Psychology is the study of the mind, occurring partly via the study of behavior.

[1][2] Grounded in scientific method,[1][2] psychology has the immediate goal of understanding individuals and groups by both establishing general principles and researching specific cases,[3][4] and for many it ultimately aims to benefit society.[5][6] In this field, a professional practitioner or researcher is called a psychologist, and can be classified as a social scientist, behavioral scientist, or cognitive scientist. Psychologists attempt to understand the role of mental functions in individual and social behavior, while also exploring the physiological and neurobiological processes that underlie certain cognitive functions and behaviors. Psychologists explore such concepts as perception, cognition, attention, emotion, phenomenology, motivation, brain functioning, personality, behavior, and interpersonal relationships. Psychologists of diverse stripes also consider the unconscious mind.[7] Psychologists employ empirical methods to infer causal and correlational relationships between psychosocial variables. In addition, or in opposition, to employing empirical and deductive methods, someespecially clinical and counseling psychologistsat times rely upon symbolic interpretation and other inductive techniques. Psychology incorporates research from the social and natural sciences, and from the humanities, such as philosophy. Psychology is both an applied and academic field that studies the human mind and behavior. Research in psychology seeks to understand and explain how we think, act and feel. Applications for psychology include mental health treatment, performance enhancement, self-help, ergonomics and many other areas affecting health and daily life.

Early Psychology
Psychology evolved out of both philosophy and biology. Discussions of these two subjects date as far back as the early Greek thinkers including Aristotle and Socrates. The word psychology is derived from the Greek word psyche, meaning 'soul' or 'mind.'

A Separate Science
The emergence of psychology as a separate and independent field of study was truly born when Wilhelm Wundt established the first experimental psychology lab in Leipzig, Germany in 1879. Wundt's work was focused on describing the structures that compose the mind. This perspective relied heavily on the analysis of sensations and feelings through the use of introspection, a highly subjective process. Wundt believed that properly trained individuals would be able to accurately identify the mental processes that accompanied feelings, sensations and thoughts. Psychology (Greek: , lit. "study of the mind", from psykh "breath, spirit, soul"; and -, -logia "study of"[1]) is an academic and applied discipline involving the systematic, and often scientific, study of human mental functions and behavior. Occasionally, in addition or opposition to employing the scientific method, it also relies on symbolic interpretation and critical analysis, although it often does so less prominently than other social sciences such as sociology. Psychology is important as it is concerned with the study of behavior and mental processes

and at the same time, it is also applied to many different things in human life. Everything we perform is very much related to or with psychology. Psychology, primarily studies who and what we are, why we are like that, why we act and think like that and what we could be as a person.

Different Subfields of Psychology

Abnormal Psychology primarily focused on the study of abnormal behavior. The study is conducted to determine, describe, predict, explain, illustrate and change abnormal patterns of performance. It studies the nature of psychopathology and its causes. It is very applicable in treating the patient with psychological disorders. Biological Psychology scientific study of biological basis of behavior and mental condition. Since the persons behavior is controlled by the nervous system, biological psychologist suggested to examine the way the brain operate in order to comprehend the persons behavior. Cognitive Psychology studies cognition or the mental processes bring about behavior. Various subjects included to this field are perception, learning, problem solving, memory attention, language and emotion. It is associated with a school of thought called cognitivism. Personality Psychology generally refers to the persons personality. The main focused of this study are the patterns of persons behavior, thought and emotions as well. Psychology and Law also known as Legal psychology. Explore the topic regarding jury decision-making, eye witness memory, scientific evidence and legal policy. Quantitative Psychology involves and usage of mathematical and statistical methods in psychological research and the development of statistical technique in analyzing and illustrating a behavioral data. School Psychology the combined principles of educational psychology and clinical psychology in understanding and treating students with learning difficulties and disabilities. As well as to encourage intellectual growth to every gifted students. Social psychology focus on how human think about each other and how they relate to one another. It primarily studies about the humans social behavior and mental processes. Comparative Psychology the focal point of this studies are the behavior and mental process of animal compare to human beings. Counseling Psychology it performs personal and interpersonal operations in a persons being wherein the main concern are the emotional, social, vocational, educational, health-related, developmental and organizational areas. Industrial/ Organization Psychology it is more related to optimizing humans potentiality in the work place. Environmental psychology is the practice of making sure employees and visitors to the office feel appreciated, important, happy and healthy while in the space. Clinical Psychology the center of its practice are psychological assessment and psychotherapy, however it is also engage in making inquiries, teaching, consultation, forensic testimony and program development and administration. Developmental Psychology concentrating on the growth and development of the human mind in its entire existence. It also tries to find reasons and to comprehend why people perceive, understand and act and how these stages alter as they grow.

