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The study of changes that occur as an individual matures. It covers the entire life cycle, from conception to death.
People in the field are often referred to as psychotherapists. They help people deal with their personal problems. They work mainly in private offices, mental hospitals, prisons and clinics. Some specialize in giving or interpreting personality tests designed to determine whether a person needs treatment. Counselors usually work in schools, or industrial firms. About one half of all psychologists specialize in clinical psychology.
This is a growing area of psychology.It
attempts to apply psychological principles to the legal system. They might
provide testimony as an expert witness in a trial, be employed to counsel inmates
at a correctional facility, or work with law enforcement authorities in solving criminal cases.
This is a specialty of medicine. After a student of this field completes medical school, he or she continues training in psychiatric medicine and learns to treat people with deserved behaviour. They can prescribe medicine to treat their patients. Sometimes they work with a psychologist in testing, evaluating, and treating patients. They are not involved in much research, They focus their efforts primarily on helping their patients deal with emotional difficulties.
People in this field study and develop methods to boost production, improve working conditions, place applicants in jobs for which they are best suited, train people, and reduce accidents.
People in this field do everything from testing how electrical stimulation of a certain area of a rats brain affects its behavior, through studying how disturbed people think, to observing how different socioeconomic groups vote in elections. They are basic scientists rather than applied scientists.
These people study groups an dhow they influence individual behaviors. Some are particularly interested in public opinion and devote much of their time to conducting polls and surveys.
People are usually involved in basic rather than applied science. People who study personality investigate its development, personal traits, or may create personality tests.
People in this field deals with topics related to teaching children and young adults, such as intelligence, memory, problem solving, and motivation. Specialists in this field evaluate teaching methods, device tests, and develop new instructional devices for films, tv, and classrooms.
This field is a relatively new area of community mental health. Someone who specializes in this area may work in a mental health or social welfare agency operated by the state or local government or by a private organization. They may help design, run, or evaluate a mental health clinic.