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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.

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

Contents 1 Essence 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 External links

Essence of psychology

Main article: Psychology

Branches of psychology

Subdisciplines of psychology

Research psychology Abnormal psychology Behavioural genetics Biological psychology Cognitive psychology Comparative psychology Developmental psychology Evolutionary psychology Experimental psychology Personality psychology Social psychology

Applied psychology Clinical psychology Counseling psychology Educational psychology Psychology and law 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) Cognitivism Depth psychology Descriptive psychology Ecological systems theory Ego psychology Existential psychology Functional psychology Gestalt psychology

Humanistic psychology Individual psychology Phenomenological psychology Psychoanalytic school, or psychoanalysis Self (psychology) Structuralism Transactional analysis Transpersonal psychology

History of psychology

Main article: History of psychology

Basic psychology concepts

Adler, Alfred – Aggression – Apathy – Attention – Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder – Attitude – Axon –

Bipolar disorder – Brain – Brain stem – Brain trauma – Brain tumor

Central nervous system – Cerebral cortex – Clinical depression – Cognitive psychology – Competition – Conscience – Cooperation – Corpus callosum – Criminal insanity –

Delusion – Depression – Deferred gratification – Development Dream – Dream interpretation –

Ego – Emotion –

Freud, Sigmund –

Game theory –

Hallucination – Hyperactivity – Hypnotherapy – Hypnotism – Hypothalamus –

Id – Illusion – Inkblot test – Insanity – Intelligence – Intuition – IQ – IQ test –

Jung, Carl –

Lie –

Mania – Memory – Mental disability – Mental hospital – Mental retardation –

Neuro-linguistic programming – Neuron – Nootropic –

Pain – Perception – Personality – Phobia – Pineal gland – Pituitary gland – Piaget, Jean – Procrastination – Psychedelic drug – Psychiatric ward – Psychiatry – Psychoanalysis – Psychometrics – Psychosis – Psychotherapy – Psychotropic –

REM – Rational Emotive Therapy –

Schizophrenia – Self-help – Self-improvement – Self-management – Sense – Sensory perception – Shock treatment – Stimulus – Sleep – Subvocalization – Superego – Sexual dysfunctions –

Thalamus – Thinking –

Visual cortex

Persons influential in the field of psychology

Main article: List of psychologists

Leaders in psychology

Psychology lists

Main article: List of psychology topics

Main article: List of counseling topics

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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