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What is psychology means? What’s the function of psychology? Is it important? What’s the importance of this then? What do you call a person who studies psychology? There are a lot of questions concerning psychology and as you continue reading this article all of those queries will get answered accordingly.
Well, psychology means a theoretical, educational and applied science connecting the scientific study of mental operations and behavior or performance. Psychology also refers to the application or usage of understanding, knowledge and skills to a number of areas of human activity, involving issues concerning with daily activities such as education, events, people and their task, employment, association, relationship as well as the treatment of mental health difficulties.
Psychology involves various sub-areas of study and applications related with different subject like human development, sports education, physical condition, business, media as well as the regulation. It also includes exploration and investigation from the natural sciences, social sciences and humanities.
The Importance of Psychology
Psychology is important as it is concerned with the study of behavior and mental processes and at the same time, it is also applied to many different things in human life. Everything we perform is very much related to or with psychology. Psychology, primarily studies who and what we are, why we are like that, why we act and think like that and what we could be as a person.
Psychology is important in a lot of different ways, for instance the studies that has been conducted in various life threatening illnesses. Through the process of utilizing psychology, the psychologist determined different diseases such as Parkinson’s disease, Alzheimer’s disease and some other Neurological diseases. By making use of psychological research, doctors have now developed medicines and even able to alleviate different illnesses.
Through studying psychology we are able to understand and determine how the mind and body of an individual works. With that said, people would no longer make things complicated for themselves and for their health as well. They are going to avoid things that can cause stress, they are able to manage time very well, and are more effective with their studies or chosen career.
As a writer, psychology is important as it helps me in understanding myself better, it helps me to perceive things positively and it assists me in determining the things that I enjoy doing the most and the kind of stuff I like to write about. It also contribute a lot of great help in the way I handle things in life, the way I face challenges and problems that occurs at an unexpected time and of course the way I make decisions in my everyday living.
Different Subfields of Psychology
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Abnormal Psychology – primarily focused on the study of abnormal behavior. The study is conducted to determine, describe, predict, explain, illustrate and change abnormal patterns of performance. It studies the nature of psychopathology and its causes. It is very applicable in treating the patient with psychological disorders.
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Biological Psychology – scientific study of biological basis of behavior and mental condition. Since the person’s behavior is controlled by the nervous system, biological psychologist suggested to examine the way the brain operate in order to comprehend the person’s behavior.
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Cognitive Psychology – studies cognition or the mental processes bring about behavior. Various subjects included to this field are perception, learning, problem solving, memory attention, language and emotion. It is associated with a school of thought called cognitivism.
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Personality Psychology – generally refers to the person’s personality. The main focused of this study are the patterns of person’s behavior, thought and emotions as well.
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Psychology and Law – also known as Legal psychology. Explore the topic regarding jury decision-making, eye witness memory, scientific evidence and legal policy.
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Quantitative Psychology – involves and usage of mathematical and statistical methods in psychological research and the development of statistical technique in analyzing and illustrating a behavioral data.
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School Psychology – the combined principles of educational psychology and clinical psychology in understanding and treating students with learning difficulties and disabilities. As well as to encourage intellectual growth to every gifted students.
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Social psychology – focus on how human think about each other and how they relate to one another. It primarily studies about the human’s social behavior and mental processes.
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Comparative Psychology – the focal point of this studies are the behavior and mental process of animal compare to human beings.
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Counseling Psychology – it performs personal and interpersonal operations in a person’s being wherein the main concern are the emotional, social, vocational, educational, health-related, developmental and organizational areas.
- Industrial/ Organization Psychology – it is more related to optimizing human’s potentiality in the work place.
- Environmental psychology is the practice of making sure employees and visitors to the office feel appreciated, important, happy and healthy while in the space.
- Clinical Psychology – the center of its practice are psychological assessment and psychotherapy, however it is also engage in making inquiries, teaching, consultation, forensic testimony and program development and administration.
