Goals of Modern psychology

1. Goals of Modern psychology 1-Description: how people think, feel and act in specific situation. Psychologists try to observe the behavior of interest, (collection of data) 2-Explanation: “ why and how” that behavior happened based on the different psychological perspectives. 3-Predication:The ability to say in advance how someone is likely to act.

2. Contemporary fields of Specialization 1-Experimental psychology: -Experimental psychologists frequently use animals rather than human as their experimental subjects. • studies basic processes e.g. (hearing, perception, learning, and communication).

3. 2-Neuro- psychology: • Focus on study how basic processes are controlled by nervous system,also use animals. Examples: * to explain why memory sometimes declines in old age, (breakdown in the network of nerve cells that involves in remembering). * Adults with history of hyperactivity had reduced activity in areas of the brain that control body movement and attention.

4. Goals of Modern psychology…cont. 3-Personality psychology: • Personality: (relatively stable style of thinking, acting, and responding emotionally of a person). -Concerned individual differences in behavior

5. Goals of Modern psychology…cont. 4-Social psychology: • factors especially presence of other people, that affect personal response, thinking , motivation and behavior in a given social situation. - Show that behavior that not just the results of personality traits.

6. 5-Developmental psychology: - describe and explain the systematic changes that occur in people throughout the life cycle. • -How thinking , perception, memory, intelligence, language, problem solving, motivation, and social interaction change as people grow older.

7. Goals of Modern psychology…cont. 6-Industrial and Organizational Psychology: • -Concerns with all aspects of behavior that relate to the work place. • -One aspect: How work can be made more satisfying and more productive. • -A major issue facing industrial and organizational psychologists now is findings ways to help working women deal with stress of handling their dual responsibilities at home and at office.

8. Goals of Modern psychology…cont. 7-Educational and school psychology: • Specialize in analyzing and improving formal education, * concerned with aspects of educational process as: - Factors affect performance in the classroom? • Importance of motivation? • Using of reward and punishment. - Size of classroom &interaction between students and teachers - Designing and administering tests of various kinds.

9. Goals of Modern psychology…cont. 8-Clinical and counseling psychology: *Deals with diagnosis and treatment of psychological disorder. (psychotherapy). *Counseling helps normal people with milder problems of social and emotional adjustment like marriage and family life.

10. Goals of Modern psychology…cont. 9-Health psychology: • Deals with the relationship between personality and health. • Believe that psychological factors as (stress, hostility, and depression) plays a role in onset and progress of many physical disorders like peptic ulcer, heart diseases. • -Try to identify psychological strategies to cope with serious illness.

11. Goals of Modern psychology…cont. 10-Environmental psychology: • -Focus on the relationship between people and their physical, social surroundings like air pollution, noise, overcrowdings, poverty, and natural disasters as earthquakes, volcanoes, and tornadoes etc. • These environmental conditions lead to psychological distress especially if the poor person lives in civilization city.

12. Goals of Modern psychology…cont. 11- Peace psychology: • Study how war, especially nuclear war, can be avoided. * focus on personality of war leaders, misconception in international conflicts, and negotiations and bargaining among political officials. * How people's fears and anxieties can be transformed into effective political action.

13. Goals of Modern psychology…cont. 12- Forensic psychology: • Concerned with the application of psychological methods to legal questions and issues. * Assessment of some specific psycho-legal question as if the criminal has an mental illness as psychosis which make him unaccountable for his actions.

14. Goals of Modern psychology…cont. 13- Sport psychology: • Seeks to understand psychological/mental factors that affect performance . • It deals with increasing performance by managing emotions and minimizing the psychological effects of injury.