Pros And Cons Of Biological Psychology

There are multiple subfields when it comes to psychology. The subfields that I will be discussing are biological psychology, developmental psychology, personality psychology, cognitive psychology, social psychology, cultural psychology, industrial/organizational psychology, and clinical psychology.
Biological psychology, in simple terms, is when you take in account biological characteristics to understand the behavior of animals and people and how they affect one’s mentality. Biological psychology can be researched in many different ways and for many different reasons. Some ways it can be researched is by debilitating or increasing neural function, evaluating the nervous system’s activity, or by using different genetic manipulation/studying methods. Two examples of what questions are trying to be answered are, “Why do certain neurons affect our biological clocks?” and “What could an imbalance in chemicals in our brains cause?”.
Developmental psychology is the study of how people change and evolve over the course of time and why. Even though developmental psychology includes both the environment and genetics in its study, it has sparked the famous national debate of nature versus nurture. Over the years there has

Social psychology is researched by using many different methods. These methods include observational methods, experimental methods, and correlation methods. However, over the years, some things about social psychology have been deemed unethical. For example, deception, which is when there are false participants, false cover stories, or anything untrue is used to hide or change any part of the research. Despite being slightly ethically questionable, social psychology has had some very well-known experiments like the Muzafer Sherif's Robbers' Cave Experiment, Leon Festinger cognitive dissonance experiment, and the Milgram