AP PSYCHOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Psychology is the scientific study of the mind and behavior. Psychologists are actively involved in studying and understanding mental processes, brain functions, and behavior.

Detailed explanation-2: -Watson and Edward Thorndike (and later, B.F. Skinner), behaviorism was grounded in studies of animal behavior. Behaviorists argued that psychology should be a science of behavior, not the mind, and rejected the idea that internal mental states such as beliefs, desires, or goals could be studied scientifically.

Detailed explanation-3: -Psychologists who were interested in both human and animal behavior defined psychology as a “science of human and animal behavior” or it was defined simply as the study of organism. Many psychologists argued that people are so distinct from other animals that we can only learn about people by studying people.