Today introduction of psychology in our ordinary life to become very popular: we attend psychological trainings, we address the psychologist for support and we become the house psychologists who read knowledge in network. Considering that the word psychology became for us a such parasite, it would be time to understand concepts, including, in difference of everyday psychology from scientific.
Everyday psychology
The everyday psychology is giants on which there are we, pygmies. These are aphorisms, proverbs, sayings, customs and ceremonies. Besides, everyday psychology each of us intuitively owns. We draw conclusions intuitively, according to observations, reflections and own experience, it also is an example of everyday psychology.
The everyday psychology is always practical and is defined by events and conditions in which any given knowledge was developed. You for certain noticed that proverbs and national predictions often contradict each other, however everyday psychology it does not confuse, in it, frankly speaking, there is not enough logic. Practical and everyday psychology are closely connected if the everyday psychology always belongs to practical, then the last at all not for 100% consists of everyday.
Scientific psychology
The scientific psychology exists proceeding from the purpose everything to generalize and to output the rule, applicable to all. It is based on logic and is under construction on experiments. Unlike everyday, does not play a role in scientific psychology the details surrounding an event: here all rules exist regardless of circumstances.
In scientific psychology everything naturally and consists of axioms.
Knowledge got by experimental methods collects, and new knowledge follow and expand the predecessors.
There is each psychologist
Considering that the main method of everyday psychology is a transfer of own experience, abundance of experts, always ready to come to the rescue will be the main sign of this direction. At everyone the past and the knowledge of life, and each of us is the expert of own life. As a result, in everyday psychology all pros, however councils on everything 100 are not always effective in our hands. The reason is simple – the everyday psychology is situational.
Let's not give an assessment to these two methods of knowledge and transfer of knowledge. All of them are in own way good and useful, and a difficult minute, as usual, there is neither everyday, nor scientific psychologist nearby.