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Jullie Harvard asked:


The Advantages of Getting an Online Psychology Degree

If you are a professional in human resources, counseling, social work, market research, advertising, sales or any job fields which need a lot of interaction with people and you need to enhance your psychology background in order to do a better job or enhance your job professionalism, a degree in psychology definitely can help you to achieve your goal.

But, you may not want to on hold your current job in order to go back to college or university to earn your psychology degree. Then, you need to look for online psychology degree. The advantages of acquiring an online psychology degree is that you can acquire a degree in psychology without attending a regular class, you need not leave your job to enhance your knowledge in the field of psychology. You can even specialize in any field in psychology.

Advantages of Having a Degree in Psychology

Success in many jobs depends largely upon you, the worker, being successful in understanding, relating to, and working with, people. Thus, a psychology degree will enable you to start out with an above-average interest in people. After all, the understanding of human behavior has been one of the major goals of psychology for a long time. As a psychology degree holder you know something about people and you know how to interact with them. These are characteristics that employers value.

Online Psychology Degree Programs

As the online degree programs increase in popularity, there are many prestigious colleges and universities offer online psychology programs taught by the same faculty who teach in their classrooms. And psychology degree offers through online range from Bachelor to MBAs and Ph.Ds. Like the transitional degree, earning a degree online also has pre-requirement and it varies from one online university to another. For example, you can acquire a master’s degree or doctorate online in psychology if you have a high school diploma or GED with age of 22 years or above and have worked in the field as a fulltime employee. In general, good in written communication skills are needed as online degree program need to do a lot of reading and writing.

Earn Your Psychology Degree Online

Since the introduction of online degree programs, the working or busy people can earn their degree online without the need to stop the current job or work. Various online degrees in psychology will help you to enhance your socialization into the field of psychology through foundational courses and interaction with faculty who are expert professionals in their field. There are many majors in online psychology which you can choose from, you can specialize in fields like clinical psychology, counseling psychology, general psychology, health psychology, organizational psychology or school psychology.

Summary

The online degree in psychology offers the flexibility to deepen your knowledge in psychology without the need to sacrifice you current work or life style.

Visit http://www.studykiosk.com/ for more information on the best listed Distance Learning Programs. Discover the ins and out of attending a “Virtual Classroom” to earn the online degree and how it can help you succeed in realizing our education goals.

John Maxted asked:


With an online psychology degree you possess a huge number of choices for the career path you could become involved in. Psychology has been very popular with students for many decades now. This is to some degree because studying psychology provides insights into standard everyday connections and personal life. It’s also popular because there are a range of excellent advanced degrees (such as masters degrees and PhDs) available and a huge range of different career opportunities you can take. Now, with the ever improving power of the internet and an expansion in online education, there are even more options and outlets than there used to be.

So what exactly is psychology? Psychology is essentially the study of human behavior, in terms of what affects it and how it develops. If you have ever wondered why a person behaved the way they did or what from their earlier experiences led someone to say or do something, then at that instant you were actually thinking about psychology.

It is a fact that when you study psychology you will no doubt learn loads about yourself. You’ll learn how to to interpret your own behavioral patterns and look into your relationships. Using these tools you’ll be able to enhance your personal life.

One possible career path for those pursuing an online bachelor of psychology degree is that of the business psychologist, or the organizational behaviorist. Organizational behavior is the field of study that centers on how a business could improve productivity, success, dependability and pleasure through the environment, benefits and community that the company provides. The knowledge you gain through an online psychology degree will leave you nicely equipped to take on this task.

Psychology offers itself to a diverse range of applications and interesting research studies and experiments are always being undertaken in an effort to learn more. Of course there are also private psychologists, therapists and counselors who meet with clients and patients to discuss their life and to help them solve a range of personal problems.

Careers in criminal psychology, law enforcement and the social services are also widespread and common. Another career option is research and continued study. These are just a few examples of the various career paths available to those with a psychology degree.

Obtaining any one of the available online psychology degree programs is certainly going to give you a great start in pursuing any of these career paths.

A great feature of online programs is ability to speed up your education with an accelerated bachelors degree program. With this, it is possible to finish up your entire curriculum in less than two years, giving you the opportunity to keep your current job for security while you buzz through your education to improve your life.

