Identify and briefly describe the four areas of specialization within applied
psychology
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1) Clinical Psychology
- Concerned with evaluation, diagnosis and treatment of individuals with
psychological disorders
- Principal activities include interviewing clients, psychological testing,
providing individual or group psychotherapy
2) Counselling Psychology
- Overlaps with clinical psychology
- Interviewing, testing, providing therapy
- Work with different clientele than clinical psychologists
- Often specialize in family, marital or career counselling
3) Educational and School psychology
- Educational psychologists work to improve curriculum design,
achievement testing, teacher training
- School psychologists work in elementary and secondary schools, test and
counsel students having difficulty in school and aid parents and teachers in
, solving school-related problems
4) Industrial and Organizational psychology
- Perform wide variety of tasks in world of business and industry
- Running HR departments, working to improve staff morale and attitudes,
striving to increase job satisfaction and productivity, examining
organizational structures and procedures, making recommendations for
improvements
Define behaviour.
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Any observable (overt) response or activity by an organism
According to Weiten and McCann, what school of psychology eventually came to
view psychology's mission as an attempt to relate overt behaviour (responses) to
experiences or stimuli in the environment?
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Behaviourism's stimulus-response approach
Describe the SQ3R method and what makes it effective
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is a student-directed approach in which students are taught five steps for
studying content-area and expository texts: Survey, Question, Read, Recite,
& Review.
, It is effective because it facilitates active processing of text material, the
identification of key ideas, and effective review of these ideas
Define evolutionary psychology
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Examines behavioural processes in terms of their adaptive value for
members of a species over a course of many generations
Which of theory (structuralism or functionalism) did Darwin's theory of evolution
impact the most?
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Functionalism
Define critical thinking.
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The use of cognitive skills and strategies that increase the probability of a
desirable outcome
What is humanistic psychology?
psychology
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1) Clinical Psychology
- Concerned with evaluation, diagnosis and treatment of individuals with
psychological disorders
- Principal activities include interviewing clients, psychological testing,
providing individual or group psychotherapy
2) Counselling Psychology
- Overlaps with clinical psychology
- Interviewing, testing, providing therapy
- Work with different clientele than clinical psychologists
- Often specialize in family, marital or career counselling
3) Educational and School psychology
- Educational psychologists work to improve curriculum design,
achievement testing, teacher training
- School psychologists work in elementary and secondary schools, test and
counsel students having difficulty in school and aid parents and teachers in
, solving school-related problems
4) Industrial and Organizational psychology
- Perform wide variety of tasks in world of business and industry
- Running HR departments, working to improve staff morale and attitudes,
striving to increase job satisfaction and productivity, examining
organizational structures and procedures, making recommendations for
improvements
Define behaviour.
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Any observable (overt) response or activity by an organism
According to Weiten and McCann, what school of psychology eventually came to
view psychology's mission as an attempt to relate overt behaviour (responses) to
experiences or stimuli in the environment?
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Behaviourism's stimulus-response approach
Describe the SQ3R method and what makes it effective
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is a student-directed approach in which students are taught five steps for
studying content-area and expository texts: Survey, Question, Read, Recite,
& Review.
, It is effective because it facilitates active processing of text material, the
identification of key ideas, and effective review of these ideas
Define evolutionary psychology
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Examines behavioural processes in terms of their adaptive value for
members of a species over a course of many generations
Which of theory (structuralism or functionalism) did Darwin's theory of evolution
impact the most?
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Functionalism
Define critical thinking.
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The use of cognitive skills and strategies that increase the probability of a
desirable outcome
What is humanistic psychology?
