What is Psychology?

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Psychology can be described as the science which deals with the behavior of individual. Psychology also analyzes the mental processes of individual. Demonstration of psychology is important because some people mix sociology with psychology. Psychology deals with nature of individual whereas other term deals with the nature of society. Psychology renders benefits to the society by making several researches on particular cases. These cases are done for the purpose of understanding individuals and groups. Those who are professional in this field are generally called psychologists, could also be named as cognitive scientists, social scientists. Let’s say some few words about the history of psychology. Psychology originated from Greece, Egypt, and Persia. Basically those countries ancient civilization contributed a lot in the study of psychology. Plato, Aristotle are the first dominant legends in the study of psychology. As a main difference between sociology and psychology is that psychology deals with human nature, how they are working, cause and effect, on the other hand sociology deals with the whole society. Key similarity is that both of those are science of attitude, behavior.