Psychology Subfields Practice

Assessing a student to determine if they struggle with reading comprehension

• counseling psychologist

• school psychologist

• developmental psychologist

• health psychologist

Helping a tech company create an office environment that fosters employee collaboration and morale

• Industrial/

  Organizational psychologist

• Human Factors psychologist

• Experimental psychologist

• Clinical psychologist

Studying which teaching methods will best help students with dyslexia

• Developmental psychologist

• Psychometrics

• Educational psychologist

• Psychiatrist

Providing counseling sessions to help her patient manage the stress of his divorce

• Cognitive neuroscience

• Experimental psychologist

• Personality psychologist

• Counseling psychologist

Working with a patient to find the best combination of medications to treat his schizophrenia

• Psychiatrist

• Health psychologist

• Human Factors psychologist

• Clinical psychologist

Want to investigate which treatment approach is most effective in treating anxiety

• Health psychologist

• Industrial/

  Organizational psychologist

• Experimental psychologist

• Social psychologist

Studying how morality develops at different stages of life

• Cognitive neuroscience

• Developmental psychologist

• Positive psychologist

• Health psychologist

Writing a book about why some people are more extroverted than others

• School psychologist

• Educational psychologist

• Personality psychologist

• Psychometrics

Studying which parts of the brain are involved in recalling long-term memories

• Developmental psychologist

• Health psychologist

• Cognitive neuroscience

• Clinical psychologist

Conducting a study to see how people respond when witnessing a person fall in a public place

• Social psychology

• Personality psychologist

• Human Factors psychologist

• Counseling psychologist