Psychology & Actors

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Actors Psychologist

• Actor’s• Producers• Directors

• Clinical Psychologist• Counseling psychologist• School psychologists • Industrial-organizational

psychologists • Developmental

psychologists• Social psychologists • Experimental or research

psychologist

Social Psychology Actors

• Study how people interact with each other and how they are affected by their environment.

• Interpret a writer’s script to entertain, inform, or instruct an audience.

• Perform in stage, radio, television, video, or motion picture productions.

Responsibilities and tasks of Social Psychologist

• Psychologists formulate hypotheses and collect data to test their validity.

• Research methods may vary depending on the topic under study.

• Psychologists sometimes gather information through controlled laboratory experiments, as well as through administering personality, performance, aptitude, and intelligence tests.

• Other methods include observation, interviews, questionnaires, clinical studies, and surveys.

Responsibility and Tasks of Actors

• Casting calls

• Obligations to school and work

• Meet with agents

• Acting classes

• Memorization of monologues

Education of Psychologist

• You must attend graduate school 5 to 7 years, to obtain a doctoral degree.

• When you attain your Ph.D. You are required to do a dissertation based on your own research

• You may also be required to perform at least a 1-year internship.

• You must have a doctoral degree to be licensed or certified by (APA) for the state in which you practice.

Education of Actors

• College courses in theater, arts, drama, and dramatic literature.

• Dramatic Arts Schools offering bachelor's or higher degrees in dramatic and theater arts.

• A degree is not required however help to develop skills and experience.

Psychologist Personalities

• Holland's Type

Social and Investigative

• MBTI Type

(ENFP) Extravert, Intuitive, Feeler, Perceiver

Actors Personality

• Holland's Type

Artistic & Enterprising

• MTBI Type

(ENFP)  Extravert, Intuitive, Feeler, Perceiver

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Offices of HealthPractioners

Elementary andSecondary Schools

Outpatient Care

Individual and FamilyServices

Salary- Psychologist

Grows faster than average.

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Equity onBroadway

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Directors and Producers median salary was

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Psychology Organizations

• (NASP)-National Association of School Psychologist

Awards the National Certified School Psychologist

• (ABPP)- American Board of Professional Psychology

Awards specialty certification in primarily in clinical, counseling, school, forensic, and industrial- organizational psychology.

Unions for Actors

• (Equity)

The Actors Equity Association

• (SAG)

The Screen Actors Guild

• (AFTRA)

The American Federation of Television and Radio Artists.

Opportunities For Students

• Drama Club• Taking part in plays

and theater productions on campus

• Volunteering in theatre work

• Internships doing research with Professionals.

• Volunteering at a facility specializing in areas Psychology.

Sources

• www.research.apa.org• www.psychology.org• www.BLS.org

• www.Lasierra.edu• www.kryingsky.com/Biography/bot.html• www.happyface.com/jobdesc/lflqr.html