PSYCH 2010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Empiricism, Psychopathy, Breakup
4 Sep 2016
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Study of aging and maturation of behavior: social. Focuses on interpersonal behavior and the role of social forces in the control of behavior. With many people present, everyone waits for someone else to take action. Better chance of getting help with fewer people. Looks at the effect of genetics, brain function, hormones, and neurotransmitters on behavior: experimental, cognitive. Looks at higher mental processes such as memory, reasoning, and problem solving: psychometrics, personality. Applied, professional areas in psychology: clinical psychology. 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. Severe such as major clinical depression and schizophrenia: counseling psychology. Training is often done in the education department. Usually trained to deal with less severe psychological problems. Often special in family, marital, or career advising o. Work in the world of industry and business.
