Encyclopedia - Psychology: Encyclopedia - Psychology
Psychology (ancient Greek: psyche = "soul" or "mind", logos/-ology = "study of") is an academic and applied field involving the study of ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Psychology: Encyclopedia Ii - Psychology - Scope Of Psychology
Psychology is an extremely broad field, encompassing many different approaches to the study of mental processes and behavior. Below are t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Psychology: Encyclopedia Ii - Psychology - Scope Of Psychology
Psychology is an extremely broad field, encompassing many different approaches to the study of mental processes and behavior. Below are t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Authenticity Psychology: Encyclopedia - Authenticity Psychology
"Authenticity" in psychology refers to psychological concept in which the individual derives gratification and positive emotions from exe...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Critical Psychology: Encyclopedia - Critical Psychology
Critical psychology is both a critique of "mainstream" psychology and an attempt to apply psychology in more progressive ways (based, for...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Anti-psychologism: Encyclopedia - Anti-psychologism
Anti-psychologism is a thesis about the nature of logical truth, that it does not depend upon the contents of human ideas but exists inde...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Applied Psychology: Encyclopedia - Applied Psychology
The basic premise of applied psychology is the use of psychological principles and theories to overcome practical problems in other field...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Complex Psychology: Encyclopedia - Complex Psychology
In psychology a complex is generally an important group of unconscious associations, or a strong unconscious impulse lying behind an indi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Comparative Psychology: Encyclopedia - Comparative Psychology
Comparative psychology, taken in its most usual, broad sense, refers to the study of the behaviour and mental life of animals other than ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Biological Psychology: Encyclopedia - Biological Psychology
Biological psychology may be looked at as a hybrid of neuroscience and psychology. Practitioners of biological psychology may use their k...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Developmental Psychology: Encyclopedia - Developmental Psychology
Developmental psychology is the scientific study of progressive psychological changes that occur in human beings as they age. Originally ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Energy Psychology: Encyclopedia - Energy Psychology
Energy psychology is not a specific field of study but rather refers generally to a collection of techniques and therapies that are often...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Analytical Psychology: Encyclopedia - Analytical Psychology
Analytical psychology (also known as Depth Psychology, Archetypal Psychology, Dream Analysis, or Jungian Analysis) is based upon the move...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Bicameralism Psychology: Encyclopedia - Bicameralism Psychology
In psychology, bicameralism is a controversial theory asserting that the human brain once assumed a state known as a bicameral mind in wh...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Abnormal Psychology: Encyclopedia - Abnormal Psychology
Abnormal psychology in clinical psychology studies the nature of psychopathology, its causes, and its treatments. Of course the definitio...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Psyche Psychology: Encyclopedia - Psyche Psychology
Psyche (Greek ψυχή breathe, blow) used in classic Greek as a synonym for the word soul. Since our culture and mind grew more sophisti...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Jungian Psychology: Encyclopedia - Jungian Psychology
Jungian psychology is a theory developed by Carl Gustav Jung, and is central to the Neopsychoanalytic school of psychology. Jungian psych...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cognitive Psychology: Encyclopedia - Cognitive Psychology
Cognitive psychology is the psychological science that studies cognition, the mental processes that underlie behavior, including thinking...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Imprinting Psychology: Encyclopedia - Imprinting Psychology
Imprinting is the term used in psychology and ethology to describe any kind of phase-sensitive learning (learning occurring at a particul...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Association Psychology: Encyclopedia - Association Psychology
In psychology and marketing, two concepts or stimuli are associated when the experience of one leads to the effects of another, due to re...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Clinical Psychology: Encyclopedia - Clinical Psychology
Clinical psychology is the application of psychology within a clinical (health) setting. However, it is often taken to refer primarily to...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Personality Psychology: Encyclopedia - Personality Psychology
Personality psychology is a branch of psychology which studies personality and individual difference processes - that which makes us into...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cognitivism Psychology: Encyclopedia - Cognitivism Psychology
In psychology, cognitivism is a theoretical approach to understanding the mind, which argues that mental function can be understood by qu...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Community Psychology: Encyclopedia - Community Psychology
The definition below should be read as particular to a US-American reading of community psychology. More specifically, it is probably a U...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Attitude Psychology: Encyclopedia - Attitude Psychology
