The book of Godfroy, a follower of the communication style in psychology, is the result of his work, the transfer of living experience. It is written in such a way that the reader has a feeling of ease of assimilation of the material. The book, although it is a textbook, however, is so enthralling that you certainly want to read it sooner to the end. Moreover, there is a desire to return to this material more than once. Jo does not recognize teaching in ethereal form, when the student is simply transferred knowledge in an overwhelming amount of encyclopedic material, so that students have a feeling of Sisyphean work. The book is intended for the study of psychology by future doctors, educators, psychologists and just interested in this topic.
Readership
The author turns to those who wish to gain not just a body of information on psychology, but also knowledge about how this science is important for solving the cardinal problems of our time. Godfroix's work “What is Psychology” aims to arouse in a student curiosity that goes beyond the scope of this course of lectures.
Therefore, he without any doubt tells the audience about the disputes that arise in modern science, the dynamics of psychological disciplines and the results of this development. Godfroix is not afraid to seem ignorant of any question, to talk about his own difficulties and does not create the false impression that, as a science, psychology can provide answers to solve all problems.
As a teacher, he prefers to uncover the dynamics of psychology as an evolving scientific movement that is constantly in doubt, and to show as much as possible what psychologists do if they want to be honest in their professional activities.
Why is the book interesting?
According to the scientist, in order to develop and move forward, it is necessary to reconsider your opinions and ideas. He seeks to show the reader that psychology, more than other scientific subjects, with the exception of sociology, may be dependent on the prevailing social policy. To study psychology is to learn to see the errors of society. At the same time, Godfroy, speaking openly about doubts, clearly explains how these data were drawn and how to interpret them.
Being an opponent of unscrupulousness, the psychologist does not give preference to any school. He possessed extremely independent thinking and intellectual courage. Jo draws information from various sources and focuses on the double root of human behavior - biological and cultural. Studying Godfroy’s book “What is Psychology”, the reader will get acquainted with many prominent scientists, their reasoning and theoretical calculations.
This book will be of interest to anyone who picks it up. She owes this to the author’s conviction that psychology is an exciting discipline. And before he began to teach Quebec students, Jo Godfroix taught African children, and then united under his wing classmates and played in an amateur theater, which could have been professional.
This work is an introduction to psychology. He fills the gaps in many publications about this science. The book has become and will be a desktop for a large number of scientists and teachers who want to give students thorough knowledge and arouse interest in the discipline. The reader’s path is full of exciting adventures, which I definitely want to continue! Godfroix's book, What Is Psychology, was a great success in Canada.
It shows everyone who has repeatedly tried to remove psychology from the general educational process as a highly focused discipline that its borders are much wider and it is necessary for study.
Psychology Research Objective
This science has always been interested in man himself, his depth of thought, heart movements, mind and consciousness, his imagination, his memory, thinking and communication, in other words, his inner world.
For scientists it is important to understand the causes and patterns of the origin of certain human actions, the laws of social behavior. It is extremely interesting to understand the mechanisms of the emergence of mental images, how consciousness works and what it is, where there are sources of inspiration and creativity in a person. Psychology is aimed at studying these issues, which positions itself as a science, but at the same time it is balancing on the brink of faith, art and a scientific approach.
This uncertain position of psychology is due to the fact that it has always been under the powerful pressure of social ideology. Often the development of a particular area was determined by state policy. Each state has its own canons. It is they who have the strongest influence on the development of the scientific branch. As an example:
· Denial of psychoanalysis;
· Perception of education and personality formation is one-sided;
· A look at existing human needs ...
Book Highlights
Often, science experienced a crisis, which was deepened by the difference in views and rejection of other achievements in world practice, unwillingness to use the results of natural disciplines in the field of cognition of human nature. In this regard, Godfroy’s book “What is Psychology” is very important. This is a rich lecture experience of the professor, allowing you to use this manual as an educational tool from college to university.
This book is encyclopedic. It affects all existing scientific areas of psychology and the latest achievements in its various fields. The author considers conservative views on perception, memory, and thinking. It shows what psychologists do, what main task they should solve, how to develop, boldly relies on socio-biological data when explaining the behavioral motives of people in society.
Statement of material
The work of an extraordinary psychologist attracts not only the scientific nature of the presentation, but also the interpretation of the results. The author tried to get away from politics as much as possible. He is convinced that science will become true when philosophical discussion gives way to a regular and clear experiment. Throughout the entire course, the idea of an unambiguous dependence of the laws of psychology on the mechanisms of brain activity is traced.
Finally, the material of the book is presented systematically and didactically correctly - in terms of difficulty. Godfroix's written work is a general psychology, a textbook for universities, in which each chapter begins with a presentation of the main material. Then the section is expanded with additional data “Documents”. Separate applications show a wider understanding (of brain activity and statistical analysis).
The questionnaires at the end of each chapter and the possibility of self-monitoring play a significant role. The survey can be conducted using computers, which will greatly facilitate the task of assimilation and control.
A bit of history
When the author was a student of Mark Richelle, a funny incident happened to him, which subsequently influenced his professional direction. The teacher drove him out of one of the first exams, which he had to pass.
Godfroix is about to study in Central Africa. But he had to be tested in ethnographic anthropology, and there were some significant gaps in knowledge of this subject. Mark Richelle decided that this is unacceptable for a person who wants to work soon in places where this discipline is very relevant. This subject was rarely encountered at that time when studying the compulsory program of the initial course of psychology. Jo Godfroix agreed with the teacher and accepted the challenge. He quickly studied the lost material and closely engaged in the study of this subject. This direction has become a priority for the young scientist - he devoted himself to experimental psychology, in which he greatly succeeded.
Jo proved to everyone that it is possible to be simultaneously a person of action, possessing a passionate, passionate temperament, and submit to a strictly rigid laboratory regime. The scientist showed creative imagination and was the first to conduct a study combining the prospects of ethology and experimental animal psychology. Others came to this, after only a decade.
Spending nights near the hamsters, Godfroix made the movie, which is now shown to students. After 12 years, the hamsters were replaced by Canadian squirrels, to which the professor owed a brilliant doctoral dissertation. At the same time, he worked alone in Quebec, where he taught all the time.
Differences in views
Godfroix's work, which examines general psychology in detail, is a textbook for high schools containing some documents showing non-traditional ways of research.
His opinion has significant differences with the views of the popularizer Michel de Prakontal, author of the book "Scientific deception in ten lessons." According to Godfroix, Michelle dishonors scientists from the fields of such sciences: physicists, biologists, neurophysiologists, ethologists, who, as a result of long studies, have come up with a number of hypotheses that go beyond rational science.
Jo believes that the best way that an individual and other people can use to develop critical thinking is to present as objectively as possible the course of research, the formation of theories and models that are crowding each other and striving to occupy at least some place among the humanities .
Past and Present
The author draws attention to the fact that the concepts of Descartes’s “thinking soul” and “animal mind”, Freud’s ideas about the “libido” and “subconscious” and other psychologists quoted in the book should not claim absolute truth and are to some extent “ deceivers. " Their theory still needs confirmation. In this regard, one cannot refuse to expand one's views and take into account, for example, the “holographic” hypotheses of Pribram and Bohm, the hypothesis “deep into one's own self” Lilly and others.
The scientist draws attention in his deep work to the fact that psychology cannot and should not wait for the appearance of the final theory of the functioning of the brain, and then already try to understand and act. Psychology still needs to form its own system of models, to learn how to effectively help people love, live and die.
Today, this is extremely important, since humanity cares about the accumulation of knowledge that will make it possible to separate the grain from the chaff and not stop on the way.