When identifying the approaches of Human Behaviour, How do they differ and in what sence do they form a coherent, integrated, whole?

-- Alanah Child (alanah.child@jcu.edu.au), March 29, 2001

Answers

Psychology is typically divided up onto various domains that have very long histories (predating psychology proper by centuries): sensation, perception, cognition, emotion, social relations, personality, development, etc. There are no clear lines between these domains, but they focus on different "core phenomena," as it were. As for the second mpart of your question, it is not entirely clear that they do form a coherent whole. There are some common assumptions, but they are usually methodological (i.e., how to conduct research and interpret results) rather than about the content of psychology per se.

-- Christopher Green (christo@yorku.ca), March 29, 2001.