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Areas of Psychology Flashcards

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Presents the basic and fundamental principles of human behaviour.

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General Psychology

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  • 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

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  • Most widely practiced specialisation

- It involves diagnosing and treating people with psychological problems

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Clinical Psychology

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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