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1. SARHAD UNIVERSITY
Role of computer in Psychology
Prepared By; Ali
M. Sc Psychology

2. Outline
• In Research (SPSS)
• Uses in Counselling
• For storing Data
• Online Psychological testing
• Uses of Microsoft Office

3. Uses of Computer in Research Process
 The field of psychology mostly deals with research.
 Psychologist have ability to answer the most important
questions about humankind, all through research.
 The computer has made the whole research process
easier.
 It has allowed researchers all over the world to come
together and refine their work, thus improving the entire
psychological field.
 The development of research today is actually tied in
with computers. They are not just used to transfer the
information but to actually conduct the research.

4. Continue...
• Researchers have limited tools around them. The
Internet provides them with all new choices.
• Before now, if a researcher in France wanted to conduct
an experiment he would have had to deal with the
population samples around him and modify his research
to fit that region.
• If he wanted to do research on the lives of those who live
in Harlem, for example, he would have had to make
many flights, or many expensive phone calls, in order
obtain his information.
• In the present day, things have changed a bit. The
researcher can e-mail the information to a colleague in
the U.S. and get his information that way.

5. Continue...
• The aspect of the Internet alone has given us more
research questions than was ever possible before.
• For example, a researcher could take a web page, and
others like it, and conduct research, such as why do all
sports pages look alike?
• It may seem like an incredible burden, it may seem
crazy, but to a psychologist it is pure heaven.

6. Role Of Computer in Clinical settings
• Online counselling
• Skype Sessions
a) Psychologist Sessions
b) Psychiatrist Sessions
• History of Patient ( Can store for a long time)
• Online Psychological testing

7. Online Counselling
• Psychologist take sessions online
• Diagnoses
• Treatment
• Individual Counselling
• Family Counselling
• Skype Mettings

8. Skype sessions
• Computer had made life easy
• We can take sessions through out the
world
• Any where, any time
• e.g Consultant Psychiatrist

9. Online psychological testing
• Psychologist can asses personality
through on line testing
• Like personality tests
• e.g TAT thematic aperception And Simet
binet IQ test