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introduction to psychology

.-Between a person and an object, ex. driver and his car, scientist ant his tools.-Between values, ex. honesty and sincerity. All these areas of human relationships are being influenced by various factors. Psychology aims to help people analyze them.BRIEF HISTORICAL REVIEW Primitive human believed that all the elements of nature had soul. He believed that good or bad spirits caused rain earthquakes, rain or sunshine, diseases or wealth e.t.c.The ancient Greek Philosophers studied the nature of the world and of the human soul.Thales, Anximander amd Anaximenes did not believe in supernatural explanations but only in scientific ones. Thales believed that the basic element of nature is water, but Anaximenis believed that the basic element is the wind. Anaximander said that reality consists of a constantly moving essence.According to Empedokles the basic elements are: earth, wind, fire and water. The human body consists of these elements, too. The bones, the muscles come from the earth, the liquids from the water, the logical functions from the fire, and the procedures that ensure survivor from the wind.Hippocrates, based on Empedokles said that there are four types of humans: the optimist, the melancholic, irritable and the impassive.Democritus believed that the world consists of tiny parts that cannot be divided: the atoms. Even the human mind consists of atoms.Socrates studied the inner world of human, the soul. He believed that the soul is immortal and not material. The sense, the memory and the cognition help us to distinguish the useful and the harmful. The shame and the fear help people live together.Plato said that the psychological functions are: sense, memory, mentality and perception. Sense and perception refer to the present, whereas memory refers to the past. Fantasy and mentality help us to create new things. Sentiments serve our survivor since we are happy when we satisfy our needs and unhappy when we do not satisfy them....

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