Kitsune covered herself a bit better at least until her clone could arrive with a new set of clothes. While waiting, she hoped that her student picked up every little reaction that Keiji gave off, his flustered behavior, his every move. After all if Kahako was trying to study psychology, she’d need to know what affects people. And with Keiji being a typical male, naked or topless women were sure to affect him as they had just clearly seen.
”I won’t make any promises Keiji.” Kitsune said after his outburst.
”You never know what happens with me around~” she said laughing a bit while waiting for her clone to hurry back.
She thought back to when she studied psychology and then perused the bookshelves to find out if the book she used to read was actually there. And lo, there it was, so she grabbed it and opened it on the first page.
[spoilername="First Page"]What is Psychology?
Psychology is both an applied and academic field that studies the human mind and behavior. Research in psychology seeks to understand and explain how we think, act and feel. Applications for psychology include mental health treatment, performance enhancement, self-help, ergonomics and many other areas affecting health and daily life.
In more recent times, psychologists prefer to use more objective scientific methods to understand, explain and predict human behavior. Psychological studies are highly structured, beginning with a hypothesis that is then empirically tested. The discipline has two major areas of focus: academic psychology and applied psychology. Academic psychology focuses on the study of different sub-topics within psychology including personality, social behavior and human development. These psychologists conduct basic research that seeks to expand our theoretical knowledge, while other researchers conduct applied research that seeks to solve everyday problems.
Applied psychology focuses on the use of different psychological principles to solve real world problems. Examples of applied areas of psychology include forensic psychology, ergonomics and industrial-organizational psychology. Many other psychologists work as therapists, helping people overcome mental, behavioral and emotional disorders.
As psychology moved away from its philosophical roots, psychologists began to employ more and more scientific methods to study human behavior. Contemporary researchers employ a variety of scientific techniques including experiments, correlational studies longitudinal research and others to test, explain and predict behavior.
Psychology is a broad and diverse field. A number of different subfields and specialty areas have emerged. The following are some of the major areas of research and application within psychology:
Abnormal Psychology is the study of abnormal behavior and psychopathology. This specialty area is focused on research and treatment of a variety of mental disorders and is linked to psychotherapy and clinical psychology.
Types of Psychology:
- Biological Psychology, also known as biopsychology, studies how biological processes influence the mind and behavior. This area is closely linked to neuroscience and utilizes tools such as MRI and PET scans to look at brain injury or brain abnormalities.
- Clinical Psychology is focused on the assessment, diagnosis and treatment of mental disorders. It is also considered the largest employment area within psychology.
- Cognitive Psychology is the study of human thought processes and cognitions. Cognitive psychologists study topics such as attention, memory, perception, decision-making,problem-solving and language acquisition.
- Comparative Psychology is the branch of psychology concerned with the study of animal behavior. This type of research can lead to a deeper and broader understanding of human psychology.
- Developmental Psychology is an area that looks at human growth and development over the lifespan. Theories often focus on the development of cognitive abilities, morality, social functioning, identity and other life areas.
- Forensic Psychology is an applied field focused on using psychological research and principles in the legal and criminal justice system.
- Industrial-Organizational Psychology is a field that uses psychological research to enhance work performance, select employee, improve product design and enhance usability.
- Personality Psychology looks at the various elements that make up individual personalities.
- School Psychology is the branch of psychology that works within the educational system to help children with emotional, social and academic issues.
- Social Psychology is a discipline that uses scientific methods to study social influence, social perception and social interaction. Social psychology studies diverse subjects including group behavior, social perception, leadership, nonverbal behavior, conformity, aggression and prejudice.
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She closed it, and made a mental note to hand it to Kahako later, so she could study it. Before that, she put it down on her table and then she heard Kahako make the exclamation that she was inadequate so she turned around and saw her pupil touching herself. She giggled and burst into laughter when Keiji got a classic nosebleed.
”Sorry, sorry. I didn’t mean to laugh.” she said and forced herself to stop laughing. Then, with a few light steps more or less vanished from her table and stood behind Keiji, leaning onto his shoulder while reading what he was reading. In other words, she was teasing Keiji by resting her right breast on his shoulder, wondering what his reaction would be to having her that close to him, and in the current state of undress.
After getting his reaction she would return to her table, just as her clone entered with some new clothes. Immediately she put on the bra, but it was a back-closed one, and she never could reach around to close it herself.
”Hey Kahako, could you give me a hand with this?” she asked and turned around, so she would be facing the two younger students, fortunately she was actually covered up this time.
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