Transcript 1-2: Careers

WHS AP Psychology
Unit 1: Science of Psychology
Essential Task 1-2: Distinguish the different
careers in psychology (clinical, counseling,
developmental, educational, experimental,
human factors, industrial-organizational,
personality, and psychometric)
Approaches
Growth
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We are
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Careers
The Science
of Psychology
Ethics
Research
Statistics
Methods
Sampling
Descriptive
Correlation
Naturalistic
Observation
Case
Study
Survey
Experiment
Descriptive
Central
Tendency
Variance
Inferential
Essential
Task
1-2:
Careers
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• Distinguish the different careers in
psychology
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Clinical
Counseling
Developmental
Educational
Experimental
Human Factors
Industrial-Organizational
Personality
Psychometric
Clinical vs. Counseling
• About 50% of all Psychologists
• Counseling psychologists deal with “normal” problems,
such as stress caused by career change or marital
problems
• Counseling psychologist’s focus more on the
psychologically healthy individual where clinical focuses on
individuals with serious mental illness (e.g. schizophrenia).
• Clinical psychologists are concerned with diagnosis and
treatment of psychological disorders
• Split time between treatment and researching the cause of
psychological disorders and the effectiveness of different
types of psychotherapy and counseling.
• Career options include:
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Licensed social workers
Counseling psychologists
Clinical psychologists
Psychiatrists
Psychoanalysts
Developmental
• Study of physical and mental growth
from birth to old age
• study of changing abilities from womb
to tomb
• Subfields
– Child psychology
– Adolescent psychology
– Life-span psychology
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Educational
• School Psychologist
• Psychological evaluations
• Consult with school personnel in relation to
students’ learning, behavior, and
environments
• They are trained to look at the effectiveness of
academic programs, classroom agendas, and
treatment interventions, which assists in the
development of specific interventions.
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Experimental
• Design research experiments
• May or may not have a direct impact on
the treatment of patients
• Animal subjects
• Drug trials
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Human Factors
• The science of understanding the properties of
human capability (Human Factors Science).
• The application of this understanding to the
design, development and deployment of systems
and services (Human Factors Engineering).
• The art of ensuring successful application of
Human Factors Engineering to a program
(sometimes referred to as Human Factors
Integration).It can also be called ergonomics.
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Industrial Organizational
• Study of psychological principles in
industry and business
• Examples
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– Selecting and training personnel
– Productivity improvement
– Optimizing working conditions
– Managing the impact of automation on
workers
Personality
• looks at the patterns of thoughts, feelings, and
behavior that make a person unique.
• Study of how people differ from one another on
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Conscientiousness
Agreeableness
Neuroticism
Openness
Extraversion
• Administer personality tests such as the MMPI or
the Myers Briggs
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Psychometric
• the field of psychology concerned with
the theory and technique of
psychological measurement.
• Create psychological tests that are
reliable and valid.
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