Concept of psychology

Every concrete branch of science is distinguished from every other by the specificity of its subject-matter. Thus, geology and geodesy, they both are concerned with the Earth, differ from one another in that geology studies its composition, structure and history, whereas geodesy focuses on the size and shape. Psychology studies the phenomena which are more difficult to define.

The difficulty consists first of all in that psychology is concerned with the investigation of mechanisms of mental activity. The processes which are explored by psychology have long been distinguished by the mind and separated from other manifestations of life as special phenomena.

Indeed, it is quite obvious, that my perception of a typewriter is something very special and different from the typewriter itself, the real object on the table in front of me.

People gradually learnt to distinguish between different categories of mental phenomena (mind’s functions, characteristics, processes, states and so on). Their specificity in people’s eyes consisted in that they belonged to man’s inner world as distinct from the environment. They were included under the head of mental or psychic life in contrast with real events and factors. Such phenomena were classed as “perception”, “memory”, “thinking”, “will”, “senses”, and so on. They make up what is called the mind, the psyche, man’s inner world, etc.

ВАРИАНТ 4

I. Перепишите следующие предложения. Определите по грамматическим признакам, какой частью речи являются слова, оформленные окончанием –s, и какую функцию это окончание выполняет, т.е. служит ли оно:

а) показателем 3 лица единственного числа в Present Simple Active;

б) признаком множественного числа имени существительного;

в) показателем притяжательного падежа имени существительного (см. образец выполнения №1);

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