1. Psychology: It is a science that studies human psychological phenomena and their psychological functions and behavioral activities under their influence, with outstanding theoretical and practical features. Psychology includes basic psychology and applied psychology.
2. Applied psychology: it is an important branch of psychology that develops rapidly.
Second, the research content is different.
1. Psychology: Its research involves many fields such as perception, cognition, emotion, thinking, personality, behavioral habits, interpersonal relationships, social relations and so on. , but also involves many fields of daily life-family, education, health, society and so on.
2. Applied Psychology: Applied psychology studies the application of psychological basic principles in various practical fields, including industry, engineering, organization and management, market consumption, school education, social life, medical care, sports, military affairs, justice, environment and other fields.
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The difference between basic psychology and applied psychology;
1, the former is mainly studied from the individual perspective, and the latter is analyzed from the class perspective. The collection of individuals constitutes a stratum, but it is often individual people who need to solve the confusion in real life. Therefore, from this perspective, there is an intersection between the two, and each field has its own unique side.
2. If you want to do research, you naturally need to study basic psychology first, and then you can continue to study applied psychology in depth. However, different schools have different attitudes towards the same problem.
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