Distinctive psychology-post-reading

<Distinctive psychology> distinctive psychology mainly emphasizes the difference between psychology and media propaganda accepted by the masses and self-thinking psychology. from a scientific point of view, we will gradually elaborate on the scientific nature of psychology, and explain people's reasons for misunderstanding of Psychology in the book. its main purpose is to give people a clearer understanding of psychology, so as not to be misled by psychology publicized by the media, nor be misled by psychology in their own hearts, correct use of psychology knowledge to improve your life.

Psychology is a science, and its research methods follow the general research methods of other natural sciences. However, its research objects mainly involve human behaviors, and many studies are basic theoretical studies, the results are generally presented in probability statistics. therefore, the general public does not have a clear understanding of the research results. They only want to give a reasonable explanation of their own behaviors and the behavior they encounter. this gap leads to the widespread use of imperfect theories, theories without system verification, and the popularization of these theories to satisfy people's desire for reasonable interpretation. however, the theory of popularization is not reasonable every time. In this way, people begin to doubt the scientific nature of psychology, which leads to prejudice and misunderstanding of psychology. They think that psychology is just a trick of deception.

The scientific nature of psychology mainly reflects the following aspects:

1. The progress of psychology is achieved through the practical problems that can be solved by research. in the real world, there are many problems: the definition of operability cannot be implemented, or the definition of operability cannot be implemented at the present stage. These problems are summarized as essential problems. for example, why is a person alive? What is gravity? And other issues.
2. Concepts in psychology theory are operable.ProgramThese definitions will gradually change with the accumulation of evidence.
3. Psychology Theories are verifiable, and these theories are tested by means of system implementation. The data collected by this method is open, that is, it allows other scientists to repeat these experiments and criticize them.

In my life, I seldom pay attention to psychology. I don't catch a cold in fortune telling, fortune telling, horoscope, and other things, basically, I think that those words just use some omnipotent words to bring up a similar sense of self. then, after reading this book, I had a deeper understanding of the predictions and explanations of these life based on psychology, and corrected some misunderstandings about psychology. more importantly, I realized the general method of scientific research.

The process of scientific cognition is to observe the phenomena in the real world and put forward theories to explain these phenomena. This interpretation is not only an afterthought explanation, but also a predictive model that can be predicted based on the proposed theories, finally, observe whether the actual phenomenon conforms to the theoretical prediction, that is, the theoretical testing process. the final test is incorrect. If there is any deviation, it indicates that the theory is incomplete or wrong. At this time, we need to correct the theory to promote the more reasonable theory.

In the face of a wrong theory, sometimes people cannot admit their own theoretical deviations and errors. Instead, people bypass the data that does not conform to the theory and bypass the test. Such behavior should be prohibited, this requires scientific workers to take a rigorous attitude and overcome their own weaknesses in human nature.