PSYC 1011 Lecture : Psychology.docx
5 Jul 2014
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Social processes: science of the mind, extremely diverse field, clinical issues and mental illness, personality what makes you, you, developmental issues how behaviors change as we age, cognition and problem solving how we think, biological basis of behavior, goals of psychology (pied, describe, predict. Most psychologists go into clinical or counseling: counseling deals with personal problems, developmental change physically, cognitively and socially, educational the educational process, experimental study all psychological processes, cognitive all aspects of cognition, industrial organizational work settings, psychobiology biological aspects, social how we interact with others, forensic, health, behavioral, where psychologists work, most work at universities or other academic settings. Next is hospitals, next is business and government agencies: very few work full time in private practice, more are working in non profit and with policies, psychology has its roots in philosophy but, unlike philosophy, psychologists test their theories, seven key themes (stem cans, psychology is empirical.
