Question

1)

Define the term Psychology and briefly describe its four goals.

2)

Choose three fields or jobs in psychology and describe what they do.

3)

Choose three modern perspectives in psychology and describe the focus of each.

           4)    You are a researcher interested in whether students enrolled in on-campus college courses   

learn more than students enrolled in e-classes (classes taken over the Internet). Design an

experiment that will examine this question. Be sure to identify your independent and dependent

variables. Who will be your control group and who will be your treatment group? Who is your

population? How will you go about sampling this population? Discuss how you will measure

your dependent variable and the procedures you will use to conduct the experiment.

Independent variable:

Dependent variable:

Control group:

Experimental group:

Population:

5) Explain the difference between correlational and experimental research studies. What

conclusions can be drawn from each?   What are the limitations of each type of study?

Answer 1

Question -1

Psychology is secientific study of human mind and human behaiour.the term psychology literal meaning science of soul . J.B Watson defined psychology is secience of Behaviour.

major goal of psychology is

1. To describe:

The simple goal of psychology is describe the behaiour.Therefore, we can better understand what is normal behaiour and what is abnormal behaiour.

To explain major factor to contribute for developing personlality, social behaiour , and mental health problem.

To predict is another primary goal which helps to make pridictiopr of how we think and act.

to change is most important final goal . Psychology strives to change , influennce , of Controll behaiour to make constructive and lasting change of people lives.

Field of psychology:

The field of psychology is diverse and multifaceted.

Clinical Psychology:

it is branch of psychology which deals with assessment and treatment of mental Illness, abnormal behaiour and psychritic disorder.so they are use various therapy and councelling as we as also provide medication for treatment.

Educational Psychology:

It is most prominent field of psychology which deals with school , teacher training , , teaching psychology , concerned to problem of students and educational issue.Educational psychology often work to know how students learn and how to improve students outcome. Besides it also deals with several disablity chilldren.

Social Psychology:

It seeks to explain human social behaiour and looks at diverse topic like group behaiour, social interaction, leadership , nonverbal communication, and social influennce of decision making.it majorly interest to know social influennce of human behaiour.

Diffrence corelational and experimental research studies:

corelational studies is study the relationship between two variable and it does not able to manupulate independent variable where experimental studies study of cause and effect relarionship with two group experimental group and treatment group .Experimental studies unique features is manupulate independent variable.