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Psychology study at UMB will help you to do the following and much more!
Help solve real world problems
Explain social issues, address pressing societal needs, and inform public policy or resolve interpersonal and intercultural conflicts using psychological principles
Create and promote interventions in applied settings like schools, hospitals, communities, or companies
Compare and contrast psychology with other disciplines (e.g., biology, economics, political science), including identifying the potential contribution of psychology to collaborations and other fields
Reduce common logical fallacies and biases in thinking that get in the way of accurate conclusions and predictions
Read and summarize complex ideas from psychological sources accurately
Identify reliable and generalizable sources of information
Become an informed consumer of research, able to critique unsupported claims about mental health, thinking, emotions, social interactions, cause and effect, and many other psychological topics
Describe key concepts, principles, and overarching themes in psychology
Use theories to explain and predict behavior
Describe the complexity of the human experience on many levels (cellular, individual, group/system, societal/cultural)
Analyze differences and similarities in behavior and mental processes within and across people and animals
Examine how social, cultural, environmental, and international contexts influence individual differences
Develop a working knowledge of psychology’s major subdisciplines and domains
Become aware of important aspects of history of psychology, central concerns, methods, and theoretical conflicts
Use scientific reasoning, rather than anecdotes to understand psychological phenomena
Understand complex statistical findings and graphs in the context of their level of statistical significance, including the influence of effect size, and explain these findings using common language
Develop innovative and integrative thinking and problem solving
Interpret, design, and conduct basic or more complex psychological research
Recognize the systemic influences of sociocultural, theoretical, and personal biases on the research process and design studies that take the effects of sociocultural factors into effects
the study of the biological bases of behavior and impact of environment on biology in humans and animals
the study of human interactions, group dynamics, and how individuals are influenced by the presence of others
the study of human growth, change over time, and stages of life from birth to old age
the study of individual experience, emotions, personality, and perception to reducing suffering and promoting mental wellness, fulfillment, and personal development
the study of how humans use their minds to process information, including perception, attention, language, memory, thinking, and consciousness
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