Areas of Psychology

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Presents the basic and fundamental principles of human behaviour.

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General Psychology

Question 2

• Focuses on clinical descriptions
• Examines a range of psychological disorders, including anxiety disorders, personality disorders, sexual disorders, mood disorders, schizophrenia, and organic mental disorders

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Abnormal Psychology

Question 3

• Most widely practiced specialisation

- It involves diagnosing and treating people with psychological problems

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Clinical Psychology

Question 4

Foster and improve normal human functioning across the life span by helping people solve the problems, make the decisions and cope with the stresses of everyday life

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Counselling Psycholog

Question 5

Studies what the characteristics make individuals different from one another, how and why.

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Personality Psychology

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Offshoot of personality psychology that focuses on mental phenomena by studying it in terms of drives and motives as causes of behaviour

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Dynamic Psychology

Question 7

Concerned with the methods and techniques used in acquiring and applying psychological knowledge

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Psychometrics and Quantitative Psychology

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• Conducts research on and often teach about a variety of basic behavioural processes.
• Studies the basic processes by which humans take in, store, retrieve, express and apply knowledge.

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Experimental Psychology

Question 9

Concerned with the genesis (evolution and development), control and consequences of a broad range of behavioural patterns.

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Comparative Psychology/Zoological/Animal

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• Concerned with everyday behaviour in natural settings
  Seeks to understand the factors that contribute to normal and abnormal behavior in these settings
• Concentrates the efforts on group of people who are not mentally ill (but may be at risk of becoming so) or on the population in general

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Community Psychology

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Studies how our beliefs, feelings and behaviours are affected by the presence of other persons

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Social Psychology

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Concerned with relations between psychological processes and physical environment

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Environmental Psychology

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• Concerns with how one feels about being a member of his/her racial group or ethnic group
• Studies the factors that promote or hinder a cultural minority’s positive development, and in association with psychological well-being and academic achievement

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Racial/Ethnic Psychology

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Studies the psychological and social factors affecting women’s development and behavior

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Psychology of Women

Question 15

Studies human development across the life span, from newborn to aged
Interested int he description, measurement and explanation of age-related changes in behaviour; stages of emotional development

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Developmental pyschology (Genetics)

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Focuses on children’s growth and changes in all areas that occur from birth to adolescence

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Child Psychology

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Focuses primarily on the various theories regarding the social, cognitive and biological development of adolescents

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Adolescent Psychology

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Studies adult development in the domains of cognition, personality and social-emotional processes

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Adult Psychology

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Studies the factors associated with adult development and aging

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Psychology of Aging

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• Practitioners, researchers and educators concerned with the prevention of family conflict, the treatment of marital and family problems and the maintenance of normal family-functioning.
• Concentrates on the family structure and the interaction between members rather than on the individual

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Family Psychology

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Study how people learn, and they design the methods and materials used to educate people of all ages

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Educational Psychology

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Help educators and others promote the intellectual, social and emotional development of children

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School Psychology

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Are involved in analyzing crime evidence and adding law enforcement agencies in criminal investigations

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Forensic or Legal Psychology

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Applies psychological methods and knowledge to the study and modification of the behaviour and mental processes of people involved in sports

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Sports and Exercise Psychology

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- The psychological science which studies cognition, the mental processes that are hypothesized to underline behaviour - Specifically, it studies how humans acquire thoughts and ideas, how humans use knowledge over time It accepts the use of scientific methods and rejects introspection as a valid method of investigation, unlike phenomenological methods such as Freudian Psychology

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Cognitive Psychology

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Concerned with psychology's contribution to the promotion and maintenance of good health and the prevention and treatment of illness

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Health Psychology

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Working with people who have suffered a physical deprivation or loss, such as cerebral palsy, or autism, either at birth or through later damage such as a stroke or accident

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Rehabilitation Psychology

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- Investigates the relation between physical systems and behaviour - Neuropsychologists also diagnose and treat disturbances related to suspected dysfuntions of the central nervous system and treat patients by teaching them new ways to acquire and process information- a technique known as cognitive retraining

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Neuropsychology and Psychobiology

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- Is a multidisciplinary endeavour concerned with designing for human use - Human factors researchers study the human machine interface

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Human Factors Psychology

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- Concerned with the relation between people and work

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Industrial/Organization Psychology

Question 31

interests are in consumer's reactions to a company's products or services

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Consumer's Psychology

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concerned with improving the interaction between humans and their working environments, including jobs and the context in which they are performed

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Human Engineering psychology

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develop and validate procedures to select and evaluate personnel

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Personnel Psychology

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study of psychological aspects of work-related behaviour and experience

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Vocational Psychology

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- Contributes to space missions - Ensuring the physical safety of a space facility from human error or aberrant behaviour - Maximizing indvidual and grou productivity

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Space Psychology

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- Intimately involved in testing results for intelligence and aptitude for military specializations and helping to find more effective ways of training them - Identifies people who might prove emotionally unstable in the military

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Military Psychology