Psychological meaning of psychology

Abstract

The objective of this study was to know what psychology means for people, since nowadays more and more paradigms are created about what psychology is. Today, there are several occupations that seem or appear to be like psychology, or that people, due to lack of information, can get confused with it. The present investigation corresponds to a descriptive study, with a non-experimental cross-sectional design. For the population, we worked with three samples, one was 35 students from the Autonomous Mexico State University (UAEMex), Tejupilco Professional Academic Unit who are studying a degree in psychology, another was 35 professionals between the UAEMex and the National Council for Teaching and Research in Psychology (CNEIP) who exercise their role as psychologists, and the other, 35 adults who had an occupation other than psychology, either profession or trade. The Natural Semantic Networks technique was used, whose main purpose is to approach the study of meaning in a natural way, the word PSYCHOLOGY was used as a stimulus and the phrases “Psychology is useful for …” and “Psychology is …” as illustrative sentences. to guide them to define the stimulus. For the results, the word that was repeated the most in the three samples was the defining word Help. This leads to saying that for people the first thing that comes to mind when they think of psychology is helping.

Keywords:

Meaning, psychology, semantics, people, natural