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Among all the sciences, psychology is perhaps the most mysterious to the general public, and the most prone to misconception. Even though its language and ideas have infiltrated everyday culture, most people have only a hazy idea of what the subject is about, and what psychologist actually do.
在所有的科學中，大家普遍人物心理學也許是最神秘的科學，也是最容易誤解的科學。即使它的觀點和思想已經(jīng)融入到人們的生活當中，大部分人對心理學這個學科，對心理學家糾正在干嘛，都還是只有一個模糊的想法。
For some, psychology conjures up images of people in white coats, either staffing an institution for mental disorders or conducting laboratory experiments on rate. Others may imagine a man with a middle-European accent psychoanalyzing a patient on a couch or, if film scripts are to be believed, plotting to exercise some form of mind control.
對某些人來說，心理學就是一些穿著白大褂人，在精神病機構(gòu)工作的工作人員，或者在實驗室在老鼠身上做實驗的人。其他有些人會聯(lián)想到一個中歐面貌的人在給一個沙發(fā)上病人進行精神治療，或是像電影腳本中那樣，做一些精神控制的實驗。
Although these stereotypes are an exaggeration, some true lies beneath them. It is perhaps the huge range of subjects that fall under the umbrella of psychology (and the bewildering array of terms beginning with the prefix "psych-") that creates confusion over that psychology entails; Psychologists themselves are unlikely to agree on a single definition of the word.
盡管這些對心理學的最原始的認識有一些夸張，但這底層下卻是真的事實。在心理學牽涉的引起疑惑很大一批學科都是和心理學一脈相承的（這些讓人迷惑的學科都是以“psych”開頭的）。心理學家在對心理學一詞的定義上很難達到統(tǒng)一。
“Psychology” comes from the ancient Greek psyche, meaning "soul" or "mind", and logia, a "study" or "account", which seems to sum up the broad scope of the subject, but today the word most accurately describes " the science of mind and behavior".
心理學起源于古希臘的心靈，意為“靈魂”或者“思想”，賢哲將它定義為一種包含學科所有范圍的“研究”或者“考量”，但今天心理學的最最準確的定義是：“思想和行為的科學”。
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