Free Psychology Books: Psychology in Everyday Life by D.G. Myers

Psychology in Everyday Life by D.G. Myers

HOPING TO FIGURE OUT THEMSELVES AND OTHERS, millions tum to psychology, as you now do. What do psychologists really know? "What's it like being married to a psychologist?" people have occasionally asked my wife. "Does he use his psychology on you ?" "So, does your Dad, like, analyze you?" my children have been asked many times by friends. "What do you think of me?" asked one barber, hoping for an instant per­ sonality analysis after learning that I am a psychologist. For these questioners, as for most people whose exposure to psychology comes from popular media, psychologists analyze personality, offer counsel­ ing, and dispense child-rearing advice. Do they? Yes, and much more. Psychology's roots are broad, its ideas are big, and its investigations are scientific...........

Psychological Scienc e Is Born
How has psychology's focus changed over time?

Psychology as we know it was born on a December day in 1879, in a small, third­ floor room at a German university. There, Wilhelm Wundt and his assistants cre­ated a machine to measure how long it took people to press a telegraph key after hearing a ball hit a platform (Hunt, 1993). 2 (Most hit the key within about one-tenth of a second.) Wundt's attempt to measure "atoms of the mind"-the fastest and simplest mental processes-was psychol­ogy's first experiment. And that modest third-floor room took its place in history as the first psychological laboratory.

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