Adam Cash

Psychologists don’t stop at the intersection of stress, disease, and coping. They’re also attempting to apply what they know about human behavior and mental processes to the problems of health in general. They’re looking for ways to keep people physically well and trying to find out how people’s behavior contributes to illness.

If you open up the skull and look at the brain, one of the first things you’ll like notice is that anatomically, the “one” brain is really two halves called hemispheres. These two halves are connected by a large bundle of nerve fibers called the corpus collosum. Structurally, there are three main divisions of the brain: forebrain, midbrain, and hindbrain.

Besides the brain itself, cells and chemicals are some of the major components of biological psychology. At the cellular level of brain anatomy is what many brain scientists consider to be the fundamental unit of the brain and the nervous system: the neuron, a specialized cell that provides the foundation for brain functioning, which is communication among nerve cells.

What makes a good psychological movie or show? A good psychological film or show makes the viewer feel, act, and think like a psychologist. It’s a lens (literally and figuratively) that affords you the gaze of the psychologist. Could good psychological films and shows really just be another form of data collection and analysis, even research, or even therapy?

The main question that fuels psychology is “Why do people do what they do?” Psychology basically aims to uncover what people do along with why and how they do it. Studying everyday behavior and mental processes is the focus of psychology much of the time. But sometimes the stresses of life can seem overwhelming, and in those cases people need help right away.

Sadness is a human emotion felt during experiences of loss. Psychologists define depression as an extreme form of sadness that includes specific symptoms. Being dumped by a boyfriend or a girlfriend at one time or another is a fairly universal experience. How does it feel? Sad. Most people feel fatigued, unmotivated, and sleepless when they get dumped.

There’s no magic formula for being a psychologically healthy person. If psychological health is simply the absence of mental disease or mental illness, a lot of people are perfectly healthy from a psychological standpoint. But some people think that there’s more to being healthy than being disease-free. Psychologists are not necessarily in the business of deciding the values of a society.

All behavior is learned, whether it’s healthy or abnormal. Behavior therapy is based on one of three learning theories: Ivan Pavlov’s classical conditioning B. F. Skinner’s operant conditioning Albert Bandura’s social learning theory Here’s how these theories understand learning: In the classical-conditioning sense, learning refers to associations formed between events or actions.