PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Clinical Psychology, Developmental Psychology, Wilhelm Wundt

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100
• Professor: Jordan Poppenk

Document Summary

Identify several fields in which psychologists may work. Schools, industry, government, corrections, private, research, teach, advertising, communications, business and human resources and governmental and community service organizations. Researchers in developmental psychology, neuroscience, perception, social personality. Professors, advertising, communication, human resources, governmental and community service jobs. Describe the roles of psychological research, including the different types of psychologists and the problems they study. Forensic: relationships between psychology and the law. Environmental: people and surroundings, natural and created environments. Clinical: assesses, diagnoses and treats individuals suffering from psychological distress and mental illness. Cognitive: how people think; decision making and problem solving. The founding fathers of psychology are usually considered to be wilhelm wundt and. Wundt and his followers focused on the smaller elements that make up human experience. James and his fellows focused on the advantages and resulting from different human attributes. Empiricism: philosophical view that we obtain all knowledge through observable facts and experience.