Introduction Psychology originally started out as a branch of philosophy but has since acquired an independent status. It employs scientific methodology in the studies of human behavior and emotions. This means that the basic scientific procedure of postulating a hypothesis and then proceeding to validate these with the use of empirical tests is the standard approach. Psychology is both an academic and practical subject. An academic subject, it studies in depth all topics under personality and related topics like social behavior and human development and emotions. As a practical subject, it carries out investigations in respect of practical problems associated with every life of a human being. Psychology draws from various fields of knowledge in analyzing psychological problems and in particular it assumes the validity of certain concepts in philosophy such as deduction, induction and abduction. It uses the concepts of deductive nomological reasoning and inductive reasoning extensiv...
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