Outline_of_psychology
Outline of psychology
Overview of and topical guide to psychology
The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to psychology:
Psychology refers to the study of subconscious and conscious activities, such as emotions and thoughts. It is a field of study that bridges the scientific and social sciences and has a huge reach. Its goal is to comprehend individuals and groups by both establishing general principles and researching specific cases. Psychology is the study of people and the reasons for their behavior. It has grown in popularity in the last few decades and is now an undergraduate course at many universities.
There are a variety of psychology branches that people specialize in, as outlined below. [1][2]
Basic psychological science
- Abnormal psychology
- Applied psychology
- Asian psychology
- Behavioral genetics
- Biological psychology
- Black psychology
- Clinical neuropsychology
- Cognitive psychology
- Comparative psychology
- Conservation psychology
- Criminal psychology
- Critical psychology
- Cultural psychology
- Developmental psychology
- Differential psychology
- Evolutionary psychology
- Experimental psychology
- Forensic developmental psychology
- Group psychology
- Health psychology
- Indigenous psychology
- Mathematical psychology
- Medical psychology
- Motivation
- Music psychology
- Neuropsychology
- Pediatric psychology
- Personality psychology
- Positive psychology
- Psychopharmacology
- Quantitative psychology
- Rehabilitation psychology
- Social psychology
- Transpersonal psychology
- Theoretical psychology
Other areas by topic
- Behavioral economics
- Child psychopathology
- Feminine psychology
- Indian psychology
- Intelligence
- Moral psychology
- Psychometrics
- Psycholinguistics
- Psychology of art
- Psychology of religion
- Psychology of science
- Psychology of self
- Psychopathology
- Psychopharmacology and substance abuse
- Psychophysics
- Sex and psychology
Applied psychology
- Anomalistic psychology
- Applied behavior analysis
- Clinical psychology
- Community psychology
- Consumer psychology
- Counseling psychology
- Ecological psychology
- Educational psychology
- Environmental psychology
- Forensic psychology
- Health psychology
- Human factors psychology
- Industrial and organizational psychology
- Legal psychology
- Media psychology
- Military psychology
- Occupational psychology
- Occupational health psychology
- Political psychology
- Psychoneuroimmunology
- Psychopharmacology
- School psychology
- Sport psychology
- Traffic psychology
Psychological schools
Psychological schools – some examples of psychological schools follow (the most prominent schools are in bold):
- Analytical psychology
- Behaviorism (see also Radical behaviourism)
- Cognitivism
- Depth psychology
- Descriptive psychology
- Ecological systems theory
- Ego psychology
- Enactivism (psychology)
- Existential psychology
- Functional psychology
- Gestalt psychology
- Humanistic psychology
- Individual differences
- Individual psychology
- Phenomenological psychology
- Psychoanalysis
- Structuralism
- Transactional analysis
- Transpersonal psychology
Psychological conditions
Medicine
- List of clinical psychologists
- List of cognitive psychologists
- List of comparative psychologists
- List of developmental psychologists
- List of educational psychologists
- List of evolutionary psychologists
- List of social psychologists
- Related
- Fernald LD (2008). Psychology: Six perspectives (pp. 12–15). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
- Hockenbury & Hockenbury. Psychology. Worth Publishers, 2010.
Definitions from Wiktionary
Media from Commons
News from Wikinews
Quotations from Wikiquote
Texts from Wikisource
Textbooks from Wikibooks
Resources from Wikiversity
- Psychology Library- Search Psychology articles by author's name, category and key word (Also Articles from the American Psychological Association)