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- Title: Where are the Non-Traditional Applied Areas of Psychology in Introductory Psychology Textbooks?
- Author : North American Journal of Psychology
- Release Date : January 01, 2005
- Genre: Education,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 197 KB
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Griggs and colleagues (1994, 1999) found that non-traditional applied areas of psychology have not been adequately represented in introductory psychology textbooks. The purpose of this research was to update and expand the work done by Griggs and colleagues by using current introductory psychology textbooks (N = 57) to examine the amount of content that focused on non-traditional applied psychological areas and including additional non-traditional applied areas that Griggs and colleagues did not use. The second purpose was to compare the representation of the nine non-traditional applied areas to more traditional applied areas. We found that the combined amount of non-traditional applied psychology content makes up only 1.82% of introductory psychology textbooks and each individual subfield makes up only .05% to .75% of the introductory psychology textbooks' content. We also found that the traditional applied areas are receiving much more attention in textbooks in comparison to the non-traditional areas. These findings confirm previous research and this research gives new specific information about nine non-traditional applied areas of psychology. Introductory psychology courses are important because they introduce the scope and relevance of the field of psychology and the various subfields (Buskist, Miller, Ecott, & Critchfield, 1999). Many of those subfields are applied psychology, which can be defined as using psychological knowledge and methods to solve real-world problems (Rathus, 2000). The largest subfields of applied psychology are clinical, counseling, and health psychology, which receive more attention, but there are other non-traditional applied areas that receive little attention. These include advertising, community, educational, engineering, forensic, human factors, industrial-organizational, school, and sport psychology. Unfortunately, too many introductory psychology students are not exposed to these non-traditional applied areas because introductory textbooks are not including much, if any, information about these subfields.