What psychology does.

Abstract

Psychology has not always been defined just as we saw it in the preceding pages, nor has it always been a natural science with strictly scientific methods. As one psychologist has phrased it, psychology has had a long past, but a brief history. Its problems are as old as man's curiosity about human nature; its methods, which distinguish it as a science, have been developed mostly within the space of the last hundred years. As a separate and distinct subject, psychology was born and reared under the parenthood of philosophy; as a modern science it grew out of experimental physiology and biology. Let us see how psychology developed. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)