MODULE 1: PSYCHOLOGY AT WORK Flashcards
is the scientific study of behavior and mental processes.
Psychology
is the subfield of psychology that focuses on how the brain and the nervous system, as well as other biological aspects of the body, determine behavior.
Behavioral Neuroscience
is the branch of psychology that studies the processes of sensing, perceiving, learning, and thinking about the world.
Experimental psychology
focuses on higher mental processes, including thinking, memory, reasoning, problem solving, judging, decision making, and language.
Cognitive psychology
studies how people grow and change from the moment of conception through death.
Developmental psychology
focuses on the consis- tency in people’s behavior over time and the traits that differentiate one person from another.
Personality psychology
explores the relationship between psycho- logical factors and physical ailments or disease.
Health psychology
is the basis of all psychological research and is used to find valid answers.
The scientific method
examines the biological basis of behavior.
Behavioral neuroscience
goal of psychology
to describe, predict, and explain human behavior and mental processes
studies the inheritance of traits related to behavior.
Behavioral genetics
deals with the study, diagnosis, and treatment of psychological disorders.
Clinical psychology
the study of higher mental processes.
Cognitive psychology
focuses primarily on educational, social, and
career adjustment problems.
Counseling psychology
investigates the similarities and differences in psychological functioning in and across various cultures and ethnic groups.
Cross-cultural psychology
examines how people grow and change from the moment of conception through death.
Developmental psychology
concerned with teaching and learning processes, such as the relationship between motivation and school performance.
Educational psychology
considers the relationship between people and their physical environment.
Environmental psychology
considers how behavior is influenced by our genetic inheritance from our ancestors.
Evolutionary psychology
studies the processes of sensing, perceiving, learning, and thinking about the world.
Experimental psychology
focuses on legal issues, such as determining the accuracy of witness memories.
Forensic psychology
explores the relationship between psychological factors and physical ailments or disease.
Health psychology
psychology of the workplace.
Industrial/organizational psychology
focuses on the consistency in people’s behavior over time and the traits that differentiate one person from another.
Personality psychology
assessing large-scale programs, such as the Head Start preschool program, to determine whether they are effective in meeting their goals.
Program evaluation
focuses on issues such as discrimination against women and the causes of violence against women.
Psychology of women
devoted to counseling children in elementary and secondary schools who have academic or emotional problems.
School psychology
people’s thoughts, feelings, and actions are affected by others.
Social psychology
athletic activity and exercise.
Sport psychology
considers how behavior is influenced by our genetic inheritance from our ancestors.
Evolutionary psychology
suggests that the chemical coding of information in our cells not only determines traits such as hair color and race but also holds the key to understanding a broad variety of behaviors that helped our ancestors survive and reproduce.
Evolutionary approach
The Origin of Species (1859)
Charles Darwin
suggested that a process of natural selection leads to the survival of the fittest and the development of traits that enable a species to adapt to its environment.
Charles Darwin
the study of how people’s thoughts, feel- ings, and actions are affected by others.
Social psychology
concentrate on such diverse topics as human aggression, liking and loving, persuasion, and conformity.
Social psychologists
focuses on the bio- logical mechanisms, such as genes and chromosomes, that enable inherited behavior to unfold.
Behavioral Genetics
It focuses on the origin of psychological disorders in biological factors.
Clinical neuropsychology
