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Cognitive psychology

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Identify an area of interest in the field of psychology from the following specialty areas below. Students will then complete 1 paragraph describing the specific area of psychology including educational requirements and career opportunities that are available (Please do your research) (Remember pick an area of Psychology that you are interested in)

Clinical psychology
Cognitive psychology
Comparative psychology
Counseling psychology
Developmental psychology
Educational and school psychology
General experimental psychology
Industrial/organizational psychology
Personality psychology
Neuroscience and physiological psychology
Quantitative psychology
Social psychology

Cognitive Psychology

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The Human Factors team for which you work has designed a new visual display for a helicopter cockpit. However, the results from the simulator are not good. Nearly all pilots have encountered problems when trying to find information and perform tasks. Do you think your Human Factors team should use a working-forward or working-backward heuristic to evaluate the design platform? Why or why not? Lauren is a computer programmer and is unable to find the bug in a program she just wrote. What could she be doing that is preventing her from finding the bug? Could mental sets, functional fixedness, and negative transfer be playing a role? How? Have you experienced the benefits of incubation in solving a problem? Explain with an example. Which of the five mechanisms of incubation do you think best captures your experience? How?