Q 17. Describe any four areas of everyday life where understanding of psychology can be put to practice.
Q 18. What are the goals of psychological enquiry? Give examples.
Q 19. With the help of a diagram explain the steps of a scientific research.
Q 20. What are the various types of data or information that is collected in psychological enquiry?
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17)Some of the areas of everyday life where understanding of psychology can be put into practice are as follows: Psychology helps to understand various personal problems like family, marriage and work sphere. ... Psychological analysis also enables in decision-making for various spheres and cultivating healthy lifestyles
18)Like any scientific research, psychological enquiry has the following goals: description, prediction, explanation, and control of behaviour, and application of knowledge so generated, in an objective manner. Let us try to understand the meaning of these terms.
19)Like any scientific research, psychological enquiry has the following goals: description, prediction, explanation, and control of behaviour, and application of knowledge so generated, in an objective manner. Let us try to understand the meaning of these terms.
20)Psychological researches use different types of data including demographic, environmental, physical, physiological and psychological informations are gathered. In Psychological study the data is located in a context and linked to the theory and method used for its collection. Psychologists use three general methods.
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