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    Scope /Branches/

    Subject Matter of
    Psychology

    Dr.Ameer Hassan
    Scope of Psychology

    Physiological Psychology
    • Human being are biological organism
    • Physiological function influence our
    behaviour

    Developmental Psychology
    • Study about how people grow and change
    throughout their life from prenatal stage to
    old age
    Personality Psychology

    • Personality psychology focusing on


    individual traits that differentiate the
    behaviour of one peroson from that of
    another person
    Health Psychology

    • This explore the relations between the


    psychological factors and disease.
    • Health maintenance and promotion of
    behaviour related to good health such as
    exercise, health habits
    • Discouraging unhealthy bahaviours like
    smoking, drug abuse and alcoholism.
    Clinical Psychology

    1. It deals with the assessment and


    intervention of abnormal bahaviour.
    2. Psychological disorders arise form a
    peroson's unresolved conflicts and
    unconscious motives
    3. Clinical Psychologist are employed in
    hospitals, clinics and private practice
    Counselling Psychology

    • This focuses primarily on educational,


    social and career adjustment problms.
    Educational Psychology

    • Educational psychologists are concerned


    with all the concepts of education.
    • This includes the study of motivation,
    intelligence, perosonality, use of rewards
    and punishments, size of the class,
    expectations, the personality traits,
    effectiveness of the teacher, student and
    teacher relationship etc..
    • study about exceptional children
    Social Psychology

    • This studies the effect of society on the


    thoughts, feelings ad actions of people.
    • Our behaviour is not only the result of just
    our personality and predisposition.
    • Social and environmental factors affect the
    way we think,say and do.
    • Social psychologists work largely in
    colleges and universities and also other
    organizations
    Industrial and Organisational
    Psychology
    • Management and employee training
    • Improve communication with the
    organisation
    • Counselling employees
    • Reduce industrial disputes
    • Working attitude
    • Workers feel healthy
    Experimental Psychology

    • It is the branch that studies the processes


    of sensing, perceiving, learning, thinking,
    etc..by using scientific methods.
    • Experimental psychologists often do
    research in lab by freequently using
    animals as their experimental subjects.
    Environmental Psychology

    • It focuses on the relationship between


    people and their physical and social
    surroundings
    • Density of population
    • Noise pollution
    • Influence of overcrowding upon lifestyle
    Psychology of Women

    • This concentrates on psychological factors


    of womens behaviour and development
    • It focus on broad range of issues such as
    discrimination against women
    • The possibility of structural differences in
    the brain of men and women
    • Effect of hormones on behaviour
    Sports and Exercise Psychology

    • Role of motivation in sports


    • Importance of training
    • Muscle development
    • Coordination of eye and hand
    Cognitive Psychology

    • It studies thinking, memory, language


    development, perception, imagination and
    othe mental processes in order to deep
    into the higher human mental functions
    like insight, creativity and problem solving
    Forensic Psychology

    • Forensic psychology is the use of


    psychological practices and principles and
    applying them to the legal system, mainly
    in court.
    Animal Psychology

    • Comparative psychology or animal


    psychology is a multidisciplinary field
    designed to study the behaviours and
    cognitive processes of non humnan
    animals
    • The relationship between human and
    animals
    Behavioural Psychology

    • Behavioural psychology is the study of


    how our behaviours relate to our mind
    • Studies observable behaviour
    Cross cultural Psychology

    • Cross cultural psychology is the scientific


    study of human behaviour and mental
    processes, including both their variability
    and invariance, under diverse cultural
    conditions.
    • Cultural variance in behaviour and
    language
    Positive Psychology

    • Positive psychology is the scientific study


    of what makes life most worth living.
    • Scientific study of positive human
    functioning
    • Positive psychology is the new domain of
    the psychology
    • Positive psychology is concerned with the
    good life , greatest value of life
    Political Psychology

