people are able to maintain one relationship for a long time while another person hop from one relationship to another quitting relationships with the slightest indication of a red flag and consequently creating a series of exs in the process. In psychology we could be able to dissect such behaviours in terms of insecurities gathered in childhood and other factors.

    By studying psychology, you may understand why your friend fears rats while you could be fearing cockroaches.

    some people fear thunder while some may not be bothered and all this lies in our mind.

    The emergence of Psychology as a separate discipline is commonly dated from 1879, when Wilhelm Wundt opened the first psychological laboratory at the University of Leipzig in Germany.

    Wundt and his co-workers were attempting to investigate the mind through observing and analysing the structure of their own conscious mental processes with the aim of analyzing the basic structure of thought and perception. Later on, this method of studying psychology was disapproved because of its subjective nature and it’s difficulties in making meaningful and realistic observation.

    Watson in 1913 proposed that Psychologists should confine themselves to studying behaviour, since it is the measurable and observable by more than one person.According to Watson, The study of inaccessible private, mental processes was to have no place in a truly scientific Psychology.

    Definitions

    Psychology is the Science of Mental Life, both of its phenomena and of their conditions,(James’s, 1890). Phenomena in this context means such things like feelings, desires, cognition, reasoning, decisions and the like.

    Psychology is that division of Natural Science which takes human behaviour of the doings and sayings, both learned and unlearned as its subject matter, (Watson, 1919).

    Psychology is the scientific study of behaviour where Its subject matter includes behavioural processes that are observable, such as gestures, speech and physiological changes, and processes that can only be inferred, such as thoughts and dreams.(Clark and Miller’s ,1970).

    Psychology is the scientific study of people, the mind and behaviour. (the British Psychological Society (BPS)).

    Conclusion

    There is so much to study about psychology and when we study it, we are likely to understand human beings better, probably we will be more sympathetic than judgemental when we see people behaving in a way we deem inappropriate and help them instead of avoiding them. Understanding psychology will help you create and maintain better relationships and makes you bring more joy and peace to people around you.

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  • Isaac Newton

    Sir Isaac Newton was an English scientist active as a mathematician, physicist, astronomer, alchemist, theologian, and author who was described in his time as a natural philosopher.He was a key figure in the Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment that followed. His pioneering book ‘Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica’ first published in 1687, consolidated many previous results and established classical mechanics.Newton also made seminal contributions to optics, and shares credit with German mathematician Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz for developing infinitesimal calculus, though he developed calculus years before Leibniz.He is considered one of the greatest and most influential scientists in history.

    Isaac Newton’s Quick Information

    Some few important facts about Isaac Newton:


    Official name: Sir Isaac Newton Newton
    Date of Birth: 25Th December 1642
    Death: 20th March 1727
    Age: 84 years
    Place of Birth: Woolsthorpe Manor, Lincolshire county, England.
    Occupation: polymath
    Height: 5 feet 6 inches(1.68m)
    Father’s Name: Isaac Newton
    Mother’s Name: Hannah Ayscough
    Wife: Never Married
    Siblings: Mary Smith, Benjamin Smith and Hannah Smith.

    Isaac Newton’s Age

    Isaac Newton died at age of 84 years on 20th march 1642. He was born on 25th December 1642 in Lincolnshire county in England.

    Early Life

    His father died three months before he was born. His mother left her with maternal grandmother when he was three years old in order to marry a clergy man called Reverend Barnabas Smith. He disliked his step father, Mr. Smith and quarried constantly with the mother for marrying him.

    Isaac Newton’s Education

    He joined The King’s School in Grantham,a small town in Lincolnshire,England at the age of 12 and stayed in the school for 5 years. In that school, he learn Latin and Greek. Death of her mother’s second husband caused him to drop out of school. Through intervention of the principal of King’s school, He was readmitted back to school and did well academically.
    He was admitted to Trinity College at the Cambridge University in 1661. He paid for his studies by doing manual jobs in school for the school staffs. In 1964, he was awarded scholarship that covered his university costs for four years until he completed masters of Art degree.

    Newton’s Family

    His Father was called Isaac newton and his mother was called Hannah Ayscough. His father died before he was born, when her mother was six months pregnant.
    He had a step father called Barnabas Smith. His grandmother was called Margery Ayscough and had an uncle called Reverend Willam Ayscough. His uncle influenced his entry to University of Cambridge.

    Newtons wife

    Isaac Newton never married. He only showed some little interest on women when he was a teenage but later showed no interest with them. It is alleged that Isaac Newton died a virgin.However, in his teenage years, he seemed to enjoy company of girls than boys.

    Newton’s contribution to science

    • in 1687 he wrote his first book by title ‘Philosophie Naturalis Principia’ where he prostrated the laws of motion and universal gravitation that form contributed immensely to the scientific world until it was superseded by theory of relativity.
    • He used his mathematical descriptions of gravity to derive Kepler’s law of planetary motion, explain trajectories motions, describe the p recession of the equinoxes and explain for tides.
    • His claim that the earth is an oblate spheroid was later confirmed by many scientist later on.
    • He built the first practical reflecting telescope.
    • He developed a sophisticated theory of color by splitting white light into colors of the visible spectrum.
    • Researched on light and wrote a book called Opticks which was published in 1974.
    • he prostrated the empirical law of cooling
    • He made the first theoretical calculations of the speed of sound
    • Introduced the concept of Newtonian’s fluid.
    • contributed to the study of power series
    • generalized the binomial theorem to non-integer exponents
    • developed a method of approximating the roots of a function
    • classified most of the cubic plane curves
    • He was a fellow of Trinity College and the second Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge.

    Final analysis

    Isaac newton is considered a father of classical mechanics. He contributed immensely in the field of Science and mathematics.Isaac Newton feared criticism and controversy. He was not good with interpersonal relationship, but good in mathematical and analytical skills. in later years of his life, he became religious.

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