What is Psychology? — Psychology STD 11 Humanities — Question
CBSE BoardEnglish MediumSTD 11 HumanitiesPsychologyWhat is Psychology?3 Marks
Question
Discuss Psychology as a Social Science.
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Answer
Human beings are both biological as well as social beings:
The socio-cultural context and people's participation in culture make psychology a social science.
Psychology as a social science discipline focuses on humans as social beings and studies it in socio-cultural context.
There are individual differences with regards to various psychological traits.
While psychologists do observe particular individuals and their behaviour they are more interested in discovering general patterns and regularities in relation to their socio-cultural and physical environment.
They use samples to understand the population and to formulate laws and theories which can be generalized.
Humans are not only influenced by their socio-cultural context. They also create them. Thus, to conclude it can be said that psychology has become a hybrid science that is concerned with the interrelationship of the physical, psychological and physiological aspects of reality.
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