Branch of Study Psychology

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Study Psychology is a broad and ambitious science, complemented by biology and neuroscience at its borders with natural sciences and complemented by sociology and anthropology at its border with social science. Some studies of psychology include:

Developmental Psychology

Is a field of psychological studies that studies human development and the factors that shape a person's behavior from birth to old age. Developmental psychology is closely related to social psychology, since most developments occur in the context of social interaction. And also closely related to the psychology of personality, because the development of individuals can form a distinctive personality of the individual.

Social Psychology

This field has 3 scopes, namely:

• studies of social influences on individual processes, for example: the study of perception, learning process motivation, attribution (nature)
• the study of individual joint processes, such as language, social attitudes, imitative behavior and others
• study of group interaction, eg leadership, power relations communication, teamwork, and competition.

Personality Psychology

Is a field of psychological studies that study human behavior in adjusting to the environment, personality psychology is closely related to developmental psychology and social psychology, because the personality is the result of individual development since childhood and how the individual itself in social interaction with the environment.

Cognitive Psychology

Is a field of psychological studies that study the ability of cognition, such as: Perception, learning process, memory skills, attention, language skills and emotions.

The Applied Area

The areas of applied psychology are the areas where psychological studies can be applied. However, unfamiliar Indonesians with specialization make this area of application confusing, for example, an educational psychologist might work on a company's HRD, or vice versa.

Educational Psychology

Educational psychology seeks to create a supportive situation for students in developing academic, socializing, and emotional skills. Which aims to shape the child mindset.

Industrial and Organizational Psychology

Industrial psychology focuses on developing, evaluating and predicting the performance of work done by individuals, whereas organizational psychology studies how an organization influences and interacts with its members.

Engineering Psychology

The application of psychology related to the interaction between man and machine to minimize human error when dealing with the machine (human error).

Clinical Psychology

Is a field of psychological studies and also the application of psychology in understanding, preventing and restoring the individual psychological state to the normal threshold.

Environmental Psychology (behavior)

Environmental psychology is the science of psychology that studies human behavior based on the influence of the environment where he lives, whether the social environment, the built environment or the natural environment. In environmental psychology is also studied about the local culture and wisdom of a place in the view of the universe that affects the attitude and mental human.

Environmental psychology deals with the human needs in everyday life, which include plants, animals, material objects, and humans. There are several things that can cause environmental stress (evironmental stress), for example, the state of the room that will trigger a person's psyche, temperature, atmosphere and nature of light. So the influence of the environment on a person's psychic can be internal, external, and transcendental.

In environmental psychology is also studied about the local culture and wisdom of a place in viewing the universe that affects the attitude and mental human. If local culture and wisdom we understand as human struggle to enhance the quality of life, then introspection will be the main core of the environmental psychology lesson.

The scope of environmental psychology is concerned not only with human, place and human behavior and experience in relation to physical setting but also about design, organization and meaning, or more specific things such as spaces, buildings, neighbors, hospitals and spaces, housing, and settings in other varied scopes. Sociology The environment is a branch of science that is very close to the psychology of the Environment. And there are types of environments in social psychology that are also widely used in environmental psychology, such as:

• Natural circles, such as: oceans, forests and so forth
• Artificial / built environment, such as: highway, pruduk and so on
• Social environment
• Modified environment
• Individual relationship with environment

Individual relationship with the environment is not just walking next door, in the sense that only the environment that has an influence on the individual, the relationship between the individual with the environment there is mutual reciprocity, the environment can affect the individual, but otherwise individuals can also affect the environment. (Walgito, Ben, 1980: 50) The individual's attitude toward the environment is as follows:

-          Individuals refuse or oppose the environment

-          Individuals accept the environment

-          Individuals are neutral

-          These attitudes can change according to individual or environmental development or both.