And there are advanced degree programs, including both masters programs and doctoral programs in psychology. this higher level of qualification is typically needed if you would like to have your own practice or if you want to practice therapy as your career. But generally, an online bachelor degree in psychology is the most popular.

Currently, an online education in psychology is easier to obtain than ever before. With so many different options in your career and life, earning an online psychology degree can benefit you in many different ways. You can progress your personal life and get a more interesting career all at the same time.

naraginti amareswaran asked:


Educational/School Psychology in the Pursuit of Human Well-Being

 

 

Introduction

 

            Now we are living in the technological modern world. With the help of science and technology we have developed in all fields. India is a developing country. We have lot of human resources after China. But the literacy rate is very low when compared to other developed and developing countries in the world. India is a rich country, but Indians are poor. With the help of science and technology and by utilizing all sources in the proper way it is possible to India to become a developed country in the world. In the modern world people living with high tension. The student in schools and colleges are also living with high tension because of heavy competitions. It is necessary to introduce psychology as a general subject in all the classes both at school and college levels. Yoga and meditation is also necessary for each and every one in the world.

Definition of Education

Ø      Education is the learning of human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them?

–        John Ruskin

Ø      Education is a weapon, whose effect depends on who holds it is his hands and at whom it is aimed.

                                                                                                    – Joseph Stalin

The word education is derived from the Latin educare, meaning “to raise”, “to bring up”, “to train”, “to rear”. Education means the gradual process of acquiring knowledge. Education is a preparation for life. Education is also defined as the profession of teaching (especially at a school or college or university).

Importance of Education

India is a union comprised of twenty eight states and seven Territories. The Constitution provides directives regarding the development of education throughout the country. The areas in which the respective central and state governments have domain have been identified in the Constitution as the central list, state list and concurrent list. Until the late 1970s, school education had been on the state list, which meant that states had the final say in the management of their respective school systems. However, in 1976, education was transferred to the concurrent list through a constitutional amendment, the objective being to promote meaningful educational partnerships between the central and state governments. Today, the central government establishes broad education policies for school curricula development and management practices. These serve as guidelines for the states.

 

Generally, at the start of a very young age, children learn to develop and use their mental, moral and physical powers, which they acquire through various types of education. Education is commonly referred to as the process of learning and obtaining knowledge at school, in a form of formal education. However, the process of education does not only start when a child first attends school. Education begins at home. One does not only acquire knowledge from a teacher; one can learn and receive knowledge from a parent, family member and even an acquaintance. In almost all societies, attending school and receiving an education is extremely vital and necessary if one wants to achieve success.

Educational Psychology

Educational psychology is the study of how humans learn in educational settings, the effectiveness of educational interventions, the psychology of teaching, and the social psychology of schools as organizations. Although the terms “educational psychology” and “school psychology” are often used interchangeably, researchers and theorists are likely to be identified as educational psychologists, whereas practitioners in schools or school-related settings are identified as school psychologists. Educational psychology is concerned with the processes of educational attainment among the general population and sub-populations such as gifted children and those subject to specific disabilities

            Educational psychology can in part be understood through its relationship with other disciplines. It is informed primarily by psychology, bearing a relationship to that discipline analogous to the relationship between medicine and biology. Educational psychology in turn informs a wide range of specialities within educational studies, including instructional design, educational technology, curriculum development, organizational learning, special education and classroom management. Educational psychology both draws from and contributes to cognitive science and the learning sciences. In universities, departments of educational psychology are usually housed within faculties of education, possibly accounting for the lack of representation of educational psychology content in introductory psychology textbooks.

Uses of Educational Psychology

For finding Individual differences and Disabilities

            Each person has an individual profile of characteristics, abilities and challenges that result from learning and development. These manifest as individual differences in intelligence, creativity, cognitive style, motivation, and the capacity to process information, communicate, and relate to others. The most prevalent disabilities found among school age children are attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), learning disability, dyslexia, and speech disorder. Less common disabilities include mental retardation, hearing impairment, cerebral palsy, epilepsy, and blindness.

