Outline of psychology
The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to psychology:
Psychology is the science[1] of behavior and mental processes.[2] Its immediate goal is to understand individuals and groups by both establishing general principles and researching specific cases.[3][4]
Branches of psychology
Subdisciplines of psychology
Basic psychological science
- Abnormal psychology
- Applied psychology
- Asian psychology
- Behavioral genetics
- Biological psychology
- Black psychology
- Clinical neuropsychology
- Critical psychology
- Cognitive psychology
- Comparative psychology
- Conservation psychology
- Criminal 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
Other areas by topic
- Behavioral economics
- Child psychopathology
- Feminine psychology
- Indian psychology
- Intelligence
- Moral psychology
- Parapsychology
- Pedology
- Psychobiology
- Psychometrics
- Psycholinguistics
- Psychology of aesthetics, creativity, and the arts
- 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
Psychology theories
Psychological phenomena
- Cognitive biases
- Emotion (list)
- Memory biases
- Perception (index)
- Psychological effects
- Thought
- List of thought processes
- List of organizational thought processes
- List of decision-making processes
- List of creative thought processes
- List of mnemonics
- Emotional intelligence
Psychological conditions
- DSM-IV Codes
- DSM-IV Codes (alphabetical)
- List of mental disorders
- List of mood disorders
- List of neurological disorders
- Outline of autism
Psychological treatments
Psychology education
Psychology organizations
Psychology publications
Scholars of psychology (and related)
- List of comparative psychologists
- List of clinical psychologists
- List of developmental psychologists
- List of educational psychologists
- List of evolutionary psychologists
- List of social psychologists
- Related
See also
- Index of psychology articles
- Index of cognitive science articles
- Index of neurobiology articles
- Index of psychometric articles
- List of neuroscience topics
- List of counseling topics
- List of neuroimaging software
- List of regions in the human brain
- Web-based experiments
- Neuro-linguistic programming (index)
References
- Gray, P. O. (2010). "Foundations for the study of psychology". Psychology (6th ed.). New York, New York: Worth Publishers.
- Psychology. (n.d.). In Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary. Retrieved from merriam-webster.com
- Fernald LD (2008). Psychology: Six perspectives (pp. 12–15). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
- Hockenbury & Hockenbury. Psychology. Worth Publishers, 2010.
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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