Intro to Social Psychology

a multifaceted discipline that studies how human beings think, behave and interact with one another

• Psychology

• Psychiatry

Known as "The "Father of Experimental Psychology", opened the Institute for Experimental Psychology at the University of Leipzig in Germany in 1879.

• Wilhelm Wundt

• Normal Triplett

• Floyd H. Allport

• William Lyle

a Canadian settler from Scotland and professor at Dalhousie University published the first basic psychology text in Canada in 1855, "Intellect, The Emotions and The Moral Nature".

• Wilhelm Wundt

• Norman Triplett

• Floyd H. Allport

• William Lyle

known as the "pioneer" of social psychology directed the first doctoral program in social psychology in the United States

• Wilhelm Wundt

• Norman Triplett

• Floyd H. Allport

• William Lyle

a psychologist at Indiana University. In 1898, he wrote what is now recognized to be first published study in the field of social psychology

• Wilhelm Wundt

• Norman Triplett

• Floyd H. Allport

• William Lyle

Counselling Psychology concerns...

• individual’s personal problems that do not involve psychological disorders

• all aspects of cognition-memory,

  thinking, reasoning, language, decision making, etc.

• how people change physically, cognitively, and socially over their entire life span

• diagnosis, causes, and treatment of mental disorders

Developmental Psychology concerns...

• individual’s personal problems that do not involve psychological disorders

• diagnosis, causes, and treatment of mental disorders

• thinking, reasoning, language, decision making, etc.

• how people change physically, cognitively, and socially over their entire life span

Clinical Psychology concerns...

• how people change physically, cognitively, and socially over their entire life span

• individual’s personal problems that do not involve psychological disorders

• diagnosis, causes, and treatment of mental disorders

• thinking, reasoning, language, decision making, etc.

Industrial/Organizational Psychology concerns...

• all aspects of behavior in the work setting

• all aspects of the education process

• all basic psychological processes, including perception, learning, and motivation

• all aspects of behavior in the sports setting

Experimental Psychology concerns...

• all aspects of behavior in the work setting

• all aspects of behavior in the sports setting

• all basic psychological processes, including perception, learning, and motivation

• all aspects of the education process