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    What Is Psychology? Its Scope & Applications

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    Psychology is the scientific study of the mind and behavior. It seeks to understand how people think, act, and feel by observing, measuring, and interpreting behavior and mental processes. Psychology is both an academic field that conducts research and an applied field that aims to solve practical problems. Some key areas of application include mental health, education, health, business, and law. Applied psychology takes findings from basic research in areas like cognition and applies them to solve real-world problems across many domains of life and society.

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    Psychology is the scientific study of the mind and behavior. It seeks to understand how people think, act, and feel by observing, measuring, and interpreting behavior and mental processes. Psychology is both an academic field that conducts research and an applied field that aims to solve practical problems. Some key areas of application include mental health, education, health, business, and law. Applied psychology takes findings from basic research in areas like cognition and applies them to solve real-world problems across many domains of life and society.

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    Psychology is the scientific study of the mind and behavior. It seeks to understand how people think, act, and feel by observing, measuring, and interpreting behavior and mental processes. Psychology is both an academic field that conducts research and an applied field that aims to solve practical problems. Some key areas of application include mental health, education, health, business, and law. Applied psychology takes findings from basic research in areas like cognition and applies them to solve real-world problems across many domains of life and society.

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    What Is Psychology?

    Its Scope & Applications

    Science is a complete body of knowledge arranged in a systematic order.


    Psychology is both an academic and applied field, a biological science deals
    with the behavior and minds of animals and Human beings both. Research in
    psychology seeks to figure out and explain how we think, act and feel. As
    many of us are aware of the fact that, a large part of psychology is devoted
    to the diagnosis and treatment of mental health issues, but thats just the tip
    of the iceberg when it comes to the application of psychology.
    Psychology is the youngest of all sciences and still in development process.
    Its ultimate aim is to study the laws of human nature and create better
    understanding of human behavior and its experiences. Psychology has
    extended its scope to all kinds of behavior whether normal or abnormal,
    children or adults, animals or human beings, individuals or groups. The
    psychologists examine phenomena which we call sensations, perceptions,
    thoughts, volitions and emotions; they analyze them, classify them, and seek
    to reduce them to the smallest number of fundamental activities. The chief
    interest for mankind in psychology is due to the expectation that some
    information as regards the nature of the soul itself can be thence derived;
    there is another reason for the precise treatment of these metaphysical
    problems here.
    Because psychology is science, all fields of psychology rely on scientific
    method. The scientific method is way of acquiring knowledge. This particular
    method emphasizes the study of how real events are experienced through
    ones senses a perspective known as Empiricism. The use of psychology
    becomes more interesting and useful in our lives when psychologists conduct
    basic research that seeks to solve everyday problems which brings in

    Applied Psychology research. Many areas of our lives and society have been
    influenced and changed by often overlooked application of psychological
    principles. Mental health, organizational psychology, business management,
    education, health, product design, ergonomics and law are just the few areas
    that have been influenced by the application of psychological principles and
    findings. The umbrella of applied psychology includes the areas of; clinical
    psychology, counseling psychology, industrial and organizational psychology,
    occupational health psychology, human factors, forensic psychology,
    engineering psychology, school, sports and community psychology.
    These applications can be applied in a simple case scenario, for example; a
    small team of cognitive psychologists researching attention span. They like
    many researchers at university using 18 year old undergrads as participants
    for experiment. They collect statistically significant data and develop a
    model for how to suddenly grab a persons attention. An applied psychologist
    will take this concept and see how this newly model implements in their
    particular sub-field. A human factor psychologist might use the cognitive
    psychologists finding to develop a system that gets a driver attention
    enabling the driver to avoid car-wrecks. Environmental psychologists might
    use the same laboratory findings to attract students attention to a particular
    area of the classroom thus increase learning. Applied psychology is being
    implemented into peoples everyday lives, and improving their lives, though
    it is rarely noticed or being credited as applied psychology.

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