Psychology is the scientific study of behavior and mental processes. It includes several subfields:
- Developmental psychology studies human development across the lifespan from conception to death.
- Social psychology focuses on interpersonal behavior and how social forces influence behavior.
- Physiological psychology examines the biological influences on behavior, including the brain, nervous system, hormones, and neurotransmitters.
- Abnormal psychology studies psychological disorders, including their causes, symptoms, and treatments.
Psychology is the scientific study of behavior and mental processes. It includes several subfields:
- Developmental psychology studies human development across the lifespan from conception to death.
- Social psychology focuses on interpersonal behavior and how social forces influence behavior.
- Physiological psychology examines the biological influences on behavior, including the brain, nervous system, hormones, and neurotransmitters.
- Abnormal psychology studies psychological disorders, including their causes, symptoms, and treatments.
Psychology is the scientific study of behavior and mental processes. It includes several subfields:
- Developmental psychology studies human development across the lifespan from conception to death.
- Social psychology focuses on interpersonal behavior and how social forces influence behavior.
- Physiological psychology examines the biological influences on behavior, including the brain, nervous system, hormones, and neurotransmitters.
- Abnormal psychology studies psychological disorders, including their causes, symptoms, and treatments.
Psychology is the scientific study of behavior and mental processes. It includes several subfields:
- Developmental psychology studies human development across the lifespan from conception to death.
- Social psychology focuses on interpersonal behavior and how social forces influence behavior.
- Physiological psychology examines the biological influences on behavior, including the brain, nervous system, hormones, and neurotransmitters.
- Abnormal psychology studies psychological disorders, including their causes, symptoms, and treatments.
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SCOPE OF PSYCHOLOGY
BASIC PSYCHOLOGY: It is aimed at contributing the knowledge of behavior
Developmental Psychology: It studies the human development (ie) physical, emotional, social, moral, language and personality development across the life span that is from conception to death. Social Psychology: The field focuses on interpersonal behavior and the role of social forces in governing behavior. Physiological Psychology: Examines the influences of genetic factors on behavior and role of brain, nervous system, endocrine system and bodily chemicals like the neuro transmitters in the regulation of behavior. Abnormal Psychology: It studies the models, causes, classification diagnosis and treatment of individuals with psychological disorders mostly in classroom settings. Experimental Psychology: It deals chiefly to laboratory research on basic psychological processes including Perception, Learning, Memory, Thinking, Motivation and Emotion. Psychometrics: It is concerned with the measurement of behavior and capacities usually through the development of psychological tests. Cognitive Psychology: It mainly focuses on Higher Mental Processes such as Memory, Reasoning, Information processing, Language, Decision Making etc. Personality Psychology: The field is interested in describing and understanding individual’s consistency in behavior which represents their personality. APPLIED PSYCHOLOGY: We make use of various fields of basic psychology to improve the quality of life of the human beings in various settings. Clinical Psychology: It is concerned with the evaluation, diagnosis and treatment of individuals with psychological disorders. Counselling Psychology: It overlaps with clinical psychology in that specialist in both areas engage in similar activities – Interviewing, Testing and Providing Therapy. Educational Psychology: It is mainly devoted to the understanding of the different aspects of the Teaching – Learning Process. Application of Principles, Techniques and methods of psychology to the Teaching – Learning Process. Industrial Psychology: It is the study of individuals at work in industry and in other business and commercial organizations. It is concerned with Recruitment, Selection and Placement of workers, Working conditions, Principles of training, Physiological, Psychological and social factors affecting individual efficiency. Organizational Psychology: It is the study and to solve the different organizational problems. Consumer Psychology: it deals with the behavior that consumers display in searching for purchasing, using, evaluating and disposing of products, services and ideas that they expect will satisfy their needs. Health Psychology: That deals with the role of psychological factors in promotion of health and prevention of illness. Environmental Psychology: It deals with the effects on behavior of Crowding, Noise and Air pollution. Forensic Psychology: It is an applied psychology to the legal system Sports and Exercise Psychology: Applied Psychology to athletic activity and exercises and it considers the role of motivation. Psychology of Women: It deals with Psychological factors relating to women’s behavior and development, it tries to explain various issues like discrimination against women, causes of violence and so on.