Running Head: Military Psych Applied Areas of Psychology: Military Psychology Drew University Keira M. Driscoll 11/30/08 Military psychology is an area of applied psychology that is somewhat difficult to define due to the large area of activities in its field that it covers. Military psychology covers psychological research‚ assessment‚ and treatment. The field of military psychology is used not only with soldiers but with civilians (Strickland & Cengage‚ 2001)
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Military Psychology Military psychology is a broad market of psychology in which virtually any and all subfields of psychology where the lessons of personality‚ organizational and abnormal psychology among others are applied to the needs or desires of military planners and strategists. Reasons for their application may be immediate or sustained. The application of psychological research or theory to the military can be used to analyze either enemy or friendly forces‚ exemplified by perfecting an
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Military Compensation versus Civilian Compensation Military Compensation versus Civilian Compensation The advantages of a career in the U.S. military greatly outweigh working in a civilian career when considering compensation such as education‚ salary‚ health care‚ and retirement. In today’s economy‚ everyone is looking to receive the most from his or her employer. A person wants a salary that can provide for his or her family‚ a healthcare plan with little
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joined the military would my life be different?” Now when people think of the military they think of going to war and getting yelled at‚ but there are so many differences between military life and civilian. Most people sometimes believe that military life and civilian life are the same. Now there are a lot of differences their occupational life‚ living expense and some the freedoms they have. Occupational life is an example of differences between military and civilian life. In civilian life‚ you
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over troop’s heads. One more morning that doesn’t allow extra sleep. These are thoughts that are going through military member’s heads as they are herded down to chow like a bunch of cattle. They had a choice to become a respected member of the military community or fight for college and rent money out in the civilian world. Leading a "normal" life is a big decision. The option of military is thrown into senior’s heads pre graduation. This is the time to outweigh the pros and cons of such a life changing
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huge differences compared to being in the civilian life. There are many differences and there are some things that are the same‚ being in the Army and being in civilian life. The average day for a US Army Soldier consists of waking up at 0400 hours in the morning being to first formation; accountability formation by 0630 hours. Then from 0630 to 0730 hours a Soldier will do Physical Readiness training (PRT)‚ wear as the average wake up time for a civilian would be around 0630 to 0700 hours. The Soldier
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Military Life vs. Civilian Life When we think about the military these days‚ normally the first thing that comes to mind is war. However‚ when we think about the civilian world the one thing that stands out is freedom. As a result‚ in order to maintain that freedom we must have our military go out and fight wars. There are many differences between our military and the civilian life; nonetheless‚ similarities do exist. A few that will be discussed pertaining to military and civilian life are how
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PSYCHOLOGICAL AND PHYSIOLOGICAL EFFECTS OF COMBAT Introduction 1. Psychology at the beginning of the twenty-first century has become a highly diverse field of scientific study and applied technology. The pursuits of behavioral scientists range from the natural sciences to the social sciences and embrace a wide variety of objects of investigation. As a subject of psychology‚ the psychological phenomenon is also called as mental activity‚ which falls in the domain of human mentality. It reveals
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Psychology is a topic that many people have heard of and been exposed to without ever researching for themselves. In fact‚ many people base their ideas about psychology‚ and particularly psychologists‚ on things they have seen in popular media sources such as television shows and movies. However‚ these portrayals are much different than the norms of reality. For this project‚ I chose to examine and discuss two popular psychology careers that are often seen in the world of media and entertainment:
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Civilian vs military leadership As defined in chapter 1‚ leadership is a process whereby an individual influences a group of individuals to achieve a common goal. For a leaders to effectively lead a group of individuals‚ they should have qualities traits such ability to motivate others‚ excellent communications skills‚ be able to think fast in difficult situations‚ and be able to understand their followers needs. To a civilian‚ a leader takes the form of bosses at work‚ politicians on TV‚ or local
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