Psychology Subfields Quiz

What do brain science and cognitive psychologists study?

• How the human mind thinks, remembers, and learns

• Interactions of people with the environment

• Treatment of complex human problems

• Human behavior in organizations

What is the focus of clinical psychologists?

• Improving interactions with the environment

• Integrating science of psychology with treatment of complex human problems

• Studying human behavior in sports

• Facilitating personal and interpersonal functioning

Which psychologists use science to explore processes behind human and animal behavior?

• Social psychologists

• Forensic psychologists

• Experimental psychologists

• Health psychologists

What do counseling psychologists focus on?

• Understanding brain function and behavior

• Improving educational success

• Facilitating personal and interpersonal functioning across the lifespan

• Promoting health and preventing illness

Which field of psychology is concerned with the interactions between people and the environment?

• Health psychology

• Clinical psychology

• Environmental psychology

• Industrial psychology

What do industrial and organizational psychologists study?

• Interpersonal functioning

• Processes behind animal behavior

• Human behavior in organizations

• Human behavior in sports

Which psychologists help individuals with disabilities and chronic health conditions?

• Rehabilitation psychologists

• Forensic psychologists

• Developmental psychologists

• Quantitative psychologists

What is the main focus of health psychologists?

• Supporting the judicial system

• Studying and developing measurement techniques

• Promoting health, preventing illness, and improving health care

• Improving interactions with technology

What psychological approach focuses on how we encode, process, store, and retrieve information?

• Behaviorism

• Humanistic psychology

• Cognitive psychology

• Psychoanalysis

What is cognitive psychology?

• Perceive, process and remember information through scientific processes
• Focus on biological structures and process
• Focus on the conscious experiences and choices in our lives
• How the natural selection of traits prompted survival of genes