For this milestone, you will conduct a career paths analysis. You will research job descriptions that are related to psychology and identify one job description that requires strong EI skills.
Specifically, you must address the following rubric criteria:
Summarize a psychology-related job description by providing the following details:
Job title
Prerequisites for the job (knowledge, education, skills, and abilities needed to successfully perform the job)
Primary industry or type of business
PSY 108 Overview of Psychology Subdisciplines
In this milestone, you will identify one job description that requires strong emotional intelligence (EI)
skills—tools that you know will benefit you as you strive to optimize productivity, performance, and
relationships in the workplace. Remember, the job does not have to be in the field of psychology, but
could be in a field in which psychological knowledge is frequently applied (e.g., personal financial
advisors, probation officers, human resource specialists).
As you explore appropriate job descriptions, feel free to refer to the below list of psychology
subdisciplines (including overviews and examples) to guide you:
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Behavioral Genetics
By understanding the interaction between our genes and our lifestyle choices, we can gain more
comprehensive insight into human behavior (e.g., personal training, health coaching,
nutrition/dietetics, physical therapy).
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Cognitive Behavioral
By changing our patterns of thinking and behavior, we can change the way we feel and decrease
the power of the stressor (e.g., mental health, chemical addiction).
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Cross-Cultural
By understanding the individual differences and similarities among people of various cultures,
we can reduce or eradicate bias, prejudice, and discrimination (e.g., racial and ethnic diversity,
linguistic diversity, religious diversity).
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Developmental/Life span
By examining human development, we can better understand how cognition, affect, and
behavior are influenced by constancy and change across the life span (e.g., children, older
adults).
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Education
By observing how people learn, we can better support individual differences in learning, the
instructional process, and outcomes (e.g., accessibility, bullying, no child left behind).
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Engineering/Human Factors
By adapting technology to the work setting, we can enhance work performance, productivity,
and satisfaction (e.g., designing ergonomic technology to promote educational or workplace
accessibility).
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Gender
By moving away from a binary perspective, we can better understand how gender is the result
of a complex combination of biological, cognitive/affective, and sociocultural factors (e.g.,
women’s issues, such as domestic partner violence, sexual assault, rape, equal pay; men’s
issues, such as violence, depression, PTSD; LGBTQ issues; transgender issues; gender non-binary
issues).
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Health
By understanding health as a collectively biological, psychological, and social phenomenon, we
can adopt a more integrative/holistic view of health (e.g., various medical professions, holistic
health, complementary or alternative medicine).
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Industrial/Organizational
By studying human behavior within organizations, we can generate practical solutions to solving
problems within the workplace (e.g., training and development, career development, human
resources, human performance).
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Neuroscience
By examining the connection between the brain and behavior, we can better understand the
influence of our nervous system on our cognitive, affective, and social functioning (e.g.,
pharmacology, food research, veterinary medicine).
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Personality
By examining whether personality is fixed or fluid, we can better understand whether
personality traits are more or less useful than situational or environmental influences for
predicting behavior (e.g., counseling, mediation, conflict resolution, leadership).
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Social
By analyzing how our thoughts, feelings, and behaviors are impacted by the presence of others
(real or imagined), we can better understand this influence on our attitudes, beliefs, and choices
(e.g., politics, advertising and marketing, public relations, social services).
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