PSYCH 2010 Lecture 1: Psychology 101 Notes
29 Aug 2016
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Diffusion of responsibility : seeing everyone as more responsible or more trained than them to do it. Bystander effect: waiting for someone else to take action. Involved with the evaluation, diagnosis, and treatment of people with psychological disorders. Trained across the entire spectrum of disorders: mild such as motivational problems, relationship problems, smoking cessation, moderate such as phobia and ocds, severe such as major clinical depression and schizophrenia. Training is often done in the education department. Usually trained to deal with less severe psychological problem. Often specialize in family, marital, or career advising. Work in the world of industry and business. Tasks can include personnel selection, human resources, morale improvement, and productivity improvement. School psychologists strive to promote cognitive, emotional, and social development of children in schools. Primary work involves a combination of test and counselling with student, teachers, and parents. Internship: both go to a mental health facility, rotation around the wards.
