NCVPS Psychology Final Paper
Module 1A
In the first module we have explored the topics of perspectives, careers, and ethics in psychology. A perspective in psychology is the way in which psychologists choose to approach the study of human behavior. Such perspectives would be socio cultural, biological, psychodynamic, behavioral, cognitive, and humanistic. To go along with the lesson on perspectives we had to pick an outrageous celebrity and explain their behavior in reference to the different perspectives. For the assignment, I chose to do Britney Spears, and I explained how each perspective would describe her behaviors and cognitive thinking. In this module we further explored careers in psychology such as sports psychologists to clinical and counseling psychologists, and where psychologists could be employed. Psychologists have a code of ethics, there is 10 standards but yet in still broken down further, one of the most important is informed consent which the participants would read so that they know what they will be getting into. Since I am quite interested in psychology these concepts helped me figure out in what pathway I would like to go in (social psychologist). This learning has changed my behavior by making me see that there are many ways in seeing/describing human behavior. Therefore, before I judge I see things as a psychologist would- similar to Maslow’s interest in self-actualization.
Module 1B
In module 1B there were two major concepts, correlation and descriptive statistics, and evaluation of research. (Correlation and descriptive statistics) Research methods fall three categories which are descriptive, correlation, and experimentation. Experimentation is basically the scientific method which allows manipulation of factor of interest, and control of other factors. Descriptive would include case studies and surveys. Descriptive includes sampling which is essential to this type of research, if done correctly a random sample could provide you with accurate results
In the first module we have explored the topics of perspectives, careers, and ethics in psychology. A perspective in psychology is the way in which psychologists choose to approach the study of human behavior. Such perspectives would be socio cultural, biological, psychodynamic, behavioral, cognitive, and humanistic. To go along with the lesson on perspectives we had to pick an outrageous celebrity and explain their behavior in reference to the different perspectives. For the assignment, I chose to do Britney Spears, and I explained how each perspective would describe her behaviors and cognitive thinking. In this module we further explored careers in psychology such as sports psychologists to clinical and counseling psychologists, and where psychologists could be employed. Psychologists have a code of ethics, there is 10 standards but yet in still broken down further, one of the most important is informed consent which the participants would read so that they know what they will be getting into. Since I am quite interested in psychology these concepts helped me figure out in what pathway I would like to go in (social psychologist). This learning has changed my behavior by making me see that there are many ways in seeing/describing human behavior. Therefore, before I judge I see things as a psychologist would- similar to Maslow’s interest in self-actualization.
Module 1B
In module 1B there were two major concepts, correlation and descriptive statistics, and evaluation of research. (Correlation and descriptive statistics) Research methods fall three categories which are descriptive, correlation, and experimentation. Experimentation is basically the scientific method which allows manipulation of factor of interest, and control of other factors. Descriptive would include case studies and surveys. Descriptive includes sampling which is essential to this type of research, if done correctly a random sample could provide you with accurate results