Applied psychology is a psychology aimed at practice, but focused on PSYCHOLOGISTS SPECIALISTS. Applied psychology is, on the one hand, a branch of academic psychology, and on the other hand, borders on practical psychology.
Applied psychology refers to all branches of academic psychology that seek to put the principles, discoveries, and theories of fundamental psychology into practice in related fields, or to discover basic principles that can be applied in this way. Psychologists are united by scientific psychology and stand on its foundation. Applied psychology is the application of the developments of fundamental psychology to practice in areas related to psychology.
These are education (pedagogy), industry (ergonomics), marketing, public opinion polling, sports (sports psychology), personnel service (psychodiagnostics), etc.
It is important that these practical applications are not made for specialists in these fields, but only for psychologists who are related to these fields. Practical applications are written in a professional psychological language, in the language of scientific articles, with the obligatory reliance on the scientific base.
Applied psychology deciphers the provisions of fundamental psychology for their application in practice by psychologists.
Applied and practical psychology
Practical psychology, unlike applied psychology, is focused on a wide contingent of the educated population and their needs, both personal and business. Practical psychology relies not only on a scientific basis, but also on working metaphors that have justified themselves in practice and do not have a scientific basis. See →