Scope of application of Psychology in different fields

Scope of application of Psychology in different fields with suitable example.

Psychology is the study of mind and behavior. It is an academic discipline and an applied science which seeks to understand individuals and groups by establishing general principles and researching specific cases. The subject-matter of our science is, then, the Soul or Mind. The psychologist investigates those phenomena which we call sensations, perceptions, thoughts, volitions, and emotions; he analyzes them, classifies them, and seeks to reduce them to the smallest number of fundamental activities. He studies the nature of their exercise and the laws which govern their operations, and he endeavours to enunciate a body of general truths which will accurately describe their chief and most characteristic features.

Psychologists explore concepts such as perception, cognition, attention, emotion, intelligence, phenomenology, motivation, brain functioning, personality, behavior, and interpersonal relationships, including psychological resilience, family resilience, and other areas. Psychologists of diverse orientations also consider the unconscious mind. Psychologists employ empirical methods to infer causal and co-relational relationships between psychosocial variables. By many accounts psychology ultimately aims to benefit society.

Psychology encompasses many subfields and includes different approaches to the study of mental processes and behavior.

• Mental testing: It is a routine phenomenon for people of all ages in Western societies. It aspires to criteria including standardization of procedure, consistency of results, output of an interpretable score, statistical norms describing population outcomes, and, ideally, effective prediction of behavior and life outcomes outside of testing situations.
•  Mental health care: a specially trained therapist develops a close relationship with the patient, who discusses wishes, dreams, social relationships, and other aspects of mental life. He seeks to uncover repressed material and to understand why the patient creates defenses against certain thoughts and feelings. In which deep unconscious feelings in a patient reorient themselves and become manifest in relation to the therapist.
• Educational: how humans learn in educational settings, the effectiveness of educational interventions, the psychology of teaching, and the social psychology of schools as organizations.
• Work: study of scientific management techniques for improving workplace efficiency.
• Military and intelligence: one role for psychologists in the military is to evaluate and counsel soldiers and other personnel.
• Health, well-being, and social change: Psychologists in the field of public health use a wide variety of interventions to influence human behavior. These range from public relations campaigns and outreach to governmental laws and policies. Psychologists study the composite influence of all these different tools in an effort to influence whole populations of people.