CHAPTER I - PSYCHOLOGY AS A SCIENCE
The dim water reflect its secrecy
Clouds are dark hiding its identity
The rain fell and everything seems wicked
What exactly is psychology?
But suddenly, the sun rise up
The entire place has become dazzling
Everything seems clearly now than ever
It is not linked on imagination
But rather it is a logical science
You've got to know first about behavior
It has different schools and areas
Not only behavior but also process
Overt and covert acts of a person
It all purely deals with psychology
CHAPTER II - FACTORS OF DEVELOPMENT
I had been asking myself about things
Tough things that even myself can't answer
The same color of eye from your mother
Similar hair color from your father
Where did you get your personality?
Is it because of nature or nurture?
Human undergoes stages of growth
It encompasses different changes
Physical, cognitive or social
May refer to these different changes
Different twins were also determined
Either fraternal or identical
Every single stage ends with death
People deal with death in dissimilar ways
CHAPTER III - PSYCHOLOGICAL BASES OF HUMAN BEHAVIOR
Do you ever think on how brain functions?
How does it makes every person thinks?
Does every human have the same brain?
Do every human differ in their brains?
Nervous system is in charge in this stuff
A living tissue made up of cells
This is a living tissue made of cells
Glia and neurons are its two classes
Soma, dendrites, axons, myelin sheath
Are the parts of neurons with functions
There are these glial cells, non-neural cells
Surrounding the neurons holding in place
Brain has parts, hindbrain, midbrain and forebrain
Glands having chemicals that they secrete
CHAPTER IV - SENSATION AND PERCEPTION
Since elementary, we had been taught
About five sense organs that humans have
A sense organ for sight so we can see
A sense organ for hearing to listen
A sense organ for tasting to taste foods
A sense organ for scents for smelling
Sense organ for touching to feel something
Sensing is connected to percepting
Sensing is activating sense organs
Percepting is mixing many senses
However, illusion is percepting
But do not correspond to reality
Furthermore it is a fool to our eyes
Thus sensing activates our sense organs
CHAPTER V - CONSCIOUSNESS
To be aware is to be conscious of
Did you ever think of some matters?
When you sleep at night, are you conscious?
There are altered states of consciousness
These are sleep, dremas, hypnosis and drugs
Sleep has its own stages of it
From stage one to stage four then REM
However, sleep has also problems
Sleep talking is talking when asleep
Sleep walking is walking when asleep
Insomnia, having hard time asleep
Apnea, the difficulty while sleep
Narcolepsy, sleep is not control
It is important that we are conscious
CHAPTER VI - LEARNING AND MEMORY
Learning is connected to memory
While learning, we are remembering
Thus it is stored in our memory
The facts that was stored in memory
Needs to applied so forgetting will not
Occur and make us recall facts faster
There are many theories in learning things
Memory is storing ideas
It do encode and retrieve ideas
Memory has kinds and subtypes of it
Sensory which lasts only in instant
Short term which holds facts several seconds
Long term which was stored permanently
Learning leads to change of a person
CHAPTER VII - THINKING
Thinking makes humans superior of all
More capable than other forms of life
An individual is always engage
Person is engaged in thought all the time
The way people think is not limited
Thinking is a process- brain and motor
Works as brain and motor activity
Also has different types of thinking
Free associations and fantasy
Delusional and cretive thinking
However, there are also elements
Imagery, conceptual and verbal
Thinking play a huge part in human's life
Makes every person very productive
CHAPTER VIII - MOTIVATION
Motivation comes from a Latin word
This Latin word "movere" means to move
From then on, people associated
The word motivation to many things
They relate it to goals they want to reach
In the motivation, there are motives
Classified - primary, social motives
Primary motives for man's survival
Social motives for man's social beings
Also, the theories of motivation
Maslow's theory and Mcdougal's theory
Drive reduction and incentive theory
Bernard Cannon's homeostatic theory
Motivation is moving a person
CHAPTER IX - EMOTIONS
Emotions is how you feel about now
Being agry that you want to throw things
Things that your hands can grab on already
Being sad that you want to cry so much
Crying your heart out for too much sorrow
Being happy that you are smiling
Smiling the whole day, heart is jumping
Emotions can lead to great achievement
Like the Taj Mahal that was built for love
There are these emotional reactions
These are fear, anger, depression and love
The fear and anger is almost the same
Depression isa similar to anger
Love mainly involves positive feelings
CHAPTER X INTELLIGENCE
He is intelligent and also wise
She is intelligent and also wise
Now, you're asking yourself, can you be wise?
Being intelligent is a good thing
Intelligence describes abilities
Comprehending and communicating
Reasoning, planning and problem solving
No person can excel in all areas
He excel in one but not in others
Theory of multiple intelligence
A theory propose by Howard Gardner
Believing that each person has areas
Even though we excel in that or not
All that matters is that we are wise
CHAPTER XI - PERSONALITY
Personality is a set of traits
Let's have an example for this matter
Every time Manny Pacquiao win a fight
His product endorsements tend to increase
Even his mother and wife, gaining star life
He also pursue congressional seat
Even lack of education, training
Despite of that, people gave him support
But what makes Manny Pacquiao different?
It can be reffered personality
It is what an individual possess
Making him unique and one of a kind
Just as there is no persons are alike
No personalities are similar
CHAPTER XII - ADJUSTMENT AND MENTAL HEALTH
Why would an individual kill himself?
What have lead him to commit suicide?
The only reason behind this is grief
Grief/depression is kind of dangerous
When someone is depressed on a matter
What he can lead to is death/suicide
When one's objective was block by someone
With this, the feeling would be frustration
One's desires is unlimited, not ended
Dissatisfaction leads to frustration
Frustration classified into two kinds
First is dissatisfaction to oneself
Second is dissatisfaction outside
