List of basic psychology topics

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Psychology is an academic and applied field involving the scientific study of mental processes and behavior. Psychology also refers to the application of such knowledge to various spheres of human activity, including problems of individuals' daily lives and the treatment of mental illness. Neuropsychology studies the actual neural processes and how they relate to the mental effects they subjectively produce. Biological psychology is the scientific study of the biological bases of behavior and mental states.

The following outline is provided as an overview of and introduction to psychology:

Contents 1 Essence of psychology 2 Branches of psychology 2.1 Subdisciplines of psychology 2.1.1 Research psychology 2.1.2 Applied psychology 2.2 Psychological schools 3 History of psychology 4 Basic psychology concepts 5 Persons influential in the field of psychology 6 Leaders in psychology 7 Psychology lists 8 External links

[edit] Essence of psychology

Main article: Psychology

[edit] Branches of psychology

[edit] Subdisciplines of psychology

[edit] Research psychology Abnormal psychology Biological psychology Cognitive psychology Comparative psychology Developmental psychology Experimental psychology Personality psychology Social psychology

[edit] Applied psychology Clinical psychology Counseling psychology Educational psychology Psychology and law Health psychology Human factors psychology Industrial and organizational psychology School psychology

[edit] Psychological schools

The most prominent schools are in bold.

Analytical psychology Behaviorism (see also Radical behaviourism) Behavioural genetics Biological psychology Cognitivism Depth psychology Descriptive psychology Ego psychology Environmental psychology Evolutionary psychology Existential psychology

Functional psychology Gestalt psychology Humanistic psychology Individual psychology Phenomenological psychology Psychoanalytic school, or psychoanalysis Self (psychology) Social psychology Structuralism Transactional analysis Transpersonal psychology

[edit] History of psychology

Main article: History of psychology

[edit] Basic psychology concepts

Adler, Alfred – Aggression – Alpha male – Amphetamine – Apathy – Attention – Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder – Attitude – Axon –

Bipolar disorder – Brain – Brain stem – Brain teaser – Brain trauma – Brain tumor

Central nervous system – Cerebral cortex – Child prodigy – Clinical depression – Cognitive psychology – Competition – Conscience – Cooperation – Corpus collosum – Criminal insanity –

Delusion – Depression – Deferred gratification – Distraction – Dream – Dreaming – Dream interpretation – Dyslexia –

Ego – Emotion –

Freud, Sigmund –

Game theory –

Hallucination – Hyperactivity – Hypnotherapy – Hypnotism – Hypothalamus –

Id – Illusion – Inkblot test – Insanity – Intelligence – Intuition – IQ – IQ test –

Jung, Carl –

Lie – Lie detector – Lobotomy –

Mania – Memory – Mental disability – Mental hospital – Mentality – Mental retardation –

Neuro-linguistic programming – Neuron – Nootropic –

Pain – Perception – Personality – PET – Phobia – Pineal gland – Pituitary gland – Positive Mental Attitude – Piaget, Jean – Procrastination – Prodigy – Psychedelic drug – Psychiatric ward – Psychiatry – Psychoanalysis – Psychometrics – Psychosis – Psychotherapy – Psychotropic –

REM – Rational Emotive Therapy –

Schizophrenia – Self-development– Self-help – Self-improvement – Self-management – Sense – Sensory perception – Shock treatment – Stimulus – Shulgin, Alexander – Sleep – Sleep disorder – Sleepwalking – Subvocalization – Suffering – Superego – Sexual dysfunctions –

Thalamus – Thinking – Thought – Torture –

Visual cortex

[edit] Persons influential in the field of psychology

Main article: List of psychologists

[edit] Leaders in psychology

[edit] Psychology lists

Main article: List of psychology topics

Main article: List of counseling topics'

[edit] External links

• Psychology Library- Search Psychology articles by author's name, category and key word (Also Articles from the American Psychological Association)

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