    • Political psychology is an interdiciplinary


    academic field dedicated to understanding
    politics, politicians and political behaviour
    from psychological perspective.
    • Psyhological attempts to political
    behaviour
    Parapsychology

    • Telepathey
    • Psychokinesis
    • ESP
    Neuropsychology

    • Neuropsychology is a branch of
    psychology that is cocerned with how the
    brain and rest of the nervous system
    influence a persons cognition
    Evalutionary Psychology

    • The term evolutionary psychology stands


    for any attmpt to adopt an evolutionary
    perspective on human behaviour
    You may be interested
    to know that what
    psychologists study?
    • Psychologists address a wide range of issues related
    to mental and behavioural functioning.

    • The knowledge so generated provides not only basic


    understanding, but also helps people to understand
    personal and social problems.

    • This kind of effort is known as application.

    • Human beings are biological as well as socio-


    cultural beings one who is growing and developing.

    • Psychologists study how the biological system works


    and socio- cultural basis shape human behaviour.
    • Contemporary psychologists study these
    processes from a life span perspective.

    • The scope of modern psychology is very wide.

    • Modern psychology studies general, abnormal,


    child, adult, geriatric behaviour as well as
    animal behaviour.

    • There are certain behaviours which can not be


    studied with human beings as a subject such
    behaviour are studied on animal subjects.
    • Behaviour is of two types :
    1.Overt
    2.Covert

    Both types of behaviour are studied in psychology.

    • Apart from external variables there are certain organismic


    variables that affect human behaviour. These variables are
    also studied in psychology.

    • Intervening variables are also studied.

    Various problems related to behaviour are subject matter of


    psychology. Some of them are as follows -:
    • SENSATION-
    Visual senstivity
    Visual Acuity
    After Image
    Colour Vision
    Colour Mixing
    Colour Contrast

    Auditory senstivity

    Pitch
    Loudness
    Masking of Tones
    Over Tones
    Localization of Sound
    PERCEPTION AND ILLUSION-

    • Figure and Ground


    • Perceptual Organization
    • Figural after-effect
    • Perceptual Illusion
    • Perceptual constancies
    • Distance Perception
    • Perception of Movement
    • Time Perception
    ATTENTION

    • Span of Attention
    • Division of Attention
    • Distraction
    • Selective Attention
    • Sustained Attention
    MOTOR RESPONSES AND WORK

    • Simple Reaction Time


    • Complex Reaction Time
    • Performance
    FEELINGS AND EMOTION

    • There are three aspects of feelings


    Cognitive
    Affective
    Conative
    MOTIVATION
    • Hunger

    • Thirst

    • Sexual behaviour

    • Social Motives
    LEARNING
    • Practice
    • Classical Conditioning
    • Instrumental Conditioning
    • Discrimination Learning
    • Vicarious Learning
    • Aversive Conditioning
    • Verbal Learning
    • Concept Learning
    MEMORY AND
    FORGETTING
    • Retention
    • Recall
    • Recognition
    • Sensory memory
    • Short term memory
    • Long term memory
    • Semantic memory
    • Forgetting
    BIOLOGICAL BASIS OF
    BEHAVIOUR
    • Genes

    • Chromosomes

    • Nervous system

    • Endocrine Glands
    SOLVING THINKING AND
    PROBLEM BEHAVIOUR

    • Verbal Puzzles

    • Construction Problems
    INTELLIGENCE
    • Psychologists try to explain Individual
    differences on the basis of intelligence.

    • The factors affecting intelligence are studied.

    • The factors leading to development of


    Intelligence are also studied.
    PERSONALITY

    • Individual differences are explained on


    basis of personality.

    • Different types of personalities are studied.

    • The factors affecting personality are also


    studied.
    ABNORMALITY
    • The behaviour that are more or less in degree
    than normal behaviour are also studied in
    psychology.

    • Some people have bizarre behaviour such


    kind of behaviour is studied.

    • Treatment of abnormal behaviour with the


    help of various therapies is also studied.

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