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The long history of psychology

Psychologists try to understand why people act the way they do, to help people to better understand themselves, and also to help people change their behavior to achieve their own goals. Broadly, psy­chology is the systematic study of behavior and experience. The term psychology derives from the Greek roots psyche, meaning "soul" or "mind", and logos, meaning "word"; thus psychology is literally the study of the mind and soul.

Many psychological concerns date back to the philosophers of an­cient Greece. Although psychology has moved away from philosophy in its methods, it continues to be motivated by some of the same issues. Three of the most profound questions are:

– free will versus determinism;

– the mind-brain problem;

– the nature-nurture issue.

Beginning with the Renaissance period in Europe, people began to look for scientific explanations for the phenomena they observed. Then scientists analyzed the motion of subjects in terms of pushes and pulls and other laws of nature. That is, they made an assumption called determinism, the assumption that everything that happens has a cause or determinant, in the observable world. Is the same true for human behavior? Each of us is a part of the physical world. Our brain is made of chemical compounds that are subject to the same laws of nature as anything else. According to determinist assumption of human behavior, everything we do has a cause.

In the late 1880s and early 1990s, psychologists were still unsure: should we try to study the nature of human consciousness, or should we skip conscious experience and instead concentrate on describing what people actually do? Many of the changes that have happened during the history of psychology were the changes in investigators' decisions.

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The geographical position of ukraine

Ukraine's area is 603,700 square kilometers: from North to South is 893 km, from West to East — 1316 km. It's larger than France (544 ths sq. km), Spain (505 ths sq. km), Sweden (450 ths sq. km), Germany (356,3 ths sq. km), Poland (312,7 ths sq. km).

Ukraine has inland and marine borders of 7590 km. The inland border passes for 5631 km and consists of three areas: Western, Eastern, and Northern. The length of marine border is 1959 km. Ukraine borders on Russian Federation (inland border of 2063 km), Belarus (975 km), Poland (542,5 km), Slovakia (98 km), Hungary (135 km), Romania (608 km) and Moldova (1194 km).

Ukraine is mainly a vast plain with no natural boundaries except the Carpathian Mountains in the west and the Black Sea in the south. The Dnipro River with its many tributaries unifies central Ukraine economically, connecting the Baltic coast countries with the Black Sea and the Mediterranean Sea. The mouth of the Danube River provides an outlet for Ukrainian trade to the Balkans, Austria, and Germany.

Central and Southern Ukraine are primarily steppes with fertile black soils exceptionally well-suited for grain farming. In the east there is the industrial heartland known as the Greater Donbas, or Donetsk Basin containing large mineral deposits.

Northern and Western Ukraine' are hilly, forested areas with many picturesque mountain resorts. There are two mountain ranges — the Carpathians on the western border, where winter sports centres are very popular, and the Crimean range in the south, which divides the Crimean peninsular. The Crimea is a favourite destination not only for Ukrainian tourists, but also for citizens of other states of the former Soviet Union, as well as Eastern and Western Europe.