August 20th 2014 Abigail Lewis knowledge to work with with every anyone Basic and Applied Psychology Psychology a discipline that attempts to explain the causes of persons through the scientific method It practices two sciences Basic Science goal to create new knowledge for its own sake most of psych always want to know more Create a BANK of knowledge deposit as much knowledge as possible so that you can have more Accounts Deposits to scientific journal then publish to science world Withdrawals want to share Capital the most important capital is human knowledge a good that can create good Applied Science apply what we already know to the solution of real world problems Clinical Psychology mental anxiety depression Counseling Psychology normal problems finding a major School Psychology finding which class to be in behavioral problems Industrial Organizational Psychology make work organizations work more effectively Basic Applied is relevant to all science Physiology Medicine Physics Engineering Psychology is unusual in combing the two Too simple the interaction between the two that is important Medicine AIDS doctors discovered this This discovery feeds into physiology immunology Questions How will we define psychology this semester Psychology is a discipline that attempts to explain the causes of persons through the scientific method What are the three key terms in our definition of psychology causes persons and scientific method Relative to goals what are the two types of science Basic Applied What is basic science science in which the goal is to create knowledge for its own sake always searching for more knowledge to add to the knowledge bank How can the work of basic scientists be described as an attempt to create a bank of knowledge each person deposits their discovered knowledge into this huge bank of knowledge that other scientists can then withdrawal and use to learn about and build upon What is applied science it is science in which we apply what we already know to the solution of real world problems What are some of the areas of specialization in which psychologists operate as applied scientists Clinical Psychology Counseling Psychology School Psychology and Industrial Organizational Psychology To what extent is the differentiation between basic and applied science relevant to all science It characterizes all science All of science has both basic and applied How is psychology somewhat unique with regard to this contrast between basic and applied science psychology is unique because it combines the two sciences they are in the same discipline In what ways was our analysis of basic and applied science too simplistic You would think only applied scientists apply and only basic scientists discover but they can be intermingled What is the more complicated truth about the relationship between basic and applied science and how does the history of AIDS illustrate that more complicated relationship Scientists can be both basic and applied It s not always easy to tell the difference One example is how the doctors that were treating patients with odd symptoms discovered AIDS They were practicing applied science but then became basic scientists through the discovery of AIDS adding to the bank of knowledge August 20th 2014 Abigail Lewis