Objectives for opting Psychology

Understanding of mental problems and it's solution

Assist and benefit humanities, the natural sciences and the social sciences

Estimate common sense knowledge about how people function

Psychology helps to understand both current situation and historical field.

Students can go through these objectives in mind while opting for correspondence courses in psychology. Candidates who want to have psychology as their main career can also go through the online psychology courses to which they can get the online psychology degree, for online psychology degree you can get a certified degree from the international universities only by sitting at your home and giving the online exams. The online psychology degree programme is unlike a traditional classroom-based program because classroom lectures will be mimicked by pre-recorded audio or video files or substituted entirely by readings. Professors in an online psychology degree program use Internet message boards to post readings from psychology journals, important passages from psychology textbooks and any other important writings about the field. They also give out assignment deadlines and details through online services, such as Blackboard and e-mail. Many professors will set up some kind of communication service between students and themselves to create simulated class discussions. This may take the form of a forum system or a more immediate real-time electronic chat system.

For the students who want to have distance learning psychology courses in India, can opt various courses in psychology in different open universities.

For students who want to have distance learning psychology courses in India

Undergraduate courses

Bachelor of Arts Honors in Applied Psychology

Bachelor of Arts in Applied Psychology

Post graduate courses

Master of Arts in Applied Psychology

Master of Arts in Counseling Psychology

Master of Arts in Psychology

M.Sc. in Psychology

M. Sc. in Psychological Counseling (Self Financing Course)

Diploma courses

P.G. Diploma in Psychological Counseling (PGDPC)

PG and advanced diploma in psychology

The students who want to have distance learning psychology programme that offer the above courses can apply in these universities

Bangalore University

Mumbai University

Vinayaka Mission

Nalanda Open University

Andhra University

Bangalore University

Kuvempu University

Osmania University

Vinayaka Mission

Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU)

Nalanda Open University

Karnataka Open University

Psychology aims at understanding how people think, feel and act in different situations. Psychological research is empirically driven, which means that knowledge is constructed by examining how people actually think and behave. Several methods are used for this purpose, such as: experiments, interviews, observations and questionnaires. The methods may be qualitative in nature, but more often they use quantitative methods and statistics. Through distance learning course in psychology the candidates can specialize themselves in some of the fields after doing the masters in psychology

Clinical psychology

Educational psychology

Child psychology

Occupational psychology

Experimental psychology

Social psychology

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