General psychology
Cognitive psychology focuses on the study of mental processes such as thinking, memory, perception, and problem-solving. It seeks to understand how people acquire, process, and store knowledge.
The Gestalt School of Psychology focuses on understanding how people interpret and perceive the world around them as a whole, rather than as individual elements. It emphasizes the importance of context, relationships, and organization in shaping behavior.
B. F. Skinner was part of the behaviorial school of thought. He came up with the idea of operant conditioning.
The term "information science" was coined in the 1950s as a multidisciplinary field that focuses on the collection, organization, storage, retrieval, and dissemination of information. The field emerged in response to the increasing importance of managing information in various forms.
Technically industrial psychology is a subset of psychology. Industrial Psychology first came on the scene in America during WWI in order to efficiently assign troops to different positions such as soldier, medic, or communications officer.
As a formal medical discipline, psychology is somewhat over one hunderd years old. However, people have been interested in the workings of the human mind ever since civilizations came into being, which is about 5000 yeas ago. The Ancient Greeks certainly explored the meaning of the mind.
many Chinese came to Hawaii to work as field hands on plantation fields.
Sigmund Freud made significant contributions to the field of psychology by developing psychoanalysis, a theory of the mind and therapeutic technique for treating mental health disorders. His work on the unconscious mind, defense mechanisms, and the structure of personality have had a lasting impact on psychology and continue to influence the field today.
There were people interested in electricity who came with inventions involving the field.
track field came from a black man
The best way to get experience working with after-schoolers after you just came from graduating from the field and heading into the work field is by volunteering.
Wundt was working with Stainly Hall, and William James came with an idea of functionalism while Titchener came up with idea of structuralism. James and Titchener were debating whether psychology should focus on structuralism or functionalism.