Epistemological Approaches to Psychology

Psychology is a science, even if it is a new science as it received a formal recognition in the nineteen century with the work of scientists interested by the study of the human psyche. Psychology can be defined as the scientific study of psychic phenomena, empirical knowledge or intuitive feelings, ideas, behaviors of individuals and their family, all ways of thinking, feeling and acting that characterize a person, animal or a group. It aims to investigate the psyche in terms of structure and function. It therefore seeks to describe, assess and explain the mental processes as a whole taking into account expressions of subjectivity. The topic is complex and There is a lot to be gained by studying a topic in psychology from more than one perspective. In this paper, we will study three perspectives: the evolutionary, the cognitive and the social ones