- Developmental Psychology – concentrating on the growth and development of the human mind in its entire existence. It also tries to find reasons and to comprehend why people perceive, understand and act and how these stages alter as they grow.
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Forensic Psychology – deal with a lot of practices basically including clinical evaluations of defendants, statements to judges and attorneys and courtroom testimony at provided issues.
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Health Psychology – the method of applying psychological theory and studies to health, disease and health care. It is concerned with health-related behavior involving healthy diet, the doctor-patient relationship the patient’s comprehension regarding health information and viewpoint about illness.
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Child Psychology – studies about the child’s growth and development involving the stages of their social, emotional, mental and physical progress.
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Psychology of Creativity – it mainly involves new discoveries and usually resulted from different way of thinking.
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Psychology of Beauty – how an individual perceive and appreciates the beauty of other people and the things around him.
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Animal Psychology – how the animal respond to a stimuli in a trial and error process. Their responds to this method determines their behavior.
How Psychology Improves a Relationship
You make use of psychology everyday of your life. Are you aware of that? You use it when you are talking with friends, with your co workers and with every one around you, you use it when arguing, reasoning and disciplining your child. Since psychology are being made use day by day, below I have prepared some helpful ways to all of you, my dear readers.
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Psychology Help in Building Relationships – it helps strengthening a relationship and making everyday lives better through escalating a person’s self-knowledge and understanding towards another individual.
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Psychology Improves Daily Communication – by understanding psychology, people learn on how to communicate effectively towards one another. It teaches people to understand what others are saying and of course in comprehending the person’s actions or gestures towards a certain condition.
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Psychology Builds Self-Confidence – the more you know, and discover about yourself, your being, your personality and your weaknesses the more you seek for self-improvement and when that happens your self-confidence are increasing.
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Psychology Enriches Careers – by knowing better and understanding your co-workers you are able to get along with them, you know where to stand as you know where they are coming from and what they are going through. Psychology teaches you how to correctly and rightfully deal with other people around you. As this condition continues occurring in a work place, it will positively enrich everyone’s career.
It is very important that a person knows what psychology is all about and how essential it is in everyday lives. I hope you will be able to make use psychology in every aspects of your life as well as in making decisions.
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Nice basic summary of some of the areas in psychology people may not be aware of. Love to hear more
Good summary of psychologist. As a doctoral student in psychology, I found it unusually comprehensive for a quick overview.
One of the newer and, in my opinion, well-embraced fields within psychology is Positive Psychology, which I would have liked to see mentioned as well.
this was a great hub, sounds like something you would read on wikipedia. thats a compliment lol
A most thorough and in depth hub on psychology,including facts that I needed to know. Thanks raymondphilippe.
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Great overview! You definitely boil down the foundation of psychology and its subdivisions. We had to study all that in our intro.to psychology:) Keep up the good work.
ypur discription is well but the issue is this if psychology is toomuch important in our life than why this subject is not compoulsary. as it is important for a successfull life that we understand other and psychology helps alot in understanding of others. sothis subject must compulsary.
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I m psychology student. i want 2 say's that when it is too much important in our daily life then why should not include in pre medical sciences subjects.
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I have learned that psychology is a foundation to ones lifetime, because it starts right from birth and surrounds a person until his death, as a foundation lifts a stroyed building from its start to its crumbling moment.
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How psychology is important in Business administration?
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I want to know about the importance of personality theories in medicine & health sciences
I just wanted to know what impact psychology has on the communitoral environment.
Psychology is very important as it help me in understanding myself better, especially its help in building relationships, enrich my carrer. I love this studies, thanks to Jean Piaget.
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Denny Lyon 3 years ago
Great overview to help point people toward the area they might like to investigate further on their own. Blogging this on over to my healing blog and soul calendar blog for science, scheduled in about 2 weeks. Hopefully, this will get you some more readers too! Thanks a lot for such a good hub!