2. Definition
• The study of mental processes and
human behavior by observing,
interpreting, and recording how people
and other animals relate to one another
and the environment
3. Psychologists explore concepts
such as
• perception, cognition, attention, emotion,
motivation, brain functioning, personality,
behavior, and interpersonal relationships
4. Psychology v. Psychiatry
• Psychiatrists
– trained medical doctors
– can prescribe medication
• Psychologists
– focus on psychotherapy and treating
emotional/mental suffering in patients
– conduct psychological testing
5. Types of Psychology
Clinical Health Military
Sports Forensic Consumer
Cognitive Personality Global
Educational Social Occupational
6. Psychological Disorders
• Anxiety - excessive and abnormal fear, worry
– Social Anxiety, Post-traumatic stress, Separation Anxiety
• Cognitive - memory, problem solving and perception
– Alzheimer’s, Dementia, Amnesia
• Developmental - childhood disorders
– Mental retardation, Autism, ADHD, Learning disabilities
• Dissociative - interruption in aspects of consciousness, including
identity and memory
– Multiple Personality Disorder
• Eating - concerns with weight and disruptive eating patterns
– Anorexia and Bulimia
• Factitious - individual acts as if he or she has an illness
– Munchausen syndrome
7. Psychological Disorders
continued
• Impulse – control - inability to control impulses, resulting in harm to
oneself or others
– Kleptomania (stealing), Pyromania (fire-starting)
• Mental due to medication
• Mood – Bipolar
• Personality
– Antisocial, Narcissistic
• Psychotic - loss of contact with reality
– Schizophrenia, Delusional disorder
• Sexual and Gender Identity
– Erectile dysfunction
– Paraphilias
• Sleep - interruption in sleep patterns
– Narcolepsy, Insomnia
8. Psychological Tests
• Myer Briggs - most widely use personality assessment
• Rorschach Inkblot Test - analyze personality and
emotional functioning
• Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) -
used by mental health professionals to assess and
diagnose mental illness
• Wechsler Intelligence Scale - The test measures an
individual's cognitive ability, or intelligence quotient (IQ)
Hinweis der Redaktion
Psychologists often concentrate on individual behavior and, specifically, in the beliefs and feelings that influence a person’s actions.
primary physician referral to see a psychologist may refer patient to psychiatrist psychologist and psychiatrist work together to treat patient symptoms
Anxiety -
Narcissistic - unhealthy self-absorption due to a disturbance in the sense of self Paraohilia sexual arousal to objects, situations, or individuals that are not part of normative stimulation
Psychological testing - critical in assessing a person's mental state and determining the most effective course of treatment. Rorschach - poor validity However, effective in the diagnosis of distorted thinking, schizophrenia and bipolar disorder MMPI-2 utilized in other fields, legal cases,screening instrument for certain professions, especially high risk jobs, The MMPI-2 consists of 567 statements to which the subject responds with true, false, or cannot say. cover attitudes on religion and sexual practices, perceptions of health, political ideas, information on family, education, and occupation, and displays of symptoms known to be exhibited by certain groups of mentally disturbed people
