Fields In Psychology

Question 1

_____ psychology - Psychologists who work with patients/clients to improve their mental health (they help diagnose and treat patients and clients with psychological disorders)

Answer 1

Clinical Psychology

Question 2

___ psychology - Use interviews and psychological tests to help people who need some help. (They focus more on adjustment problems, like career or relationships. Can be in a business or college setting)

Answer 2

Counseling psychology

Question 3

____ psychology - Help students who are struggling identify the problems that are interfering with their learning and solve them (can administer tests to determine where a student should be placed or can observe classes to identify students who need additional support)

Answer 3

School Psychology

Question 4

____ psychology - Psychologists who also work in the field of K-12 education (mainly focus on course planning and developing instructional strategies. Focus more on research and development rather than meeting one on one with the students who may need it)

Answer 4

Educational psychology

Question 5

_____ psychology - Focuses on the social, physical, cognitive, and emotional development of humans throughout our life span

Answer 5

Developmental Psychology

Question 6

____ psychology - Seek to identify human characteristics and traits and how these traits shape our thinking behavior (studies disorders and how personality shaped it, gender roles, anxiety, aggression)

Answer 6

Personality psychology

Question 7

____ psychology - Studies how our behavior is influenced by social situations (Focuses on external factors, particularly the groups and people that we are around and how they influence our behavior)

Answer 7

Social psychology

Question 8

____ psychology - Focus on the research and conduct psychological experiments to better understand human behavior (usually done in a university setting, may engage in basic research)

Answer 8

Experimental Psychology

Question 9

___ ___ - Experiments that are done purely for the purpose of the research and not necessarily application

Answer 9

Basic research

Question 10

____ and ____ psychology - Employed by businesses and organizations in order to help people in the workplace. (Businesses and organizations have vested interest in a mentally healthy workforce, employees who are less stressed are more productive which helps the company earn money in the long run)

Answer 10

Industrial and Organizational Psychology

Question 11

____ psychology - Psychologists who work in the criminal justice system in order to help find and identify the perpetrators of crimes (often used as expert witnesses in trials. Usually tasked with explaining the psychology behind criminal behavior)

Answer 11

Forensic Psychology