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History of Psychology Psychology is the scientific study of the mind and the reasons for people's behaviour. Although it seems as though psychology has been around for a long time, as a science it really began just over 100 years ago. It took so long for psychology to become a discipline as until recently people did not believe that the mind could be studied objectively. Also as the technology was not available, we had no way to take the next step from speculation to science. It originated from two schools - physiology (the study of the body) and philosophy (the study of theories about the nature of existence, knowledge, beliefs, or behaviour). Plato and Aristotle, as well as other Greek philosophers, took up some of the basic questions of psychology that are still under study today: those to do with whether people are born with certain skills, abilities, and personality, or whether these...

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