your definition of psychology?

BA in psych as part of my triple major. I'm 20.

Psychology is a largely theoretical field. Having studied social psychology, cognitive psychology, developmental psychology, abnormal psychology, and personality psychology, I would say that the field is 10% concrete and 90% theoretical.

I.e. They try too hard to make it like a hard science with the scientific method, which I do really love, but they are going about it the wrong way. All of these years have passed and still no one can decide whether Stimulus-Response, Personality, Experiences or Neurons is king. Luckily someone finally disproved Fraud, I mean Freud.

No one really knows how the mind works just yet.

Was Descartes right? No.

So why would any other buzzing theory of today be?

What we do know is that the mind consists of neuronal connections, and lots of them. That's it.

We know nothing about firing patterns, interpretation / development of memories (I mean, we do know that memories are the neuronal synapses that attempt to capture the exact chemical release of a specific "memorable," event, we know about consolidation, where it happens and all of that but in the grand scheme of things, we really know nothing.)

Personality psychology died after gaining some large popularity in the 80's. Now people are increasingly interested in Cognition as it "seems" to be the most promising in terms of figuring out how the brain works.

So I'm sorry, but I just can't give you a definition of psychology. I could say that it's the study of the mind, but seriously, how helpful would that be to you?

26 the study of the mind and behaviors.

The study of the behaviors of humans and animals.