SCOPE OF PSYCHOLOGY

BASIC PSYCHOLOGY: It is aimed at contributing the knowledge of behavior

Developmental Psychology: It studies the human development (ie) physical, emotional, social,
moral, language and personality development across the life span that is from conception
to death.
Social Psychology: The field focuses on interpersonal behavior and the role of social forces in
governing behavior.
Physiological Psychology: Examines the influences of genetic factors on behavior and role of
brain, nervous system, endocrine system and bodily chemicals like the neuro transmitters
in the regulation of behavior.
Abnormal Psychology: It studies the models, causes, classification diagnosis and treatment of
individuals with psychological disorders mostly in classroom settings.
Experimental Psychology: It deals chiefly to laboratory research on basic psychological
processes including Perception, Learning, Memory, Thinking, Motivation and Emotion.
Psychometrics: It is concerned with the measurement of behavior and capacities usually through
the development of psychological tests.
Cognitive Psychology: It mainly focuses on Higher Mental Processes such as Memory,
Reasoning, Information processing, Language, Decision Making etc.
Personality Psychology: The field is interested in describing and understanding individual’s
consistency in behavior which represents their personality.
APPLIED PSYCHOLOGY: We make use of various fields of basic psychology to improve the
quality of life of the human beings in various settings.
Clinical Psychology: It is concerned with the evaluation, diagnosis and treatment of individuals
with psychological disorders.
Counselling Psychology: It overlaps with clinical psychology in that specialist in both areas
engage in similar activities – Interviewing, Testing and Providing Therapy.
Educational Psychology: It is mainly devoted to the understanding of the different aspects of the
Teaching – Learning Process. Application of Principles, Techniques and methods of
psychology to the Teaching – Learning Process.
Industrial Psychology: It is the study of individuals at work in industry and in other business and
commercial organizations.
 It is concerned with Recruitment, Selection and Placement of workers, Working
conditions, Principles of training, Physiological, Psychological and social factors affecting
individual efficiency.
Organizational Psychology: It is the study and to solve the different organizational problems.
Consumer Psychology: it deals with the behavior that consumers display in searching for
purchasing, using, evaluating and disposing of products, services and ideas that they
expect will satisfy their needs.
Health Psychology: That deals with the role of psychological factors in promotion of health and
prevention of illness.
Environmental Psychology: It deals with the effects on behavior of Crowding, Noise and Air
pollution.
Forensic Psychology: It is an applied psychology to the legal system
Sports and Exercise Psychology: Applied Psychology to athletic activity and exercises and it
considers the role of motivation.
Psychology of Women: It deals with Psychological factors relating to women’s behavior and
development, it tries to explain various issues like discrimination against women, causes
of violence and so on.