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- In the early days, psychology was focused on
- psychological testing
- Impact of WW2
- increase in deman of clinicians
- Areas in Applied Psychology
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Clinical Psychology
Counseling Psychology
School Psychology
Industrial Organizational Psychology - Clinical Psychology
- relationships, severe mental illnesses
- Counseling Psychology
- adjustment problems, career counseling
- School Psychology
- improve curriculum, train teachers, work as mediators
- Industrial Organizational Psychology
- business, train emplyees, find most effective work method
- Cognitive is
- mental processes involved in acquiring knowledge.
- Jean Piaget
- focused on stages of chilhood development.
- Biological Perspective says
- Human and animal ehavior can be expalined in tersms of bodily structures and biochemical processes that influence an organisms behavior.
- research areas in psychology
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developemental psychology
social
Experimental
physiological
cognitive
personality
psychometrics - Physiological deals with
- genetic factors, sensory, mind and body connection, hormonal effects
- Cognitive deals with
- higher mental processes, positive and negative thoughts
- Personality deals with
- consistency in behavior and character traits
- Psychometrics deals with
- assessment tests, reliability and variability of these measurements