List of basic psychology topics


 * For a more comprehensive list, see the List of psychology topics.

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. Basic topics in psychology include:

Nature of psychology

 * Main article: Psychology

Research psychology

 * Abnormal psychology
 * Biological psychology
 * Cognitive psychology
 * Comparative psychology
 * Developmental psychology
 * Experimental psychology
 * Personality psychology
 * Social psychology

Applied psychology

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

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

History of psychology

 * Main article: History of psychology

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 – 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 – Suffering – Superego –

Thalamus – Thinking – Thought – Torture –

Visual cortex

Leaders in psychology
Test

Psychology lists

 * Main article: List of psychology topics
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