Although theories of intelligence have been discussed by philosophers since Plato, intelligence testing is an invention of educational psychology, and is coincident with the development of that discipline. Continuing debates about the nature of intelligence revolve on whether intelligence can be characterized by a single, scalar factor (Spearman’s general intelligence), multiple factors (as in Sternberg’s triarchic theory of intelligence and Gardner’s theory of multiple intelligences), or whether it can be measured at all. In practice, standardized instruments such as the Stanford-Binet IQ test and the WISC are widely used in economically developed countries to identify children in need of individualized educational treatment. Children classified as gifted are often provided with accelerated or enriched programs. Children with identified deficits may be provided with enhanced education in specific skills such as phonological awareness.

 For Social, Moral and Cognitive Developemnt      

To understand the characteristics of learners in childhood, adolescence, adulthood, and old age, educational psychology develops and applies theories of human development. Often cast as stages through which people pass as they mature, developmental theories describe changes in mental abilities (cognition), social roles, moral reasoning, and beliefs about the nature of knowledge.

For example, educational psychologists have researched the instructional applicability of Jean Piaget’s theory of development, according to which children mature through four stages of cognitive capability. Piaget hypothesized that children are not capable of abstract logical thought until they are older than about 11 years, and therefore younger children need to be taught using concrete objects and examples. Researchers have found that transitions, such as from concrete to abstract logical thought, do not occur at the same time in all domains. A child may be able to think abstractly about mathematics, but remain limited to concrete thought when reasoning about human relationships. Perhaps Piaget’s most enduring contribution is his insight that people actively construct their understanding through a self-regulatory process.

Piaget proposed a developmental theory of moral reasoning in which children progress from a naive understanding of morality based on behavior and outcomes to a more advanced understanding based on intentions. Piaget’s views of moral development were elaborated by Kohlberg into a stage theory of moral development. There is evidence that the moral reasoning described in stage theories is not sufficient to account for moral behavior. For example, other factors such as modeling (as described by the social cognitive theory of morality) are required to explain bullying.

Developmental theories are sometimes presented not as shifts between qualitatively different stages, but as gradual increments on separate dimensions. Development of epistemological beliefs (beliefs about knowledge) have been described in terms of gradual changes in people’s belief in: certainty and permanence of knowledge, fixedness of ability, and credibility of authorities such as teachers and experts. People develop more sophisticated beliefs about knowledge as they gain in education and maturity.

Psychology and Teacher

            Teacher is a national builder. He has a power to change the world through education. According to our Indians teacher is a third god. Teacher plays a prominet role in the development of society. Educational Psychology is a main subject in  teacher education at D.Ed., B.Ed., and M.Ed. levels. It is necessary for each and every teacher to know about psychology. Becausse it is necessary to know the behaviour of the students in the class. Teacher has different roles  like father, advisor, councellor, administrator and well wisher. The future of any country is in the hands of teachers. So it is necessary to give importance for teacher education. So our government introduced psychology subject in teacher education curriculum.

After undergoing the course, the student teacher

1)      Explains psychology and its relationship with Education.

2)      Classifies different branches of psychology and explains their significance.

3)      Explains the importance of heredity and environment and its influences in educational process.

4)      Explains the different aspects of the development of the child.

5)      Explains the growth and human beings and their behaviour.

6)      Describes the individual aspects of the development of the child.

7)      Explains the primary needs of the children.

8)      Explains the secondary needs of the children.

9)      Explains the theories of learning and the factors influencing learning.

10)  Explains the concept of socialization.

11)  Explains the different types of learning.

12)  Understands the concept of motivation and the steps to be taken to motivate the children.

13)  Explains attention and its uses.

14)  Develops skill of observation, listening, responding and understanding.

15)  Describes memory, remembering and forgetting and identifies conditions of good memory.

16)  Describes the effects of different methods used for learning process.

17)  Explains thinking process and its uses-perception, conception, apperception for different ages.

18)  Explains the role of creativity and its development.

19)  Explains the meaning of intelligence and understands the changing concept of intelligence.

20)  Enhances personality development of pupils.

21)  Describes the mental hygiene and mental health.

22)  Understands exceptional children and their significance.

23)  Practices guidance and counseling for school pupils.

