PS101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Mendelian Inheritance, Scientific Method, American Psychological Association
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What does a psychologist do: therapy = clinical psychologists, licensed doctoral degree (phd, edd, psyd), not all psychologists are therapists!! )n fact most aren"t: many psychologists are researchers (universities, applied settings, whether you want to be clinician or a researcher, the training of psychologists is research focused. Why is there so much focus on research: research allows us to determine whether what we believe to be common sense actually is true, and it helps us to explore new ideas. Types of psychologists: clinical psychologists responsible for assessment, diagnosis and treatment of serious psychological disorders, not psychiatrists, school or educational psychologists assess matters related to academic, social, linguistic or vocational problems. Types of psychologists continued: learning, forensic, social, developmental, personality, behavioural, cognitive. History of psychology: many teach/research at university, and, no, we don"t have the summer off, starts . earliest pages of recorded history, starts when people wondered about human nature and human behaviour.
