Psychology & Consciousness

Psychology is mainly concerned with behaviorism . It does not address the question of consciousness and treats the brain as a "black box". In general, psychologists have no particular interest in how the human brain is constructed, how it works or how it evolved. Francis Crick writes in The Astonishing Hypothesis that academic psychology "denied the usefulness of consciousness as a psychological concept...partly because experiments involving introspection did not appear to be leading anywhere and partly because it was hoped psychology would become more scientific by studying behavior."