Conclusion

          Educational psychology is an application of the principles of psychology for effective learning and modification of behaviour on desirable dimensions.  Knowledge of educational psychology makes a teacher effective in motivating the pupils in their learning.  In short it is an inseparable part of strategy in education. Education gives knowledge, wealth and health. Education is a solution for all types of problems in the society. Through education only it is possible overall development of a person in the society. Through education it is easy to know about behavour of the students and persons in the society with the help of psychology. So it is necessary to study psychology all persons in the society in the modern world. Educational Psychology helps the overall development of the student.

References

1. Educational psychology a cognitive view by Asubel, D.P. 

2..Element of educational psychology by Bhatia, H.R. 

3. Psychology applied to teaching by Bichler, R.F. 

4. Educational psychology by Cole, E.C. and Bruce, W.F.

5. http:/ www.google.com

 

 

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Tis Amit asked:


If you think that the only career option for a psychologist is to have a faculty position in a college or university, think again. These days, an individual who earned a psychology degree from one of the many schools in the nation does have a good number of career options to choose from.

To have an idea about the career paths that someone who earned a psychology degree can take, here is a list of some of the top majors that you can focus on:

Clinical Psychology

Forensic Psychology

School Psychology

Industrial-Organizational Psychology

Cognitive Psychology

Sports Psychology

As you can see, once you finish a psychology degree one of the top schools, you do have a variety of career paths to pursue – aside from being a staff at a counseling school or a university faculty member.

Tips to Remember when Considering which Career Option to Take

Now, if you are a psychology major who is taking up courses at a psychology school or a counseling school, there are a few things that you need to keep in mind when choosing which career path to pursue after finishing your degree.

Some of the most interesting careers that you can have include being an experimental psychologist in a science research firm or a rehabilitation center. If you have a flair for words yet you took up psychology majors at the same time, you can be a science writer.

If you are interested in serving the government, you can be a police psychology in the federal government. Market research consultants, professors in counseling schools, human factors experts, policy scientists, design psychologists, NASA research scientists – these and more are some of the career paths that you can take if you take up majors subjects in the school of your choice.

There’s no doubt that studying the human psyche is afield which is not for everybody – but you can turn it into an excellent career by choosing one of the many career options that you can actively pursue in the future.

Helping Psychology asked:


When it comes to graduate school, there are some really viable, creative options out there for people who need financial aid and want to put in some extra work. For many students, a teaching fellowship seems strange and out of the question. Most don’t know if they have what it takes to actually teach the material, and many people have never considered actually being in charge in a classroom setting. But teaching fellowships are taken every single day by people who didn’t know if they were capable, and usually those people end up enhancing their graduate experience and making a little bit of money for themselves in the process.

So what are the ways that a teaching fellowship can benefit students who want to study psychology? First and foremost, we have to deal with the realities of cost. Fellowship programs will offer aid assistance in a couple of different ways, depending upon the university and how they conduct their finances. Some will provide a direct form of tuition assistance, applying something of a credit to a student’s bill and forgoing tuition in exchange for the student’s time spent teaching. Other programs might pay a direct salary, which can be used to offset the costs of going back to school.

One of the other great advantages of taking a teaching fellowship in psychology is that it provides great, paid on the job training for any career in academia. Let’s face it – psychology is a field steeped in academics. The teaching opportunities at the college level for people with a graduate degree in psychology are numerous. If it’s your goal or intention to get one of these jobs, then it really helps if you have some experience on your resume. The experience factor looks good to potential employers and it makes you a much more effective instructor if you actually get one of those positions. Even if you aren’t planning on going into teaching, having the instructional experience will help you be competative in the job market.

In general, you need to know that teaching fellowships open up lots of doors that you might not have otherwise explored. When you get out into the working world, you will have a teaching portfolio to fall back on, and you will have developed your own style within the classroom. These are things that you can apply towards part time teaching gigs in the future if you are ever looking for a way to enhance your income. And to boot, if your career heads down a different direction than you planned, and you are asked to become a lecturer in psychology, you will have prior knowledge on how to get the job done.

Gen Wright asked:


search methodology, one that is considered important in thesis writing and one that is deemed relevant before one can begin to accumulate ideas for a psychology essay.

