Vocabulary
A person highly trained in the methods, factual knowledge, and theories of psychology.
What is a psychologist?
What does a psychologist need a _______ to offer therapy?
What is a license?
How many types of psychologists are there?
What is around 10?
Studies problems of crime and crime prevention, rehabillitation programs, prisons, and courtroom dynamics; selects candidates for police work.
What is forensic psychology?
A medical doctor with additional training in the diagnosis and treatment of mental and emotional disorders.
What is a psychiatrist?
What can improves social interaction, distracts people from their own problems, and can also improve self-esteem and the ability to do something successfully or efficiently.
What is helping people?
Type of psychologist that most people think about?
What is counselor?
Studies the ways in which culture, subculture, and ethnic group membership affect behavior
What is cultural psychology?
A psychologist who specializes in the treatment of psychological and behavioral disturbances or who does research on such disturbances.
What is a clinical psychologist?
Studies the relationship between behavior and health; uses psychological principles to promote health and prevent illness.
What is a health psychologist?
Are responsible for prescribing drugs for serious mental disorders
What is a psychiatrist?
Researches differences between males and females, the aquisition of gender identity, and the role of gender throughout life.
What is gender psychology?
A psychologist who specializes in the diagnosis and treatment of mental and emotional disturbances.
What is a counseling psychologist?
Does psychological testing, referrals, and emotional and vocabulary counseling of students; detects and treats learning disabilites; improve classroom learning.
What is a school psychologist?
They specialize in practical helping skills with problems with marriage or children in school.
What is a counselor?
Investigates classroom dynamics, teaching styles, and learning; develops educational tests, evaluates educational programs
What is educational psychology?
In research, an animal whose behavior is studied to derive principles that may apply to human behavior.
What is an animal model?
What gives you the opportunity for you to grow as a person, to better understand how you fit into the world around you?
What is helping the community?
What is a psychologist's goal?
What is help those in need with the best methods possible?
Studies human thinking and information-processing abilities.
What is cognitive psychology?