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What Is Psychology?
Theoretical Approaches
Psychological features of Illness
Stress
Attitudes and perspective Change
Prejudice and Discrimination
Conformity
Obedience
Social Cognition and wellbeing and fitness Behaviour
Neuropsychological and Genetic points of Illness
Substance Use And Abuse: dying And Dying
Early Experience
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What Is Psychology?
Theoretical Approaches
Psychological elements of Illness
Stress
Attitudes and perspective Change
Prejudice and Discrimination
Conformity
Obedience
Social Cognition and healthiness Behaviour
Neuropsychological and Genetic points of Illness
Substance Use And Abuse: dying And Dying
Early event and Social Development
Chapter Cognitive Development
Self-Concept
Adolescence
Adulthood
Late Adulthood
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Explanation: How can we account for what we observe? Why does it happen? Prediction: Given our theory, what will happen if…? Discovery of general laws or principles Evidence: Have our predictions been supported? How are the data collected? 13 14 What is psychology? 1 Some common beliefs and alternative views about ‘science’ and ‘scientific method’. Common beliefs λ Scientific discovery begins with simple, unbiased, unprejudiced observation: the scientist simply ‘samples’ the world without any preconceptions, expectations or predetermined theories ν Alternative views λ There is no such thing as ‘unbiased’ or ‘unprejudiced’ observation.
The experiment is a social situation and science itself is culture related. The artificiality of laboratory experiments is largely due to their being totally structured by experimenters. Also, the higher an experiment’s internal validity, the lower its external validity becomes. 2 Theoretical approaches Introduction and overview Different psychologists make different assumptions about what particular aspects of a person are worthy of study, and this helps to determine an underlying model or image of what people are like.
Most applied psychologists work in clinical, counselling, forensic, educational or occupational psychology. Newer fields include health and sport psychology. A distinction is commonly made between informal/common-sense and formal/scientific psychology. The latter aims to go beyond common-sense understanding and to provide a public, communicable body of knowledge. A science must possess a definable subject matter, involve theory construction and hypothesis testing and use empirical methods for data collection.