Part one of term paper
Chapter 1 discusses psychology. It mentions why psychologists do what they do and the purpose of why they study psychology. It also discusses how psychologists conduct research, how psychology emerged, the steps of research, ethical issues, and the 20th century perspective on psychology. Psychology is the study of how people think, feel, a ...

Part two of term paper
... naturalistic observation, and experiments. Psychologists control one or more independent variables in order to observe the effects of a dependent variable. There are controlled groups in every experiment that is conducted. This way comparison can be made between the two groups. The foundations of psychology are philosophy and physiology. Plato, a Greek rationalist, emphasized the use of reasoning as a way to find knowledge. On the other hand, Aristotle emphasized that what we can see and touch ...