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# Psychology ## Medical - Applies psychology to the management of patients with medical problems - Paranormal Studies documents and events related to supernatural - Provides possible explanations. ## Personality - Personality dynamics, appuifestoheories of personality - Does psychological Testing...

# Psychology ## Medical - Applies psychology to the management of patients with medical problems - Paranormal Studies documents and events related to supernatural - Provides possible explanations. ## Personality - Personality dynamics, appuifestoheories of personality - Does psychological Testing, assess and intervention learning disabilities ## School - Learning disabilities ## Sensation and Perception - Sensory and perception process ## Social - Human Social behavior, attitudes, aggression, attraction, group dynamics, etc. ## Sports - How mind affects physical activity particularly athletic performance (APA) # Methods used in Psychology Studies. - Naturalistic Observation - Archival Research - Survey Questionnaire - Experimental Method - Case Study - Correctional Method - Phenomological # Neurological Bases of Behavior ## Nervous System - Complex communication network controlling the body - Internal environment as well as its response to surrounding ## Neurons/Nerve Cells - Basic Unit of Nerve Cells - 10 billion - 1 trillion - Biological battery - Work electrically - 50,000 dies a day ## Stimulus - Object/Energy - Excite our senses - 3 Types of - Sensory/Afferent - Transmit Impulses - Interneuron/Association Neuron - Commonly known - Received signals - Send Impulses - Motor/Efferent - Carry outgoing - To the effector