PSYCH 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Reuptake, Random Assignment, Managed Care
14 Jun 2018
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PSYC WEEK #1
Perspectives in Psychology
• Classification of Psychologists
o Practitioner
▪ Kind of person
▪ Therapy
▪ Counseling
o Academic
▪ Colleges
▪ Teaching
▪ Journal articles
o Researchers
▪ by industry business government
▪ working in think tanks
▪ most of time coming up with study designs research methods
• Research in Psychology
o Basic •
▪ Lays down the foundation of understanding
▪ Tests and creates theories
▪ Adds to the general understanding of psychology
▪ pretty boring articles
▪ understand phenomena
▪ lay down foundation
▪ • Example: ____what characteristics make up bipolar
disorders?_______________
o Applied
o Solves practical problems
o Uses psychological knowledge and theories to test solutions to
problems
o Creates treatments and interventions
o How to fix it?
o Example: ___how treat and take care of bipolar
disorders?____________________
At universities → basic
Applied clinical settings
• Subfields in Psychology
o Clinical Psychologists:
▪ Largest group of practitioners
▪ Involved in the diagnosis and treatment of psychological disorders
▪ Duties include psychological testing, interviewing and therapy
▪ When you think of the word of psychology think of them
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▪ Therapy and some drug interventions
o Counseling Psychologists:
▪ step back from clinical
▪ Often work with clientele whose problems are of a moderate degree
▪ Many counseling psychologists specialize in marital or family
counseling
▪ General problems in life
▪ People and family issues
▪ Understanding best route in career
▪ Away from clinical mental illness
o School Psychologists:
o Concerned with social, intellectual and emotional development of
elementary and secondary students
o Work with children, parents and teachers
o Often test students for special programs
o Involved with working at applied level
o Problem at school
o Behavioral problems
o Educational Psychologists:
o Involved in teacher training, curriculum design and other related
educational processes
o More of the basic research
o Best way to teach
o How to design curriculum to help students learn
o Community Psychologists:
o Work to modify social and physical environments that are healthy for
all people
o Change the environment, not the person
o Rare side
o Go out in environment and figure out how to create healthy
environment
o How to make people happy
o Example: you have children look into neighborhoods, they figure out
what make people most healthy in their physical environment
o Industrial/Organizational Psychologists:
o Work in business and industry
o Attempt to improve productivity
o May develop employee selection programs, work with advertisers,
study consumer behavior or design equipment
o How to make things function well in business
o More money
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o Spend time consulting with firms and organization
o How to make employees happier and more productive
o Social Psychologists:
▪ Experimental psychologists who study groups and social
situations
▪ Study topics such as conformity, obedience and leadership
style
▪ How groups function
▪ Lumping everyone in a group and saying this is what would
happen in social situation
▪ What makes good leaders
▪ Conform
o Personality Psychologists
▪ Study individual differences in personality and corresponding
behaviors
▪ Look for human universals in differences (e.g., do all the same
characteristics make up extraverted people everywhere?)
▪ more to this not everyone will conform
▪ not everyone will have same leadership styles
▪ understand what makes people different
▪ why do some conform and others dont
o Positive Psychologists
▪ Experimental psychologists who study the strengths and
virtues that help individuals and communities thrive
▪ more popular now
▪ trying to figure out how to make people happier
▪ what things can you do In peoples lives to make them happier
o Developmental Psychologists:
▪ Experimental psychologists who typically research behavior
changes occurring across the lifespan that are due to
maturation and development
▪ more popular
▪ how people change and develop over lifetime
▪ we need to look at each person over lifespan
▪ survey isnt enough
o Psychometric Psychologists:
▪ Specialize in the measurement of behavior
▪ Particularly skilled at using statistical procedures to develop
reliable and valid tests
▪ most important
▪ concerned with way studies designed
▪ and way data is analyzed
▪ sharp on reviewing work and making sure information is
accurate
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Document Summary
Perspectives in psychology: classification of psychologists, practitioner, kind of person, therapy, counseling, academic, colleges, teaching. Researchers: by industry business government, working in think tanks, most of time coming up with study designs research methods, research in psychology, basic . Adds to the general understanding of psychology: lays down the foundation of understanding, pretty boring articles, understand phenomena, example: ____what characteristics make up bipolar lay down foundation disorders?______________, applied. Example: ___how treat and take care of bipolar disorders?____________________ Involved in the diagnosis and treatment of psychological disorders: duties include psychological testing, interviewing and therapy, when you think of the word of psychology think of them, therapy and some drug interventions. Counseling psychologists: step back from clinical, many counseling psychologists specialize in marital or family. Often work with clientele whose problems are of a moderate degree counseling: general problems in life, people and family issues, understanding best route in career, away from clinical mental illness, school psychologists:
