Question

1. Compare and contrast the fields of clinical psychology and counseling psychology. Describe each specialization. In what ways are they similar? In what ways do they differ? Include three similarities and three differences in your answer.

2. When psychologists conduct scientific studies, they have one of three goals: to describe, to correlate, or to experiment. Describe each goal, including how they differ from one another.

3. You're sitting in the theater watching a movie when the fire alarm goes off. You jump and get out of your seat to leave the theater, but the alarm stops and an announcement is made that the alarm was unintentional and there is no emergency. You calm down and go back to enjoying your movie.

Name and explain the roles of the divisions of the autonomic nervous system in your responses.

4. Explain two ways in which the left and right hemispheres of the cerebrum differ in function.

5. Define and differentiate between sensation and perception. Use an example to illustrate your descriptions. Be sure to use the term that describes the conversion of environmental energy into neural signals.

6. Define and differentiate between bottom-up and top-down processing. Give an example of each in a single sensory experience.

Answer 1

1). Clinical psychology is the branch that deals with the diagnosis and treatment of different mental, psychological and emotional disorders and disabilities. Counselling psychology is the branch of psychology which deals with functioning be it personal or interpersonal during the life course. The differences between clinical psychology and counselling psychology are

(a). Clinical psychology focuses on dealing with people with more pathological symptoms, serious psychological problems while counselling psychology focuses on healthy side of individuals who have less serious psychological problems who can be treated with counselling and don't need much medical intervention.

(b). Clinical psychology uses more psychoanalytical persuation and behavioral issues while counselling psychology have more humanistic and patient focusing approach.

(c). Clinical psychology researches are focused on psychopathological issues while counselling psychology researches focus on cross cultural psychology, vocational assessments etc.

The similarities between clinical psychology and counselling psychology are:-

(a). Both practice same ethical and legal guidelines provided by the state.

(b). Research works are done in same type of settings.

(c). The training process of both fields of psychology are the same.

4). Left hemisphere of the cerebrum the right side of the body while the right hemisphere of the cerebrum controls the left part of the body. Right hemisphere of cerebrum deals with visual processing, spatial abilities, music etc while the left hemisphere of the cerebrum deals with the logical abilities, calculations etc.