Impact of technology on psychology

- Technology has had a good impact on psychology since it is possible to maintain active communication in virtual psychological therapies 

-Technology negatively impacts people's social relationships

-Technology has positively impacted psychology as it allows us to find information on this field of study (articles, research, advances)

-The technology of negative impact against the self-esteem of the person because through social networks it finds stereotypes to follow

¿How has the field of psychology changed?

 growth and progress during the last 25 years

-economic conduct

social and emotional factors influence economic decisions and challenged longstanding assumptions that consumers and investors make decisions based solely on self-interest. His work focused particularly on human judgment and financial decision making under conditions of uncertainty.

-educational neuroscience

Uniting researchers from educational psychology, cognitive neuroscience, educational technology, and other disciplines, this emerging field focuses on the interactions between biological processes and education. Researchers in educational neuroscience examine the neural mechanisms of reading, math comprehension, attention, as well as learning disabilities such as dyslexia and attention deficit disorder.

-false memory research

The last 25 years have given way to a plethora of studies showing that memory is not only fallible, but highly suggestible. The most prominent figure in this area is former APS President Elizabeth F. Loftus, who has focused most of her research on the psychological and legal aspects of distorted or false memories. In a series of studies, it has shown how easily memories and beliefs can be shaped. He demonstrated that eyewitness testimony is often unreliable and subject to contamination and manipulation.

-behavioral epigenetics

In 2004, McGill University researchers Michael Meaney and Moshe Szyf discovered that the style of parenting a lab rat receives in infancy determines how that rat responds to stress. Rat pups that received less care in their upbringing were more sensitive to stress throughout their lives, an effect the researchers linked to changes in brain tissue, particularly in the hippocampus, a brain region that regulates responses to stress. This led to a growing interest in epigenetics: how environmental factors can alter behavior by biochemically changing gene function or gene expression without altering the genetic code.

-stereotype threat

Psychologists have found stereotype threat to be a potential contributing factor in phenomena such as gender gaps in business acumen and age differences in memory tasks. that the forms of stereotype threat that women may experience in quantitative fields and that African Americans may experience in academic fields in general may interfere with the performance and comfort of these groups in these areas. Since then, stereotype threat has become one of the most studied topics in social psychology.

-human-computer interaction

The profile of cyberpsychology will increase with advances such as distributed computing, new input techniques such as voice commands and gestures, and the increased portability of technological devices and applications. In addition, the field is integrating with more disciplines internationally. The International Association for Cyberpsychology, Training and Rehabilitation brings together top researchers with clinicians and policymakers to help apply technology to healthcare. At the Royal College of Surgeons of Ireland's Leadership Institute, psychologist and researcher Mary Aiken has developed the Cyberpsychology Research Center, which will incorporate the work of institutions ranging from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to INTERPOL.

-Modern clinical psychological science

Historically, psychotherapists have approached their work as more of an art than a science. But over the past 25 years, researchers have amassed a wealth of data on the treatments that are most effective at addressing psychological problems ranging from depression to post-traumatic stress disorder.

Camila Bohórques - Pedro Pardo - Deisy Guerrero - Katerin Ortega

Universidad de Cundinamarca