ELEMENTS OF HUMAN FACTOR

Clinical psychology- is an integration of science, theory and clinical knowledge for the
purpose of understanding, preventing, and relieving psychologically based distress
or dysfunction and to promote subjective well-being and personal development. Central
to its practice are psychological assessment, clinical formulation, and psychotherapy,
although clinical psychologists also engage in research, teaching, consultation, forensic
testimony, and program development and administration. In many countries, clinical
psychology is a regulated mental health profession.

Experimental psychology- refers to work done by those who apply experimental

methods to psychological study and the processes that underlie it. Experimental
psychologists employ human participants and animal subjects to study a great many
topics, including (among others) sensation &
perception, memory, cognition, learning, motivation, emotion; developmental
processes, social psychology, and the neural substrates of all of these.

Anthropometry- (from Greek ἄνθρωπος anthropos, "human", and μέτρον metron,

"measure") refers to the measurement of the human individual. An early tool of physical
anthropology, it has been used for identification, for the purposes of understanding
human physical variation, in paleoanthropology and in various attempts to correlate
physical with racial and psychological traits. Anthropometry involves the systematic
measurement of the physical properties of the human body, primarily dimensional
descriptors of body size and shape. Alphonse Bertillon (1853–1914) is considered to be
the father of anthropometry because of his many contributions to the field, including
what we know today as the “mug shot.”

Computer science- is the study of the theory, experimentation, and engineering that
form the basis for the design and use of computers. It is the scientific and practical
approach to computation and its applications and the systematic study of the feasibility,
structure, expression, and mechanization of the methodical procedures (or algorithms)
that underlie the acquisition, representation, processing, storage, communication of,
and access to information. An alternate, more succinct definition of computer science is
the study of automating algorithmic processes that scale. A computer
scientist specializes in the theory of computation and the design of computational
systems.

Cognitive science- is the interdisciplinary, scientific study of the mind and its
processes. It examines the nature, the tasks, and the functions of cognition. Cognitive
scientists study intelligence and behavior, with a focus on how nervous systems
represent, process, and transform information. Mental faculties of concern to cognitive
scientists include language, perception, memory, attention, reasoning, and emotion; to
understand these faculties, cognitive scientists borrow from fields such
as linguistics, psychology, artificial intelligence, philosophy, neuroscience,
and anthropology. The typical analysis of cognitive science spans many levels of
organization, from learning and decision to logic and planning; from neural circuitry to
modular brain organization. The fundamental concept of cognitive science is that
"thinking can best be understood in terms of representational structures in the mind and
computational procedures that operate on those structures.

Safety engineering- is an engineering discipline which assures that engineered

systems provide acceptable levels of safety. It is strongly related to industrial
engineering/systems engineering, and the subset system safety engineering. Safety
engineering assures that a life-critical system behaves as needed, even when
components fail.

Industrial and organizational psychology (I/O psychology)-, which is also known as

occupational psychology, organizational psychology, and work and organizational
psychology, is an applied discipline within psychology. I/O psychology is the science of
human behavior relating to work and applies psychological theories and principles to
organizations and individuals in their places of work as well as the individual's work-life
more generally. I/O psychologists are trained in the scientist–practitioner model. They
contribute to an organization's success by improving the performance, motivation, job
satisfaction, and occupational safety and health as well as the overall health and well-
being of its employees. An I/O psychologist conducts research on employee behaviours
and attitudes, and how these can be improved through hiring practices, training
programs, feedback, and management systems.

Educational psychology- is the branch of psychology concerned with the scientific

study of human learning. The study of learning processes, from
both cognitive and behavioral perspectives, allows researchers to understand individual
differences in intelligence, cognitive development, affect, motivation, self-regulation, and
self-concept, as well as their role in learning. The field of educational psychology relies
heavily on quantitative methods, including testing and measurement, to enhance
educational activities related to instructional design, classroom management, and
assessment, which serve to facilitate learning processes in various educational settings
across the lifespan.

medical science-
the science of dealing with the maintenance of health and the preventionand treatment
of disease.
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ASSIGNMENT # 1
ELEMENTS OF HUMAN FACTOR

SUBMITTED BY:
CANOZA,JOSHUA DF.
INSTRUCTOR:

Mr.PETER DAVE DELOS REYES