Understanding The Basic Concepts in Psychology

Psychology: the science of behavior and mental process. Psychology define as a science because psychology try to understand people through careful control observation.

Psychology = psycho + logy
The earliest author is Aristotal, creak scholar. one thing he disagree with his teacher is:
His teacher: Plato said: one can understand thing by thinking of it. Aristotal said: one can understand thing by observation.

Goal of Psychology is:

1 To describe
2 To understand
3 To predict
4 To influence

Some books for a new learner in psychology:

Human behavior, a first book in psychology for teacher.
The principle of buddhist psychology.
Easy on buddhism and psychology.
Buddhist and western psychology.
Introduction to psychology.