Objectives of psychology

Objectives of psychology in education perspective and general view


There are four objectives of studying psychology, namely to describe behaviour, understand behaviour, predict behaviour and to control behaviour.
  • Describe: the first objective of psychology is to describe how behaviour occurs.
  • Understand: the second objective is to determine the causes of behaviour.
  • Predict: after describing and understand the causes of behavior we are able to predict how one will behave under certain conditions.
  • Control: the forth objective of psychology is to influence the behaviour of individuals.  
As a teacher you like to know what somebody is doing and how is doing it (describe); then know why is s/he acting like that (cause); will s/he do the same in the future (predict)?; and finally what can be done to maintain/eliminate the behaviour (control).

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