ABSTRACT
VISITORS and newcomers to universities are frequently surprised to find psychologists at work in laboratories. This seems at odds with the notion of psychology as the study of the mind, and with most of the many other misconceptions about the nature of the subject. These have been known to range from the belief which leads some second-hand booksellers to classify Psychology under "The Occult", to the rather more homespun view of a multiple store which shelved its psychology texts with "Housewifery and Cookery". There are more serious doubts, however, about the propriety of considering psychology as a science; most frequently these doubts arise from a misunderstanding of what constitutes its field of study.
