SOCI 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Applied Psychology, Clinical Psychology, Critical Thinking
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Clinical psychology : (what behavioural consequences result from disease/ trauma and how can they be treated) Educational and school psychology : (what strategies can be used to deal with problems in school) Industrial and organizational psychology : (what interventions will improve productivity and work satisfaction) Multifactorial causation of behaviour, complex network of interacting factors. People"s cultural backgrounds exert influence on their behaviour. Culture refers to widely shared customs, beliefs, values transmitted socially across generations. Nature vs nurture, originally an all or nothing proposition. Research shows both inheritance and environment influence a person"s intelligence, temperament, personality and susceptibility to psychological disorders. People"s experience of the world is highly subjective. People tend to process incoming stimulations but selectively only focus on a certain part of it. This leads to personalized experience and subjectivity. People see what they want to see/ expect to see. Scientific psychology should only study observable behaviours and relationships between environment and behaviour (criticized)