Psychology is a scientific inquiry of the human mind and its processes. Psychology began way way back in early human civilization during the great empires of Egypt, Greece, Persia and China. It quickly aroused interests and advanced into becoming the scientific and empirical psychology we are more familiar with today.
Those who seek to practice psychology and have studied this social science are called psychologists. Some of the issues that are under the scientific duty of psychologists are personality, behavior and interpersonal relationships. All in all, everything about human mind and interactions between humans are topics of interests for a psychologist.
Personality psychology is one branch of psychology that even non-psychologists have taken notice of. Most companies employ the use of personality psychology when determining if certain people should be hired by asking them to answer a series of character determining questions. In essence, this area of psychology is interested in trying to understand the overall personality of individuals.
Personality psychology starts with constructing a coherent picture of a person through pieces of information gained from the person being studied. Comparing the results with how the individual behaves with other people is also to be examined. Eventually, even same reactions and exactly same behaviors and personality traits are studied as well.
Big 5 personality trait is an example of personality psychology that is widespread among psychologists, though there are still some who are skeptical about it. The more widely accepted terms under the theory are neuroticism, openness, extroversion, agreeableness and conscientiousness. Psychologists claim that these are the personality traits that can be observed in everyone but some are more leaning towards a particular trait compared to others.
The definition of the personality traits are given below for us to fully understand a person's personality. Artistic people are mostly open people as they have a broader mind when it comes to accepting new ideas and extroverts are mostly those who can relate and are always in the company of other people. Agreeableness shows in people who tend to be compassionate instead of antagonistic towards others, and being a conscientious person means being self-disciplined and being an achiever.
Lastly neuroticism, which is an obvious trait to people who are always emotionally unstable. With the knowledge of what the 5 major traits of humans are, psychologists can now better predict and study human behavior and emotions. You may start to see how psychology is such a huge topic, as this one theory is simply a theory in a branch of personality psychology.
Everyone will experience psychology being used on them, whether they know it or not. This social science is so broad and complex in dealing with how the human mind works. Basic psychology is not just for psychologists to understand, but it is something that ordinary individuals should also learn to appreciate.
Psychology brings a lot to the table and can be used in all fields that have human input or interaction. Since psychology is basically the study of mind and behavior, it is a fit in any human endeavor. That is why it is present even in the office, school and athletic settings.
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