- Psychology is the study of the forms and laws of human experience and behavior. This includes both the normal experience and behavior of people without mental health problems and that of people with mental health problems or illnesses.
- As an empirical science, psychology is both basic and application-oriented: it strives to use scientific methods to determine the general laws of psychological processes and structures and their behavior-controlling functions in order to make scientifically well-founded proposals for changing behavior in a wide variety of practical fields to be able to. The development of suitable methodical approaches for processing the tasks mentioned is of great importance.