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General Psychology: Chapter 1: The Nature and Scope of Psychology
General Psychology: Chapter 1: The Nature and Scope of Psychology
1. Human behavior follows an orderly pattern. Change in a Believes that differences in behavior is attributed to
person’s life has a degree of order and regularity in its the vital fluids / juices of the body:
nature. 1. Blood : Sanguine – cheerful
2. Phlegm: Phlegmatic – sluggish / flat affect
2. Human behavior can be known. Human behavior can
be observed. 3. Black Bile: Melancholic – sad
4. Yellow Bile: Choleric – bad temper
3. Knowledge of human behavior is tentative but superior to
ignorance. We must pursue knowledge to be able to
improve human conditions.
Genetic or This is a field of study regarding human 1. Kahayon and Aquino, General Psychology 4th edition
2. Gaerlan, Limpingco and Tria, General Psychology 5th edition
Development development and the inheritance and 3. Plotnik, Introduction to Psychology 3rd edition
Psychology development of traits and abilities.