Boredom

Today, i have been reading up on my textbook and i learn something new. Let me try to explain this to all of you. The basic goal of a psychologist can be classified into 4 stages. They are: Describing, Explaining, Predicting and Controlling. What each of them means is as follows..

Describing
To define the situation base on facts. There should be no guessing involved and purely base on facts.
e.g. a liwei's food consumption greatly increases when he is at his apartment with nothing to do as compared to outside shopping.

Explaining
To list the factors that might be causing the behavior.
e.g. the liwei's apartment got nothing to do and boredom forces him to look for food in desperation.

Predicting
To guess it's future behavior base on the current facts and patterns and put the prediction to test.
e.g. Put a box of chocolate in the liwei's fridge and it should magically disappear in half an hour.

Controlling
To make the behavior happen or not happen.
e.g. Send the liwei some presents to slow down his habit of eating.

Heh, just joking. But those 4 stages are real. and my place is honestly a very boring place