How do I decide on a specific area of psychology?
As you prepare for graduate school, you will have questions: How do I prepare for graduate school? How do I apply to graduate programs? Students normally expect these questions and ask professors for help. Students are often surprised by one question: How do I decide on a specific area of psychology?
As students learn more about psychology, they realize psychology has a number of subfields, and our discipline overlaps with a number of other disciplines (e.g., business, biology, education). Consequently, narrowing your interests can be a challenge, and students are surprised by how difficult it is to decide which programs interest them enough to merit paying the application fees. One of the best tools in this process is information, and you can read brief summaries about a variety of subfields and learn more from the websites of the APA Divisions.
On this webpage, I provide links to videos that introduce a variety of subfields of psychology. As you learn more about these areas, you can see how they are similar and different, which will help you make a well-informed decision.
As students learn more about psychology, they realize psychology has a number of subfields, and our discipline overlaps with a number of other disciplines (e.g., business, biology, education). Consequently, narrowing your interests can be a challenge, and students are surprised by how difficult it is to decide which programs interest them enough to merit paying the application fees. One of the best tools in this process is information, and you can read brief summaries about a variety of subfields and learn more from the websites of the APA Divisions.
On this webpage, I provide links to videos that introduce a variety of subfields of psychology. As you learn more about these areas, you can see how they are similar and different, which will help you make a well-informed decision.