Psychology
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 Psychology facts

• It is an academic discipline and a social science which seeks to understand individuals and groups by establishing general principles and researching specific cases
• In this field, a professional practitioner or researcher is called a psychologist and can be classified as a social, behavioral, or cognitive scientist
• Psychologists attempt to understand the role of mental functions in individual and social behavior, while also exploring the physiological and biological processes that underlie cognitive functions and behaviors
• Psychologists explore behavior and mental processes, including perception, cognition, attention, emotion (affect), intelligence, phenomenology, motivation (conation), brain functioning, and personality
• This extends to interaction between people, such as interpersonal relationships, including psychological resilience, family resilience, and other areas
• Psychologists of diverse orientations also consider the unconscious mind
• Psychologists employ empirical methods to infer causal and correlational relationships between psychosocial variables
• In addition, or in opposition, to employing empirical and deductive methods, some—especially clinical and counseling psychologists—at times rely upon symbolic interpretation and other inductive techniques
• Psychology has been described as a "hub science", with psychological findings linking to research and perspectives from the social sciences, natural sciences, medicine, humanities, and philosophy
• While psychological knowledge is often applied to the assessment and treatment of mental health problems, it is also directed towards understanding and solving problems in several spheres of human activity