PSY 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Naturalistic Observation

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 1101
• Professor: Christophe Andre Fortin

Document Summary

What is a perspective: the way of viewing a subject. Examples of specialties in psychology: clinical, counseling, cognitive, developmental, educational, social, personality. Side-notes: more than one specialty can be used in the treatment of one individual because many aspects (like the environment) can influence people"s mental health. For example, a firefighter that is getting bullied by his peers for ptsd will need clinical treatment as well as work changes to get better. You can find psychologist in many fields like advertisement because the understanding of the human mind is always useful. Requirements for psychologist: critical thinking: process that examines, evaluate and assesses an issue objectively to form a conclusion, curiosity, skepticism: the ability to question. Example: even thought a lot of people think it"s true, the notion that smiling will trick your mind into thinking that you are happy is false: humility: it"s easy to fall in love with your own theory.