Read and translate the text. Who is a psychologist? A psychologist is a person who deals with psychology

Who is a psychologist? A psychologist is a person who deals with psychology. Psychology is present in different branches of our life, knowing about psychology may not give all the answers but it helps to ask the right questions. A psychologist studies the mind and behaviour to learn more about it. He or she may also work with the people to help solve problems.

Psychologists may be divided into two groups.

Academic psychologists do research. In the research area specializations exist in the following areas: experimental and physiological, developmental, social, personality, cross-cultural psychology. Professional psychologists, on the other hand, use the results of research work and put them into practice.

Psychology is a science with many areas of specialization. The most practiced specialization is clinical and counseling psychology. A branch of medicine that specializes in abnormal behaviour and psychotherapy is psychiatry. Psychiatrists are doctors that use physical treatment like drugs. But clinical psychologists develop programmes to teach people better ways of coping with their lives. Counseling psychologists help people to deal with the stresses of everyday life.

Psychologists who study behaviour and mental processes in the life cycle are developmental psychologists.

Educational psychologists study children’s learning and adjustment.

Health psychology is a very broad area. The aspects of it are health education problems, antismoking campaigns, anti-AIDS campaigns, healthy diets.

Environmental psychologists are specialists in how people are affected by the environment. They act as consultants for new architectural developments, in approaches to reducing crime through the design of the city.

Forensic psychologists deal with many aspects of crime: analyzing the reasons of committing crimes, rehabilitation of criminals.

Sport psychologists work with coaches and sportsmen, advise on how to reduce stress, develop better training systems.

Consumer psychologists study how people spend their money. They take part in designing shops, shelf lay-outs. They do advertising and market research, study how the products can come to the markets.

As we can see, professional psychologists can be found at work in almost any area of dealing with people.

applied psychology – практична психологія

experimental psychology – експериментальна психологія

cognitive psychology – когнітивна психологія

educational psychology – педагогічна психологія

developmental psychology – вікова психологія

abnormal psychology – патопсихологія

forensic psychologists– судові психологи

developmental psychologists – спеціалісти з психології розвитку

behaviour – поведінка

behaviorism – біхевіоризм

activity – діяльність

conscious – свідомий

unconscious – несвідомий

approach – підхід

research – дослідження

sensation – відчуття

EXERCISES

Read and transcribe the following words.

Psychologist, person, deal, branch, research, area, result, psychiatry, treatment, cope, adjustment, campaign, reduce, criminal, coach, analyze, analysis, product, commit, consumer, following, advertising.

Give the Ukrainian equivalents to the words.

Different branches, to solve problems, to do research, following areas, to put into practice, to use physical treatment, to develop programmes, to cope with stress, broad area, healthy diet, to reduce crime, to commit a crime, coaches and sportsmen.