List of psychology topics (old)
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Topics in Psychology
- abnormal psychology
- applied psychology
- attitude and social influence
- the brain and nervous system
- behaviorism
- cognition
- conditioning
- consciousness
- developmental psychology
- emotion
- language and language acquisition
- learning
- memory
- mental health disorders
- motivation
- personality
- research methods
- the senses
- perception
- psychological testing
- psychopharmacology
- psychotherapy
- reasoning and decision making
- sexuality and gender role
- shyness
Major Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Schools of Thought
- psychoanalysis
- behaviorism
- radical behaviorism
- gestalt psychology
- introspective
- humanism
- functionalism
Divisions and Approaches in Psychology
(these might be overlapping, of course)
- analytical psychology
- behavioral psychology
- biological psychology
- cognitive psychology
- cognitive neuroscience
- clinical psychology and counselling psychology
- critical psychology
- developmental psychology
- educational psychology
- evolutionary psychology
- experimental psychology
- health psychology
- individual differences psychology
- industrial and organizational psychology
- medicinal psychology
- neuropsychology
- personality psychology
- physiological psychology
- popular psychology, self-help, and alternative therapy
- positive psychology
- psychoanalysis
- psychohistory
- psychometrics
- psychonomics
- psychophysics
- psychophysiology
- psychotherapy a branch of psychiatry as well.
- social psychology
- Social Interaction Dynamics
Some related disciplines
- psychometrics
- psychophysics
- cognitive science
- computer science and captology
- ethology
- linguistics and especially psycholinguistics
- literature, literary theory, and critical theory
- neuroscience
- parapsychology
- philosophy of mind
- philosophy of psychology
- game theory
- hypnotherapy
- systems theory
- simplicity theory
- complexity theory
- artificial consciousness
- sociology
- economics and marketing
- history
- Neuro-linguistic programming
- Socionics
See also
For a fuller list of topics, please see the list of psychological topics.
External links
- AmoebaWeb Psychology Resources
- Encyclopedia of Psychology
- American Psychological Association
- American Psychological Society
- American Psychiatric Association
- British Psychological Society
- A Century of Psychology (APA)
- Pictures of famous psychologists
- The Psychology Wiki
References
- Adapted from the Wikipedia article, "Psychology" http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychology July 17, 2003
