Basic topics in psychology include:

Assessment | Biopsychology | Comparative | Cognitive | Developmental | Language
Personality | Philosophy | Methods | Social | Statistics | Clinical | Educational | Industrial

Psychology: Debates · Journals · Psychologists

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Contents 1 Nature 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 See also

Nature of psychology Edit

Main article: Psychology

Branches of psychology Edit

Subdisciplines of psychology Edit

Research psychology Edit Abnormal psychology Biological psychology Cognitive psychology Comparative psychology Developmental psychology Experimental psychology Personality psychology Social psychology

Applied psychology Edit Clinical psychology Counseling psychology Educational psychology Forensic psychology Health psychology Human factors psychology Industrial and organizational psychology School psychology

Psychological schools Edit

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

Functionalism Gestalt psychology Humanistic psychology Individual psychology Phenomenological psychology Psychoanalytic school, or psychoanalysis Self (psychology) Social psychology (also known as "Sociocultural psychology") Structuralism Transactional analysis Transpersonal psychology

History of psychology Edit

Main article: History of psychology

Basic psychology concepts Edit

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 – Jung, Carl – IQ – IQ test –

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 – Superego –

Thalamus – Thinking – Thought – Torture –

Visual cortex

Persons influential in the field of psychology Edit

Main article: List of psychologists

Leaders in psychology Edit

Psychology lists Edit

Main article: List of psychology topics

See also Edit

Core concepts in introductory psychology