PSY 4130 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Doctor Of Psychology, World View, Applied Psychology

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 4130
• Professor: Shirley Griffith

Document Summary

Today, a spirit of eclecticism prevails; the willingness to employ the most effective methods available in solving a problem: believed to strengthen psychology as a discipline. Pure psychology refers to all the facts and theories of behavioural phenomena, and applied psychology is the application of those facts and theories in concrete practical situations. As the number of applied psychologists grew, they demanded greater recognition and status within the apa; tension between purely scienti c psychologists and applied psychologists who wanted to practice their theories and ndings. Psychotherapy became the primary function of clinical psychologists due to large numbers of incoming wwii veterans in need of treatment: applied psychologists grew in numbers and developed 54 divisions of the apa. The hawthorne effect refers to when employees or subjects are aware that they are being observed, so attempt to increase productivity and respond positively no matter the outcome.