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Sean asked in Social SciencePsychology · 8 years ago

What field of Psychology is this?

I am interested in learning and working on how the mind works. Not necessarily the chemistry but the actual thought process the human mind uses. I want to study on this particularly but I'm not sure the exact field this area is called. Just to learn more on why we do what we do and think what we think and why we do so at certain times.

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  • Anonymous
    8 years ago
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    A lot of what you mention makes me believe you would like Cognitive Psychology. Cognitive Psychology falls under Experimental Psychology (along with fields such as Social and Developmental). Cog Psych studies internal mental processes, it looks into how people perceive, remember, think, speak, and solve problems. It has a lot of neural anatomy as well as neuroanatomy. Pretty much all fields will have some content on neurochemistry (it is a HUGE aspect of behavior and psychopathology).

    I would really suggest just researching the fields and seeing which one sounds most interesting. Psychology falls under two areas: applied and experimental. Applied psychology is where you actually apply the knowledge to patients (where you need a license) and experimental is focused on research.

    APPLIED

    Clinical, which can include health, child-clinical, geropsychology, and neuropsychology and forensic psychology. There are some that combines specialities such as forensic neuropscyhology.

    Counseling

    School

    EXPERIMENTAL

    Cognitive

    Social

    Personality

    Developmental

    Industrial/Organizational Psychology (this can be considered Applied in a way, but no license required)

    Engineering/human factors

    Sports (same as I/O)

    Educational (it is different from school)

    Biopsychology, physiological psychology, neuroscience (all pretty much the same)

    Source(s): psychologist
  • 8 years ago

    It's not a specific feild in Psychology it's just a part of Psychology so study Psycgology and you'll take all about the human mind and how people act and even some Neuroscience

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