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PSYCHOLOGY
Psychology- is the scientific study of behavior and mental processes. The science of mental life. Study of mental activity. Study of internal experience. Is also defined as the study of human beings- how they behave, how they feel, how they think, how they adjust or fail to adjust, how they get along with one another, and how they become the individuals that they are.

BRANCHES OF PSYCHOLOGY
Clinical Psychology The largest specialty in psychology. The diagnosis and treatment of behavioral disorders those range from mild to very severe: mental illness, juvenile delinquency, criminal behavior, drug addiction, mental retardation, marital and family conflict, and other adjustment problems.

Biopsychology The branch of psychology that specializes in the biological bases of behavior.

Experimental Psychology The branch of psychology that studies the processes of sensing, perceiving, learning, and thinking about the world.

Developmental Psychology The branch of psychology that studies how people grow and change throughout the course of their lives.

Personality Psychology The branch of psychology that studies consistency and change in a persons behavior overtime, as well as the individual traits that differentiate the behavior of one person from another when each confronts the same situation.

Health Psychology Branch of psychology that explores the relationship of psychological factors and physical ailments or disease.

Counseling Psychology It focuses on educational, social, and career adjustment problems.

Educational Psychology Branch of psychology that considers how the educational process affects students.

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School Psychology -

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The specialties are devoted to assessing children in elementary and secondary schools who have academic or emotional problems and in developing solutions to such problems.

Social Psychology It studies how peoples thoughts, feelings, and actions are affected by others.

Industrial-Organizational Psychology Branch of psychology that studies the psychology of the workplace, considering productivity, job satisfaction, and decision making.

Cross-Cultural Psychology Branch of psychology that investigates the similarities and differences in psychological functioning in various cultures and ethnic groups.

Engineering Psychology In this branch of psychology, the engineering psychologist seek to make the relationship between people and machine as satisfactory as possible- to design machines so that human errors are minimized.

Community Psychology It focuses on mental health in the community rather than in the individual patient.

Environmental Psychology The environmental psychologists are concerned with environmental issues: noise problem, air and water pollution, overcrowding, and the psychologically optimal design of working and living areas.

Forensic Psychology The forensic psychologists work within the legal, judicial and correctional systems in a variety of ways.

Psychometrics It is about identifying the characteristics they want to measure, developing the test, and then developing statistical methods to interpret the scores.

Computer Science Psychology Is all about planning the design and data analysis of large scale experiments and surveys that require the kind of complex calculations that can only be done with a computer.

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SCHOOLS OF THOUGHTS IN PSYCHOLOGY

School of Psychology
Structuralism

Time Period
Late 19th century to early 20th century

Basic Belief

Technique Used

The structure of mind Analytic is of prime introspection, importance. reaction-time experiments. The uses and functional of the mind are more important than its structure. The whole is greater than the sum of its parts. Mental tests, questionnaires, objectives observations. Studies in perception

Functionalism

Late 19th century to early 20th century

Gestalt Psychology

Early 20th century to present Late 19th century to present Early 20th century to present Mid-20th century to present

Psychoanalysis

Behavior is controlled Clinical observation. by powerful unconscious urges. Psychology should focus on observable events and behaviors. Psychology should focus on uniquely human experiences. Psychology should focus on how the mind acquires stores and processes information. Scientific method, conditioning Discussion of feelings.

Behaviorism

Humanistic Psychology

Cognitive Psychology Present

Experiments in memory, thinking, information processing.