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

Psychology Psychology is the scientific study of mind and behavior. Its subject matter includes the behavior of humans and nonhumans, both consciousness, conscious and Unconscious mind, unconscious phenomena, and mental processes such as thoughts, feel ...

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. Fernald LD (2008)
''Psychology: Six perspectives''
(pp. 12–15). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.Hockenbury & Hockenbury. Psychology. Worth Publishers, 2010.

Branches of psychology

Basic psychological science

* Abnormal psychology *

Applied psychology Applied psychology is the use of psychological methods and findings of scientific psychology to solve practical problems of human and animal behavior and experience. Educational and organizational psychology, business management, law, health, pro ...

* Asian psychology * Behavioral genetics * Biological psychology * Black psychology * Clinical neuropsychology *

Cognitive psychology Cognitive psychology is the scientific study of human mental processes such as attention, language use, memory, perception, problem solving, creativity, and reasoning. Cognitive psychology originated in the 1960s in a break from behaviorism, whi ...

* Comparative psychology * Conservation psychology * Criminal psychology * Critical psychology * Cultural psychology *

Developmental psychology Developmental psychology is the scientific study of how and why humans grow, change, and adapt across the course of their lives. Originally concerned with infants and children, the field has expanded to include adolescence, adult development ...

* Differential psychology *

Evolutionary psychology Evolutionary psychology is a theoretical approach in psychology that examines cognition and behavior from a modern evolutionary perspective. It seeks to identify human psychological adaptations with regard to the ancestral problems they evolved ...

Experimental psychology Experimental psychology is the work done by those who apply Experiment, experimental methods to psychological study and the underlying processes. Experimental psychologists employ Research participant, human participants and Animal testing, anim ...

* Forensic developmental psychology * Group psychology * Health psychology * Indigenous psychology * Mathematical psychology * Medical psychology *

Motivation Motivation is an mental state, internal state that propels individuals to engage in goal-directed behavior. It is often understood as a force that explains why people or animals initiate, continue, or terminate a certain behavior at a particul ...

Music psychology The psychology of music, or music psychology, is a branch of psychology, cognitive science, neuroscience, and/or musicology. It aims to explain and understand musical behaviour and experience, including the processes through which music is pe ...

* Neuropsychology * Pediatric psychology *

Personality psychology Personality psychology is a branch of psychology that examines personality and its variation among individuals. It aims to show how people are individually different due to psychological forces. Its areas of focus include: * Describing what per ...

* Positive psychology *

Psychopharmacology Psychopharmacology (from Greek ; ; and ) is the scientific study of the effects drugs have on mood, sensation, thinking, behavior, judgment and evaluation, and memory. It is distinguished from neuropsychopharmacology, which emphasizes ...

* Quantitative psychology * Rehabilitation psychology *

Social psychology Social psychology is the methodical study of how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors are influenced by the actual, imagined, or implied presence of others. Although studying many of the same substantive topics as its counterpart in the field ...

* Transpersonal psychology * Theoretical psychology

Applied psychology

* Anomalistic psychology *

Applied behavior analysis Applied behavior analysis (ABA), also referred to as behavioral engineering, is a behavior modification system based on the principles of respondent and operant conditioning. ABA is the applied form of behavior analysis; the other two are: ...

* Clinical psychology * Community psychology * Consumer psychology * Counseling psychology * Ecological psychology *

Educational psychology Educational psychology is the branch of psychology concerned with the scientific study of human learning. The study of learning processes, from both cognitive psychology, cognitive and behavioral psychology, behavioral perspectives, allows researc ...

* 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 *

* 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 PsychoanalysisFrom Greek language, Greek: and is a set of theories and techniques of research to discover unconscious mind, unconscious processes and their influence on conscious mind, conscious thought, emotion and behaviour. Based on The Inte ...

* Structuralism * Transactional analysis * Transpersonal psychology

History of psychology

History of psychology * Timeline of psychology * Timeline of psychotherapy

Psychology theories

* List of social psychology theories

Research methods

List of psychological research methods * List of neurological research methods

Psychological phenomena

* Cognitive bias (list) ** List of memory related cognitive biases *

Emotion Emotions are physical and mental states brought on by neurophysiology, neurophysiological changes, variously associated with thoughts, feelings, behavior, behavioral responses, and a degree of pleasure or suffering, displeasure. There is ...

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list A list is a Set (mathematics), set of discrete items of information collected and set forth in some format for utility, entertainment, or other purposes. A list may be memorialized in any number of ways, including existing only in the mind of t ...

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Perception Perception () is the organization, identification, and interpretation of sensory information in order to represent and understand the presented information or environment. All perception involves signals that go through the nervous syste ...

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index Index (: indexes or indices) may refer to: Arts, entertainment, and media Fictional entities * Index (''A Certain Magical Index''), a character in the light novel series ''A Certain Magical Index'' * The Index, an item on the Halo Array in the ...

) * Psychological effects *

Thought In their most common sense, the terms thought and thinking refer to cognitive processes that can happen independently of sensory stimulation. Their most paradigmatic forms are judging, reasoning, concept formation, problem solving, and de ...

(outline) ** List of thought processes ** List of organizational thought processes ** List of decision-making processes ** List of creative thought processes **

List of mnemonics A list is a set of discrete items of information collected and set forth in some format for utility, entertainment, or other purposes. A list may be memorialized in any number of ways, including existing only in the mind of the list-maker, bu ...

** Emotional intelligence

Psychological conditions

* DSM-IV codes * DSM-IV codes (alphabetical) * Mental disorder (list) * List of mood disorders * List of neurological disorders * Outline of autism

Psychological treatments

* List of cognitive–behavioral therapies * List of therapies * List of psychotherapies

Medicine

Drug A drug is any chemical substance other than a nutrient or an essential dietary ingredient, which, when administered to a living organism, produces a biological effect. Consumption of drugs can be via insufflation (medicine), inhalation, drug i ...

* Lists of drugs * List of nootropics (smart drugs)

Psychology education

* List of credentials in psychology * List of schools of psychoanalysis

Psychology organizations

* List of psychology organizations * Evolutionary psychology research groups and centers * List of schools of psychoanalysis

Scholars of psychology (and related)

; List of psychologists * 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 * List of cognitive scientists * List of fictional psychiatrists * List of neurologists and neurosurgeons * List of neuroscientists * List of psychiatrists * List of psychoanalytical theorists

References

External links

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