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Lissandra Cobb Jeff & PG College Bound June 4, 2013

The Study of Psychology

Psychology has been used to analyze behavior and human mentality since the 1800’s. The first psychology laboratory was made in 1879. People use psychology to find out why people act a certain way, and to see if they have any mental behavioral or psychological problems. The study of psychology has changed the way we look at and treat people with mental disabilities in the following ways: in mental institutes patients there are left to suffer and die and are treated like they are worthless to life., kids are being diagnosed with mental disorders just because they are shy, depressed or addicted to the internet, and they are given special lesson plans in school, and now because of psychology people are now concerned and interested in the behavior of humans and their mentality and they are trying to find out how the human mind functions. Psychology doesn’t have a very complex definition psychology can be defined as the study of the human mind and behavior. Psychology embraces the function of the human brain, the actions of nations, child development and the care for the aged or aging. People use the study of psychology to benefit their society and improve peoples’ lives.

Psychology has changed the way we look at and treat mentally challenged people by treating them like they are nothing and letting them suffer. In “[|State Mental Hospitals Struggle with Patient Safety]”, Emily Coakley says that a mental hospital had one of its mentally unstable patients sitting in a chair for 22 hours without any food or water. They didn’t even let him use the bathroom. While the patient was sitting there in pain the staff were just sitting around, they were watching TV and playing cards. The patient died and his death was caught on video. The article “[|Nazi Persecution of the Disabled]”, states that the Germans passed a law in 1933 that said to sterilize or kill the people that suffer from diseases including mental illnesses. They also passed propaganda against the mentally disabled people saying that they were unworthy of life and that they are useless. They even used euthanasia as an excuse to why they were killing them. The Germans said that they were suffering so they put them out of their misery. Psychology has changed how we look at and treat mentally challenged people because some of them are treated badly, treated like they are nothing and let them suffer by not giving them food or water and left to die. Also, they are being killed because of their disability .

Psychology has changed how we look at and treat mentally challenged people because kids are being diagnosed with mental problems of addiction to the internet and shyness, and given special lessons in school. In “[|Medicine’s Big New Battleground: Does Mental Illness Really Exist?]” Jamie Doward asserts that the influential American dictionary of psychology states that shyness in children as well as depression and internet addictions can be classified as mental disorders. According to "[|Special Education News]", there are types of education that meet the special needs of physically, mentally, or psychologically challenged students. The teachers for these particular students have special techniques, special materials and specially designed lesson plans for each individual student based on their mental disability. Psychology has changed the way we look at and treat mentally challenged people because we diagnose kids with mental disabilities for shyness and give them special education by having special lesson plans for each student and having special tools and techniqu es. Psychology has changed the way we look at and treat mentally challenged people because now people are concerned for human behavior and they try to figure out how the mind works. According to the article, “[|What is Psychology]”, psychology is the study of the human mind and behavior. Psychology is the concern of the behavior of humans. In psychology human behavior is used as evidence of how the mind functions. In the article, “[|6 Mind Blowing Talks about Psychology and the Human Behavior]”, Joel Lee stated that people act a different way than how they actually feel. Study shows that people will tell you that there is nothing wrong with them when there obviously is something wrong with them. The human mind is complex and confusing which is the reason why the human behavior is complex and confusing. Psychology has changed the way we look at and treat mentally challenged people because now we are more concerned with human behavior by acting a different way than what we feel and causing the mind to be complex and confusing. The way we look at and treat people with mental disabilities and behavioral and psychological challenges has changed due to the study of the human mind and mentality also known as psychology. This has changed because some of the people with these mental disabilities are treated like they are nothing and are left to suffer. Also, kids are being diagnosed with mental illnesses because of addiction to the internet, shyness and depression, and those kids are given special education. In addition to that people are more concerned with how the mind works. Psychology is important to everyday life because we come in contact with people with mental disabilities every day and we treat them like they are unworthy and useless. The next time you see a mentally disabled person remember that they have a different mind function than you do and everyone’s mind functions differently. Those people are as worthy of life as you are they just need the extra help to find their way through life to be as successful as any one of us can be.