Introduction to Psychology

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Introduction to Psychology

• Becoming Familiar
• with the
• Field of Psychology

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Psychology Binder

• Class Requirement
• 1 Subject Notebook (70 pages) college rule
• Pens/Pencils
• Folder with 2 pockets
• Four Major Sections/Areas of Psychology
• States of Consciousness
• Sensation and Perception
• Personality
• Abnormal Psychology

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American Psychological Association (APA)

• Fields of Psychology
• 47 Divisions in 1993 (page 3 of textbook)
• 53 in 2002
• 7 Major Fields
• Developmental Psychology
• Physiological Psychology
• Experimental Psychology
• Personality Psychology
• Clinical and Counseling Psychology
• Social Psychology
• Industrial and organizational Psychology

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Developmental Psychology

• Mental growth from conception to death

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Physiological Psychology

• Behavior influenced by physical and chemical
  phenomena in the body

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Experimental Psychology

• Learning, perception, memory, motivation and
  other basic processes

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Personality Psychology

• Individual differences in traits/characteristics

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Clinical/Counseling Psychology

• Clinical diagnosis, cause and treatment of
  psychological disorders
• Counseling normal problems of adjustment

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Social Psychology

• The influence of people on one another

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Occupational Psychology

• Psychology applied to the workplace.
• (training, in-service looking to improve
  productivity)

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Educational Psychology

• Applying methods of learning, remembering and
  thinking to the school setting.
• (train teachers, develop curriculum, identify and
  aid students with learning/emotional difficulties)

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Science of Psychology

• Psychology
• Science of behavior and mental processes
• Use of the Scientific Method
• Collect data through careful, systematic
  observation
• Explain what they have observed by developing
  theories
• Make predictions based on those theories
• Systematically test those predictions through
  additional observation and experiments to
  determine whether they are correct

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Scientific Method

• Describe
• Understand
• Predict
• Control
• All about Behavior!!!