Teachlr.com | Psychology Diploma Course - Semester

1 Lesson 1 14:31 min

DescriptionThese courses consist of what you will learn in the first semester of the university's freshman year. Although there are some mental health conditions that can be identified by their physical manifestations, such as the plaques that grow in Alzheimer's disease, the majority of psychological ideas are derived from the study of human behavior. Some mental health conditions can be identified by their physical manifestations, such as the plaques that grow in Alzheimer's disease. Meeting with patients, conducting evaluations to find out what their concerns are and what may be causing any difficulties, and recommending or providing treatment, such as through counselling and psychotherapy, are all standard procedures for a licensed psychologist who is actively practicing their profession. Meeting with patients, conducting evaluations to find out what their concerns are and what may be causing any difficulties, and recommending or providing treatment, such as through counselling and psychotherapy.
2 Lesson 2 17:29 min

DescriptionThese courses consist of what you will learn in the first semester of the university's freshman year. In addition, psychologists could be accountable for a variety of other things. They could conduct research in order to offer guidance to health authorities and other bodies on social and other methods, evaluate children who have difficulty learning in school, lead seminars on how to avoid being bullied, work with recruiting teams in firms, and a great deal more. They could also do a lot of other things.
3 Lesson 3 13:42 min

DescriptionThese courses consist of what you will learn in the first semester of the university's freshman year.Various subdisciplines within the science of psychologyThere are several subfields that fall under the umbrella of psychology, and each one focuses on a particular application. There is no one approach that can be considered definitively correct for classifying them; nonetheless, the following are some of the most common types:
4 Lesson 4 13:03 min

DescriptionThese courses consist of what you will learn in the first semester of the university's freshman year.The subfield of psychology known as clinical psychology.The purpose of clinical psychology is to comprehend, foresee, and find solutions to problems associated with adjusting, being impaired, and feeling uncomfortable. This is achieved by fusing together scientific study, theoretical analysis, and practical application. It is conducive to the individual developing their capacity for adaptation, adjustment, and personal development.
5 Lesson 5 17:51 min

DescriptionThese courses consist of what you will learn in the first semester of the university's freshman year. A clinical psychologist is someone who studies the intellectual, emotional, biological, psychological, social, and behavioral aspects of human performance across an individual's whole life in a variety of different societies and socioeconomic levels. Clinical psychology may be able to aid us in a number of areas, including the following: understanding, avoiding, and treating pain or dysfunction that is caused psychologically; enhancing an individual's well-being and personal progress; and fostering personal growth and development.
6 Lesson 6 18:16 min

