Question

describe some of the areas of everyday life where understanding of psychology can be put to practice.

Answer 1

Some of the areas of everyday life where understanding of psychology can be put to practice are:

→ Psychology helps to understand various personal problems like family, marriage and work sphere and also helps to deal with larger problems related to community, society, national or international.

→ Psychology enables an individual to understand oneself in a balanced and positive way without being reactionary, in order to deal with everyday challenges and meet with personal expectations.

→ It also suggest solutions to a variety of problems related to children, adolescents, adults and the elderly people.

→ It also helps in analysing vital social problems relating to social change and development, population,  poverty, interpersonal or intergroup violence, and environmental  degradation.

→ Psychological principles helps to develop good habits of study for improving your learning and memory, and for solving your personal and interpersonal problems by using appropriate decision- making strategies.

Answer 2

Importance of understanding of psychology in everyday life

Explanation:

• Psychology is highly intertwined in everyday life and knowledge of psychological aspects will certainly help anyone to lead a better life.
• By understanding the personality traits, a person can increase one’s self-understanding or insight of something, understand the human nature in general, and understand other’s behavior.
• Learning about behavioral patterns helps to self-control negative behaviors like anger, frustration etc. and to develop positive behavioral patterns
• Having a better insight about things helps to judge the value of things of everyday life
• Understanding emotional patterns helps a lot to maintain relationships between close relatives, friends etc
• Inculcating both intrinsic and extrinsic motivational skills among students, employees and to anyone will help to perform better in any field