Answer to Question #315451 in Psychology for Mubashir

Question

How can studying and practicing psychology contribute to societal advancement?

While reading the above question statement, what were some of the mediational mental processes taking place that enabled you to come up with an answer? Take the written question statement as a stimulus and use the information processing model to help describe each mental process till your response was elicited. Use the following flowchart as a blueprint: (5 marks)

Answer 1

Essentially, psychology helps people in large part because it can explain why people act the way they do. With this kind of professional insight, a psychologist can help people improve their decision making, stress management and behavior based on understanding past behavior to better predict future behavior.