Forensic Psychology deal with a lot of practices basically including clinical evaluations of defendants, statements to judges and attorneys and courtroom testimony at provided issues. Health Psychology the method of applying psychological theory and studies to health, disease and health care. It is concerned with health-related behavior involving healthy diet, the doctor-patient relationship the patients comprehension regarding health information and viewpoint about illness. Child Psychology studies about the childs growth and development involving the stages of their social, emotional, mental and physical progress. Psychology of Creativity it mainly involves new discoveries and usually resulted from different way of thinking. Psychology of Beauty how an individual perceive and appreciates the beauty of other people and the things around him. Animal Psychology how the animal respond to a stimuli in a trial and error process. Their responds to this method determines their behavior.

Science (from Latin scientia, meaning "knowledge") is a systematic enterprise that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the universe.[1] In an older and closely related meaning (found, for example, in Aristotle), "science" refers to the body of reliable knowledge itself, of the type that can be logically and rationally explained (see History and philosophy below).[2] Since classical antiquity science as a type of knowledge was closely linked to philosophy. In the early modern era the words "science" and "philosophy" were sometimes used interchangeably in the English language. By the 17th century, natural philosophy (which is today called "natural science") was considered a separate branch of philosophy.[3] However, "science" continued to be used in a broad sense denoting reliable knowledge about a topic, in the same way it is still used in modern terms such as library science or political science.

Subset
A subset is a portion of a set. is a subset of (written ) iff every member of is a member of . If is a proper subset of (i.e., a subset other than the set itself), this is written . If is not a subset of , this is written . (The notation is generally not used, since automatically means that and cannot be the same.) The subsets (i.e., power set) of a given set can be found using Subsets[list]. An efficient algorithm for obtaining the next higher number having the same number of 1 bits as a given number (which corresponds to computing the next subset) is given by Gosper (1972) in PDP-10 assembler. The set of subsets of a set is called the power set of , and a set of elements has subsets (including both the set itself and the empty set). This follows from the fact that the total number of distinct k-subsets on a set of elements is given by the binomial sum

For sets of , 2, ... elements, the numbers of subsets are therefore 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, ... (Sloane's A000079). For example, the set has the two subsets and . Similarly, the set has subsets (the empty set), , , and .
In mathematics, especially in set theory, a set A is a subset of a set B, or equivalently B is a superset of A, if A is "contained" inside B. A and B may coincide. The relationship of one set being a subset of another is called inclusion or sometimes containment.

If A and B are sets and every element of A is also an element of B, then:

A is a subset of (or is included in) B, denoted by

or equivalently

B is a superset of (or includes) A, denoted by

If A is a subset of B, but A is not equal to B (i.e. there exists at least one element of B not contained in A), then

A is also a proper (or strict) subset of B; this is written as

or equivalently

B is a proper superset of A; this is written as of all subsets of S

For any set S, the inclusion relation is a partial order on the set (the power set of S).

Humanities
he humanities are academic disciplines that study the human condition, using methods that are primarily analytical, critical, or speculative, as distinguished from the mainly empirical approaches of the natural sciences. The humanities include ancient and modern languages, literature, history, philosophy, religion, and visual and performing arts such as music and theatre. The humanities that are also regarded as social sciences include history, anthropology, area studies, communication studies, cultural studies, law and linguistics. Scholars working in the humanities are sometimes described as "humanists".[1] However, that term also describes the philosophical position of humanism, which some "antihumanist" scholars in the humanities reject. Some secondary schools offer humanities classes, usually consisting of English literature, global studies, and art.