PSY101 L01 Vocational

Question 1

Psychometric psychologists

Answer 1

Design and evaluate tests of mental abilities, aptitudes, interests, and personality.

Question 2

Developmental psychologists

Answer 2

Focus on how people change and grow over time - physically, mentally, and socially.

Question 3

Cultural psychologists

Answer 3

Focus on how cultural rules and values affect people’s development behavior, and feelings.

Question 4

Counseling psychologists

Answer 4

Help people deal with problems of everyday life.

Question 5

School psychologists

Answer 5

Work with students, parents, and teachers to enhance students’ performance and resolve emotional difficulties.

Question 6

Industrial/organizational psychologists

Answer 6

Focus on behavior in the workplace; group decision making, employee morale, motivation, productivity, job stress, and etc.

Question 7

Social psychologists

Answer 7

Focus on social rules and roles, how groups affect attitudes and behavior, and how you are affected by your encounters with other people.

Question 8

Experimental psychologists

Answer 8

Conduct laboratory studies of learning, motivation, emotion, sensation and perception, physiology, and cognition.

Question 9

Clinical psychologists

Answer 9

Diagnose, treat, and study mental or emotional problems.

Question 10

Educational psychologists

Answer 10

Focus on psychological principles that explain learning and improvement of educational systems.