DescriptionThese courses consist of what you will learn in the first semester of the university's freshman year. However, clinical psychologists are frequently engaged in a wide range of other activities as well, such as research, training, forensic testimony, and other fields. Psychological evaluation and psychotherapy are at the core of clinical psychology as a field of practice; however, clinical psychologists also work in other fields. The scientific study of mental and behavioral processes.The fields of problem-solving, memory, learning, and language are just few of the topics that fall within the purview of cognitive psychology, the branch of psychology that studies the inner workings of the mind. It looks at how people think, what they perceive, how they interact with one another, how they recall new knowledge, and how they learn new information. In addition to its close links to the subject of neuroscience, it also has close linkages to the fields of philosophy and linguistics. Cognitive psychologists look at how people take in information, how that knowledge is processed, and how it is retained in their memories. Understanding how to improve memory, how to increase the accuracy of decision-making, or how to set up educational programs in order to encourage learning are all examples of practical applications that may be gained from this research. The study of how children grow psychologicallyHuman development refers to the process of studying, from a scientific perspective, the sequential psychological changes that occur throughout the course of a person's lifetime. This process is typically studied in the field of psychology. It focuses on extremely young infants and newborns as its primary demographic, although it also goes after adolescents, adults, and elderly individuals as its victims. The maturation of one's physical capacities, one's capacity for problem-solving, one's moral reasoning, one's ability to acquire language, one's emotional intelligence, one's personality, one's sense of oneself, and one's identity are all important aspects. It also investigates the mental structures that are intrinsic, as opposed to those that are acquired through experience, or how the qualities of a person interact with external circumstances, and how this influences development. In other words, it looks at how a person grows as a result of how their qualities interact with the world around them. There are areas of overlap between developmental psychology and other fields, such as language, and these areas are interesting to study. The study of evolution using psychological methods.The primary objective of the field of evolutionary psychology is to investigate how psychological changes throughout the history of evolution have had an impact on human behavior, such as the development of language. An evolutionary psychologist is someone who holds the belief that many human psychological traits are adaptive, which means that they have played a role in ensuring the survival of our species over the period of thousands of years. The discipline of study known as forensic psychologyAt its core, forensic psychology may be seen as the application of psychological concepts to different aspects of the legal system and the investigation of crimes. A person who utilizes the empirical research approach of psychology within the framework of the judicial system is known as a forensic psychologist (both criminal and civil). Steps that are necessary in this procedure include evaluating the psychological factors that may have an influence on a case or behavior and presenting the findings in court. The psychological aspects of medical treatmentHealth psychology is sometimes referred to as behavioral medicine and medical psychology. These are only two of its many titles. This line of inquiry looks at the ways in which biology, behavior, and the surrounding environment all interact to jointly define health and illness. In contrast to a physician, a health psychologist will focus on the individual in their whole in addition to the elements that influence a person's health status. This is in contrast to a physician's typical approach, which is to investigate the biological causes of a disease first. This may include the individual's socioeconomic circumstances, educational level, and history, in addition to acts that have the potential to have an influence on the disease, such as following instructions and taking medication as recommended. In clinical settings, it is common practice for psychologists who specialize in health care to work together with a wide variety of other kinds of medical practitioners. NeuropsychologyNeuropsychology is the field of study that investigates the connections that may be made between the structure and function of the brain and the behaviors and thought processes of an individual. Neuropsychology may be included into the therapy process if it is determined that a patient's condition involves lesions in the brain as well as investigations that involve monitoring electrical activity in the patient's brain. After a suspected or confirmed case of brain damage, such as a stroke, a person may be given a neuropsychological exam in order to determine whether or not they are likely to develop behavioral issues as a result of the injury. This is done in order to determine whether or not the person is at risk for developing behavioral issues as a result of the brain injury. Because of these discoveries, it is now possible for a doctor to prescribe treatment to a patient that has the potential to help the patient achieve probable improvements in cognitive impairment that has already been maintained. The application of psychological principles to business settings.Occupational psychologists, who are also frequently referred to as organizational psychologists, are professionals who evaluate the performance of individuals in the workplace as well as during training and then make recommendations based on their findings. They aid firms in establishing techniques of operation that are more productive and in knowing how people and groups behave when they are working. This information may be helpful in improving effectiveness, efficiency, job satisfaction, and the chance of staff retention. The study of human interaction in social settings.Empirical methods are used to fulfill the purpose of social psychology, which is to examine how social elements affect human behavior. The primary emphasis of social psychology is to investigate how social factors influence human behavior. This theory tries to explain how feelings, actions, and beliefs are influenced by the actual, imagined, or inferred presence of other individuals in the environment. A social psychologist investigates a variety of areas, including leadership, group dynamics, social perception, non-verbal behavior, violent and biased behavior, and more. It is