1, know the world inside and outside. Psychology also needs nutrition. Learning psychological knowledge and practicing psychological skills is not necessarily to become a psychologist, but to help solve puzzles, know yourself, improve yourself and help others help themselves.
2. Deepen your understanding of yourself. By studying psychology, we can know why we do certain behaviors, what kind of psychological activities are hidden behind these behaviors, and how the characteristics of personality and temper are formed now.
3. Adjust and control behavior. Although people's psychological characteristics are quite stable, they also have certain plasticity. Therefore, we can predict and adjust the behavior of ourselves and others within a certain range, and we can also adjust our behavior by changing internal and external factors.
4. Application in practical work. Psychology can play a direct role in practical work. Teachers can use the laws of educational psychology to improve their teaching practice, or use the knowledge of psychometrics to design more reasonable test papers. The staff of the shopping mall used the knowledge of consumer and advertising psychology to redesign the window to attract customers.
Psychology is a science that studies human psychological phenomena and their psychological functions and behavioral activities under their influence, taking into account outstanding theories and applications. Some people think that studying psychology can not only see through other people's minds, but also equate psychology with physiognomy. Others believe that psychological phenomena are intangible, mysterious and difficult to learn and understand. These misunderstandings are mainly caused by not understanding the research objects, tasks and methods of psychology. In daily life, people's understanding of psychology includes both content and form. Knowledge, experience and ideas accumulated in life belong to psychology. This is not the object of psychological science research, but the object of other related natural science and social science research. Scientific discretionary psychology mainly studies the forms of psychological activities such as perception, thinking and emotion carried out by the human brain in the process of accumulating knowledge and forming ideas.
Psychological process includes cognitive process, emotional process and will process. Psychological activities such as vision, hearing, smell, memory, imagination and thinking are all cognitive processes. In the process of understanding things, people are not indifferent and indifferent to what they know, but with emotions of anger, worry, love and disgust. This is the emotional process. Will handle it. On the basis of the process of understanding and feeling, the psychological process of determining certain goals and plans and choosing appropriate methods to overcome difficulties and transform the world is the process of will.
Whether it is cognition, emotion or will, there is a process of occurrence and development in time, so it is called "psychological process". The process of cognition, emotion and will is closely related to students' learning in practice. Studying psychology can deepen people's understanding of themselves. By studying psychology, we can know why we do certain behaviors, what kind of psychological activities are hidden behind these behaviors, and how our current personality, temper and other characteristics are formed. For example, after learning the law of forgetting, you can know what are the shortcomings of your previous methods of memorizing words; Knowing the adaptability of feeling can explain why "I went into Lan Zhi's room and didn't smell it for a long time".
Similarly, we can also apply the laws of psychological activities we have learned to interpersonal communication, and infer their internal psychological activities through other people's behaviors, so as to realize a more accurate understanding of the external world. For example, as a teacher, if you understand the students' knowledge base and cognitive level, as well as the conditions to attract students' attention, you can better organize teaching and obtain good teaching results. Psychology not only helps to make a descriptive explanation of psychological phenomena and behaviors, but also points out the law of the emergence, development and change of psychological activities. People's psychological characteristics are quite stable, but they also have certain plasticity. Therefore, we can predict and adjust the behavior of ourselves and others within a certain range, and we can also adjust our behavior by changing internal and external factors. In other words, we can try our best to eliminate unfavorable factors, create favorable situations and trigger positive behaviors of ourselves and others. For example, when we find that we have some bad psychological qualities and habits, we can use the law of psychological activities to find out the internal and external factors that induce these behaviors, actively create conditions to change the influence of these factors, and realize the transformation of our own behaviors. For another example, rewards and punishments play an important role in cultivating children's good habits and transforming children's bad behavior habits by using the principle of conditioned reflex.