Cognitive
What type of research is Cognitive Psychology?
Is Developmental Applied or Basic Research?
What is Basic Research? It is Essential to understand how humans learn, mature, and adapt.
Is Educational Applied or Basic Research?
What is Basic Research? They apply psychological science to improve the learning process and promote educational success for all students.
Is Psychometric Applied or Basic Research?
What is Basic Research? Provides the theory and techniques for psychological measurements. The measurements in psychology depend on tests and questionnaires.
What is a Cognitive Psychologist?
Study human thinking, with a focus on such topics as perception, language, attention, problem solving, memory, judgment, and decision making.
What is Developmental Psychology?
What is the study of how our behavior changes as we age?
What is an Educational Psychologist?
What is the study of how we learn in different environments and in different ways and how to develop strategies to learn then teach?
What is an Psychometric Psychologist?
What is the study of the math-related methods used to acquire psychological knowledge.
Update existing neurocognitive or personality tests or devise new tests for use in clinical and school settings or in business and industry.
What type of Jobs will involve cognitive psychology?
What is a professor or a corporate consultant?
What type of jobs that involve Developmental Psychology?
What is at a school, at a daycare center, or at a senior center?
What type of jobs that involve Educational Psychology?
What is at a university, a school, or at teacher training?
What type of jobs that involve Psychometric Psychology?
What is at a university, a private research firm, or a government agency?
What is the difference between cognitive and experimental psychology?
Experimental - Describes how the scientific method is applied in psychology. Concerned with testing theories to understand human thoughts.
What is the difference between Developmental Psychologist and a Forensic Psychologist?
Developmental - Study how humans grow in age
Forensic - Combine Law and Psychology; help law enforcement in criminal cases.
What is the difference between Educational Psychologist and School Psychologist?
What is an school psychologist conducts applied research and works with students to solve emotional, social, and cognitive problems. An educational psychologist study how people learn and retain knowledge.
What is the difference between Psychometric Psychologist and Neuro-Psychologist?
Psychometric - Focus more on behavior; reaction time, how people interact with others.
Neuropsychologists are driven more by research; focus on neurobehavioral disorders, cognitive process, and brain disorders.
What is NOT an example of cognitive learning strategies?
What is; Acting differently with close friends than with your supervisors; Social Perspective
Do all of these examples appear to be from a developmental perspective?
Yes, all examples show what a developmental psychologist does in their line of work.
Is this educational psychology or school psychology?
- Counseling a Student
What is School?; A school psychologist helps focus on counseling, testing, and behavior modifications, while a educational psychologist focuses on how a teacher might teach a student to process knowledge or how people learn in general.
True or False: A SAT test is considered a psychometric approach.
What is True? A psychometric psychologist develops and evaluates mental behaviors and performances. For example, they might develop a personality test to look at why one person behaves differently from another.