Psychology is one of the young sciences that is actively developing in the modern world. It is becoming increasingly popular to contact specialists in this field. But to choose it, you need to know the branches of psychology, since each of them studies its own sphere.
General psychology is
the foundation of everything. It is
this industry that studies the individual in terms of personality and cognitive processes. All
psychological sciences begin with general psychology - this is the foundation. Cognitive processes include attention, memory, perception, thinking, imagination, speech, sensation. It is thanks to them that a person can receive and process information. By personality, we mean all the properties that affect the actions and deeds of a person. That is, it is attitudes, dispositions, motivation, temperament, character, will.
There are special branches of psychology that study the theory and practice of parenting. They include psychophysiology, genetic psychology, social, age, medical psychology, psychotherapy, psycho-diagnostics. Each of them has distinctive features and its own sphere of study.
So, social psychology affects the contacts of people among themselves, in the team, their behavior in different situations. This is a comparative young trend in psychological science. But this is a very popular area. The branches of social psychology include the social psychology of groups, the social psychology of personality, as well as the social psychology of communication and interpersonal interaction.
With the development of science, branches of modern psychology began to appear. They also study specific problems. So,
family psychology solves issues of family relationships and relationships between spouses, helps parents and children better understand each other. A medical one studies various pathologies of the psyche, the effect of drugs on humans, and so on.
The branches of psychology affect almost all spheres of human activity: sports, work, leisure, and so on. Also, many of them are closely related to other sciences. For example, at the junction with the natural sciences, there are such branches of psychology as psychophysics, psychophysiology, zoopsychology, psychobiochemistry.
She actively interacts with other sciences, intersects with social sciences. There are such branches of psychology as ethnic, social, economic, political, psychology of art and psi
hologistics. Each of them deals with its own issues.
Despite the fact that psychology is still a humanities science, it actively interacts with medicine. So, psychopharmacology studies the effect of drugs on the human psyche. And pathopsychology deals with the problems of development and various pathologies of the psyche. Neuropsychology solves issues related to the functioning and functioning of the human brain, and also explores which parts of it are responsible for various actions, emotions, feelings experienced by the individual at one time or another.