PSYC 107 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Personnel Psychology, Behavioral Neuroscience, Institutional Review Board
24 Sep 2015
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Cognitive: study how we perceive and process information, experimental psychologist cognition learning. Personality: study how our individual traits develop as we mature. Social: study how others impact our thoughts and behaviors. Clinical: work with people who have mental disorders, different from counseling psychology. School: assess and develop intervention programs. Health: psychological factors in health and illness. Developmental: study who and how people change over time, most work with infants and children. Biological (behavioral neuroscience: examine psychological bases of behavior, most work in research settings. Forensic: assess, diagnose, and assist with rehabilitated treatment of prison inmates, others conduct research on eyewitnesses or juries. Sports: psychological effect on performance sports. Prefrontal lobotomy (didn"t work: neural fibers connecting frontal lobes to thalamus were severed. Heuristics: mental shortcuts or rules of thumb that we use daily reduce cognitive energy required to solve problems but we oversimplify reality representatives heuristics: availability heuristics. Principals of research design: perceive the question.
