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Perspective & Domain
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Sociocultural Perspective | studying how cultures and groups of people can affect an individual's behavior and thinking (ex: bystander effect) |
| Evolutionary Perspective | examine thoughts and behaviors in terms of natural selection (survival advantage) |
| Behavioral Perspective | focuses on observable behaviors and what we learn from the environment (classical & operant conditioning) |
| Psychodynamic Perspective | the study of the unconscious mind (repressed memories and shameful feelings) |
| Biopsychology/Biological Perspective | studies how humans are influenced by natural causes (genetics, neurotransmitters, hormones, brain structures, etc.) |
| Humanistic Perspective | the idea that all people are born good, and we chose our behavior through free will (ex: self-actualization = achieving your fullest potential) |
| Cognitive Perspective | studies HOW we think, NOT why we think or we behave in certain ways (ex: children are egocentric = they can only view the world from their own perspective) |
| Biopsychosocial Perspective | combinations of biological, psychological, and social factors (cognitive factors, social influences, and genetic tendencies influence behavior) |
| The Perspective Maslow & Rogers Are Associated With Is... | the humanistic perspective |
| The Perspective Freud Is Associated With Is... | the psychodynamic perspective |
| The Perspective Darwin Is Associated With Is... | the evolutionary perspective |
| The Perspective Piaget Is Associated With Is... | the cognitive perspective |
| Biological Domain | work with researchers, doctors, professors, etc. || study the physiological causes of different behaviors by looking at the brain, the nervous system, etc. |
| Clinical Domain | work with people who attain serious mental disorders || identify, diagnose, analyze, and treat mental disorders, but can't prescribe medication |
| Cognitive Domain | work with people who have unique thought processes || study the mental processes in the brain by examining the process in which people store and intake information |
| Counseling Domain | work with all kinds of people || look into emotional, social, educational, and developmental behaviors people have, and consult with individuals to help encourage success |
| Developmental Domain | work with people of all ages who may have development issues || study the social and emotional growth within individuals, and attempt to understand where it stems from |
| Educational Domain | work with students who may be struggling academically || study how people learn in different environments, how different learning methods affect different people, and instructional processes to improve educational experiences |
| Experimental Domain | work with researchers, universities, and subjects of experiments || use a multitude of scientific methods to do both research and data collection, and conduct experiments to learn about psychological phenomena |
| Human Factors Domain | work with consumers of technology and tech companies || study the relationship between humans and technology, finding the best ways to construct technology in order for efficiency and safety |
| Industrial-Organizational Domain | work with company CEOs and their employees || study the relationship between employees and their employers, to find the best work settings, management strategies, and more to help companies exceed |
| Personality Domain | work with everyone || study where personality might come from, do personality tests, and look at personality disorders |
| Psychomentric Domain | work with researchers to help design experiments || come up with measurements for experimentation, and work on the mathematical portion of a study |
| Social Domain | work with groups of people and possibly different cultures || study how groups of people, cultures, family, and more can affect an individual |