commonly accepted that having a thorough knowledge of both social perception and social interaction is necessary in order to have a robust comprehension of social behavior. Environmental psychology, consumer psychology, cross-cultural psychology, educational psychology, and military psychology are just few of the several subfields that fall under the umbrella of psychology. The number of sites from which one may branch out continues to rise. HistoryAncient Greece, Egypt, India, Persia, and China were all centers for the study and application of psychology within the context of philosophical thought. The history of these civilizations goes back thousands upon thousands of years. Plato, who lived in 387 BCE, hypothesized that mental processes took place in the brain, while Aristotle, who lived in 335 BCE, hypothesized that mental processes took place in the heart. Both of these philosophers are considered to have lived in ancient Greece. Born in 980 A.D., Avicenna was a prominent Muslim physician who was noted for his work. His investigation and treatment of epilepsy, memory loss, and night terrors made him well-known in the medical community. During the medieval era, it is thought that Islamic doctors were the first to create institutions devoted to the treatment of mental health concerns. Franz Mesmer proposed, in the year 1774, the hypothesis that hypnosis, sometimes commonly referred to as "mesmerism," would be able to aid in the treatment of certain types of mental sickness. Mesmer's theory is still widely held today. In 1793, Philippe Pinel made a move that signaled a turn toward a more compassionate treatment of patients with mental health difficulties when he freed the first patients who were suffering from mental health issues from incarceration. This step signaled a turn toward more compassionate treatment of patients with mental health difficulties. In the year 1879, the German psychologist Wilhelm Wundt was the one who first created psychology as its own independent experimental branch of study. He was the pioneer who established a laboratory at Leipzig University that was entirely devoted to doing research in the field of psychology. In today's day, Wundt is often referred to be the "father" of contemporary psychology. In the year 1890, William James's book titled Principles of Psychology was made available to the public for the first time. James was a thinker from the United States. For a good many decades, it was a matter of debate among psychologists all over the world in every region of the world. The same year saw the introduction of the State Care Act in the state of New York, which mandated that people with mental health concerns must relocate out of poor homes and into hospitals for treatment rather than staying in the poor houses itself. This law was passed in the same year. In the year 1890, the American Psychological Association (APA) was founded, and G. Stanley Hall was elected to serve as the organization's very first president. Hermann Abbingaus, a German psychologist who worked at the University of Berlin and lived from 1850 to 1909, is recognized with being the first person to do extensive study on memory. Ivan Pavlov, a Russian scientist who lived from 1849 to 1936 and is credited with conducting the experiment that popularized the term "conditioning" by demonstrating that dogs produced saliva in response to the anticipation of being fed, is the person who is credited with conducting the experiment that popularized the term "conditioning." Sigmund Freud, who was born in Austria and died away in Austria in 1939, is credited with creating the field of psychoanalysis, which is a kind of psychotherapy. Freud was born in Austria and passed away in Austria. In order to achieve his goal of understanding the mind, he relied on interpretive methods, introspection, and clinical observations. He focused the majority of his energy on resolving difficulties associated with unresolved conflicts, mental suffering, and psychopathology. Freud proposed that the unconscious mind was to responsible for the bulk of people's ideas and actions, in addition to mental health difficulties, and he contended that this was the case throughout his work. Structuralism is a philosophical school of thinking that emphasizes on the question, "What is consciousness?" The American philosopher E. B. Titchener was an ardent proponent of this school of thought. William James and John Dewey were both devoted followers of the philosophical concept of functionalism, which sought a solution to the question "What is consciousness for?" James and Dewey were both influential in the development of this school of thought. The debate that took place between structuralists and functionalists led to a rapid increase in interest in psychology not just in the United States but also in other countries throughout the globe. Because of this curiosity, the first psychology laboratory to be established in the United States was established at Johns Hopkins University. BehaviorismJohn B. Watson, a psychologist who was born and raised in the United States, was the one who, in 1913, developed a new school of thought in psychology that switched the focus. According to his line of thought, conduct is not the result of mental processes that occur inside us; rather, it is the consequence of how we respond to the environment in which we find ourselves. The fundamental focus of behaviorism was the investigation of how people come to exhibit new behaviors as a result of their engagement with the world around them. HumanismHumanists held the view that behaviorism and psychoanalysis did not go far enough in the direction of humanizing patients. In contrast to the notion that humans are helpless victims of their environments or the unconscious, these thinkers believed that people are inherently good and that our own mental processes play an active part in our behavior. They also held the belief that our behavior is in part determined by our own thoughts. The humanist movement puts a high value on one's sentiments, the ability to make free choices, and the capacity to have one's own distinct viewpoint on the events of one's life. The approach that is cognitiveDespite having its roots in the 1970s, this school of thought in psychology is regarded as being the most up-to-date school of thought in the field. The cognitive theorists have the notion that we take in information from our environment via our senses, and then we cognitively process that data by organizing it, changing it, remembering it, and forming connections between it and other information that we have already stored. The use of cognitive theory has been shown in many different fields, such as language, memory, learning, perceptual systems, mental disorders, and dreams, to name a few.

Psychology Diploma Course - Semester - 1

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