PSYC 288 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Counseling Psychology, Clinical Psychology, Cognitive Psychology
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Career areas: apa lists over 50 divisions of psych. Practice vs research: practice, counseling, therapy, etc. Providing direct services: research, conducts studies to help better understand how humans and animals operate, research, basic, understanding basic processes (ex: learning, applied. Apply these principles to real world issues and social problems (ex: education, poverty, prejudice, concussion) Study psychopathology or treatment effects: ex: symptoms and signs of mental illness, causes and consequences, how to diagnose, counseling psychology. Fuzzy boundary between clinical and counseling: normal variations vs diagnosable disorders. Includes adjustments, relationship issues, career choices: developmental psychology, human development, growth, and change across the lifespan, cognitive development, emotional development, social development, childhood, adolescence, aging, cognitive psychology. Thinking, cognition, learning: sensation and perception, basic cognitive processes: learning concept information, reasoning. Studies people and their relationships with others, with groups, and with society: self, attitudes, law psychology. Psychology applied to law and legal issues: eyewitness testimony; jury processes; who is likely to reoffend, neuroscience and behavior.
