Psychology, as defined, comprises a number of different kinds of enterprises,

so different that they may seem to have nothing in common. One psychologist
is engaged in vocational guidance, he spends his day talking to high school
students, studying their academic records and their test scores and from these,
in principle, showing the student how to clarify his own ideas about his future
training and occupation. Another spends his day studying delayed reaction in
goldfish or the navigation of bats. Other psychologists are assisting in the
diagnosis of neurotic patients, doing research on the childhood experiences
that contribute to neurosis, or taking part in combined research on the effects
of tranquillisers. But all such disparate activities have this in common, that the
methods derive from the same fundamental training in the procedures and
conceptions of academic psychology, and that the worker is either putting the
conceptions to practical use or trying to improve on them (or both).