Psychology, as defined, is the study of the mind, and in relation to that, a very broad subject that is both systematic and scientific, that studies the human and animal behavior and mental functions. Based on that description, it actually gives both reader and writer thoughts on how to properly approach a psychology essay. What it should and would focus on, should it be its scientific aspect, or should it be the behavioral aspect?

This applied science is the study of how humans and animals make use of their five senses, how they utilize their brain by thinking, how they learn and how they know. Psychology is a science that is based on observations and theories, and this carries the scientific part of this applied science. Modern psychology, as differentiated is collecting facts and data, to which in turn converts them to psychological theories to try and come up with an explanation on people’s behavior and even attitude. It even, at times, tries to predict and induce a specific thinking for one’s future behavior.

Essay, on the other hand is a short literary composition, wherein a writer focuses on a specific topic, and could possibly convince a reader to agree with the writer’s opinions and viewpoints.

As always, when writing an essay, it should begin with the right topic the writer would want say something about. Remember, as this applied science could concentrate on both parts of psychology, the writer could then try to think on a better approach for the psychology essay. Would the writer choose a topic that would be intent on giving his thoughts on the medical and scientific viewpoint, or would a topic that could be behavioral in nature be something that interests the writer more?

Once a topic has been selected, a research strategy should be arranged and planned. Since one is dealing with an applied science as a type of essay to write, there should be facts to back up what the writer intends to say, that is, should he choose a scientific approach or the human mind’s approach for the essay to be written about.

Before going ahead and creating your psychology essay, produce a draft. Regardless of how esteemed you are in your writing skills, for an applied science, you have to remember that you are writing something that is scientific, hence, technical to a point, and a topic that simply has to be systematic and exact. As always, it is the reader who earns the most. An information essay is and will always be considered an fount of information. Hence, although your psychology essay would undoubtedly voice the writer’s thoughts and opinions on the topic selected for this type of essay, there still has to be pertinent information that the readers can learn out of it.

John Maxted asked:


Today there are plenty of options for accredited online degrees in psychology. Psychology has long been a much sought after field of study for college students. A degree in Psychology offers many benefits which can be applied to a broad spectrum of assorted fields. It also offers the chance to gain advanced degrees such as masters and doctoral degrees and to learn more about yourself and your interactions and relationships. With the expanding popularity of online psychology degrees, you currently have more opportunities than ever before to undertake this education.

So what is psychology? Psychology is actually the analysis of human behavior, in terms of what causes it and how it develops. If you’ve ever thought about why somebody behaved the way they did or which of their earlier experiences led someone to say or do something, then at that instant you were actually thinking about psychology.

Studying psychology allows someone learn things about their own behaviors, along with the opportunity to acquire insight into their own relationships. It can greatly improve your life from just those areas alone, as well as provide a fantastic career.

A potential career opportunity for someone pursuing an online bachelor of psychology degree is that of the company psychologist, or the organizational behaviorist. Organizational behavior is the area of study that centers on how a business could improve output, success, reliability and pleasure through the work environment, benefits and community that the company provides. The knowledge you gain through an online education in psychology will leave you perfectly equipped to handle this type of job.

An alternative career opportunity for people holding online psychology degrees is to be a therapist. This is a very common choice for numerous people, and it frequently requires you to earn an advanced psychology degree such as a PhD or masters degree.

Other potential alternatives include the study of criminal behavior or aiding children and families through social services. Certainly, with a foundation in psychology you could also continue to practice research and experimentation.

The main point here is that there are a large number of different career prospects for people with a background in psychology. Combined with the added flexibility and benefits of online psychology degree programs obtaining an education in psychology has never been easier.

You can get any level of psychology degree through an online program. There are associate degrees available that can be completed in less than twelve months and that permit you to employ new skills to your line of work. Also available are bachelors degree courses that can be completed in 24 months and can give you a head start in a number of diverse careers.

You can even get an associates degree in psychology to boost your current career and climb the ladder. The level of online degree you end up pursuing depends very much on what career or careers you are interested in. But in general, an online bachelor of psychology degree is the most popular level of degree.

With the huge selection of accredited psychology degrees available online in today’s day and age, your career prospects are infinite. And remember that you’ll also improve your personal life with the understanding you gain from studying psychology. Now is the perfect time to launch or carry on your education in the field of psychology.