Fields of Psychology

Fields of Research Psychology

Abnormal Psychology is the study of maladaptive abnormal behavior in order to

describe, predict, explain, and change abnormal patterns of functioning.

Personality Psychology studies enduring psychological patterns of behavior, traits,

characteristics, thought and emotion commonly called an individual's personality. It focuses on topics such as self-concept, aggression, gender roles, etc. the life span, in particular the intellectual, cognitive, neural, social, or moral development of the person.

Developmental Psychology focuses on understanding human development throughout Biological Psychology (Behavioral Neuroscience), or Biopsychology, is the scientific
study of the biological bases of behavior and mental states, especially how the brain functions in order to understand behavior.

Cognitive Psychology studies cognition, the mental processes such as thought, memory, Comparative Psychology refers to the study of the behavior and mental life of animals
other than human beings, with strong emphasis about evolutionary links and to gain insight into human psychology via animal models.

intelligence, creativity and language, underlying behavior. It uses information processing as a framework for understanding the mind.

Social Psychology is the study of the nature and causes of human social behavior, with

an emphasis on how people think towards each other and how they relate to each other. It aims to understand how we make sense of social situations (e.g. influence of others on an individual's behavior or the formation of attitudes and stereotypes about other people). It also investigates social behavior such as aggression, prejudice, love and conformity.

Fields of Applied Psychology Applied Psychology encompasses both psychological research that is designed to help individuals overcome practical problems and the application of this research in applied settings. Much of applied psychology research is utilized in other fields, such as business management, product design, nutrition, law and clinical medicine. Applied Psychology includes:

Clinical Psychology specializes in the evaluation, diagnosis and treatment of behavioral,

emotional, mental and other psychological problems and disorders. Clinical psychologists, unlike psychiatrists, do not prescribe medications and drugs.

Counseling Psychology specializes in facilitating personal and interpersonal functioning

across the lifespan with a focus on emotional, social, vocational, educational, healthrelated, developmental, and organizational concerns. serious problems and everyday stress rather than psychopathology, such as marital, behavioral or academic.

Counseling Psychology differs from clinical psychology in that it is focused more on less Relationship counseling, also referred to as "relationship education", includes

psychologists, psychiatrists, and social workers. It deals with ordinary human relationship successes and failures in concrete terms.

 Educational Psychology is the study of how humans learn in educational settings, the
effectiveness of educational interventions, the psychology of teaching, and the social psychology of schools as organizations.

School Psychology is the discipline dedicated to helping young people succeed

academically, socially, and emotionally. School psychologists collaborate with educators, parents, and other professionals to create safe, healthy, and supportive learning environments for all students that strengthen connections between home and school. They are trained to be experts in educational and behavioral assessment, intervention, prevention, consultation, and research. law enforcement.

Legal Psychology is the application of psychological principles in areas of lawmaking and Forensic Psychology involves a clinical analysis of a particular individual and an
assessment of some specific psycho-legal question.

Health Psychology is the application of psychological theory and research to health,

illness, health care and health care delivery system. Whereas clinical psychology focuses on mental health and neurological illness, health psychology is concerned with the psychology of a much wider range of health-related behavior including healthy eating, the doctor-patient relationship, a patient's understanding of health information, and beliefs about illness. affect our interaction with tools and objects in the environment. The goal of research in human factors psychology is to better design objects by taking into account the limitations and biases of human mental processes and behavior both the workers and the organization that employ them. of employees. individuals.

Human Factor Psychology is the study of how cognitive and psychological processes

Both Industrial and Organizational Psychology deal with the workplace, focusing on Industrial Psychology focuses on improving, evaluating, and predicting job performance Organizational Psychology focuses on how organizations impact and interact with Industrial and organizational psychologists look at questions regarding things such as
who to hire, how to define and measure successful job performance, how to prepare people to be more successful in their jobs, how to create and change jobs so that they are safer and make people happier, and how to structure the organization to allow people to achieve their potential.

Experimental Psychology involves areas in which psychologists often conduct basic

research and use an experimental strategy. Among areas that experimental psychologists study are sensation and perception, memory, learning, motivation and emotion

Pseudopsychologies

Pseudopsychologies are unreliable approaches that do not use the scientific method
Examples of pseudopsychologies include:

Astrology: system that tries to relate personality to the movement or positions of the stars Palmistry: idea that a persons character can be read from the lines on their palms Psychokinesis: notion that humans can move objects through mental concentration Follicology: notion that personality characteristics are related to hair color