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Psychology is the study of emotions, cognition, and behaviors.
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There are different psychological angles that focus on things like behaviors, biopsychology, and the study of mental processes.
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Behaviorists tend to stick to those things that are observable in human psychology.
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Psychology has been studied and written about since ancient times.
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Modern psychology predates to about the 1870s in Germany with the opening of the first research laboratories devoted to psychological research.
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There are many different areas of applied psychology that are used in numerous ways in all aspects of human life.
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There are different degrees that can be gotten in the study of psychology as an academic focus.
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