Attitude is a key concept in social psychology. In academic psychology parlance, attitudes are positive or negative views of an "attitude...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Conformity Psychology: Encyclopedia - Conformity Psychology
In psychology, conformity is the degree to which members of a group will change their behavior, views and attitudes to fit the views of t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Color Psychology: Encyclopedia - Color Psychology
Color psychology is a field of study devoted to analyzing the effect of color on human behavior and feeling, distinct from phototherapy (...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - American Psychological Society: Encyclopedia - American Psychological Society
The American Psychological Society (APS) is a society for scientific psychology, whose mission is to "promote, protect, and advance the i...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Crowd Psychology: Encyclopedia - Crowd Psychology
Ordinary people typically can gain direct power by acting collectively. Historically, because large groups of people have been able to ef...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Process Oriented Psychology: Encyclopedia - Process Oriented Psychology
Process Oriented Psychology refers to a body of theory and practice that encompasses a broad range of psychotherapeutic, personal growth,...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Psychology: Encyclopedia Ii - Psychology - Criticisms Of Psychology
Although modern mainstream psychology largely endeavors to be a scientific endeavor, the field has a history of controversy. Some critici...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Psychology: Encyclopedia Ii - Psychology - Criticisms Of Psychology
Although modern mainstream psychology largely attempts to be a scientific endeavor, the field has a history of controversy. Some criticis...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Psychology: Pagan Paganism Dictionary Ii On Psychology
Psychology: Divination by means of the features of the head (interior).   (See also: Psychology , Pagan, Paganism, Pagan Dicti...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Psychology: Encyclopedia Ii - Psychology - Principles Of Psychology
Psychology - Mind and brain. Psychology does not necessarily refer to the brain or nervous system and can be framed purely in terms of ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Psychologization: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Psychologization
Psychologization.   See HYPNOTISM   (See also: Psychologization , Mysticism, Mysticism Dictionary, Occultism, Occultism D...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Psychology: Theosophy Occultism Mysticism Dictionary On Psychology
A Theosophical definition of Psychology :   Psychology This word is ordinarily used to signify in our days, and in the seats of...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Psychology: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Psychology
Psychology In philosophy, the systematic study of mind, as opposed to physics or the study of matter. Applied in theosophy to the attr...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Psychology: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Psychology
Psychology. The Science of Soul, in days of old: a Science which served as the unavoidable basis for physiology. Whereas in our modern...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Philippine Psychology: Encyclopedia Ii - Philippine Psychology - Cultural Psychology
Philippine Cultural Psychology concerns itself with the various cultural peculiarities, superstitious beliefs and aspects of the Filipino...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Psychology: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Psychology - Scientific Psychology
In 1879 Wilhelm Wundt founded a laboratory at the University of Leipzig in Germany, specifically to focus on general and basic questions ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Psychology: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Psychology - Prescientific Psychology
The Ebers papyrus (ca 1550 BC) contains a short description of clinical depression. Though full of incantations and foul applications mea...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Analytical Psychology: Encyclopedia Ii - Analytical Psychology - Psychological Types
Analytical Psychology distinguishes several psychological types or temperaments. Extrovert Introvert The attitude type could be thought...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Psychology Of Torture: Encyclopedia Ii - Psychology Of Torture - Psychology Of Torturers
It was long thought that "good" people would not torture and only "bad" ones would, under normal circumstances. Research over the past 50...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Psychology Of Torture: Encyclopedia Ii - Psychology Of Torture - Psychology Of Torture
As normal developing human beings, people internalize certain concepts needed to support their ability to face life. For example, they co...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Psychology: Encyclopedia Ii - Psychology - History
Main article: History of psychology Rudolf Goclenius, a German scholastic philosopher, is credited with inventing the term 'psychology' (...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Psychology: Encyclopedia Ii - Psychology - History
Main article: History of psychology The late 19th century marks the start of psychology as a scientific enterprise. The year 1879 is comm...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Educational Psychology: Encyclopedia Ii - Educational Psychology - Careers In Educational Psychology
A person may be considered an educational psychologist if he or she has completed a graduate degree in educational psychology or a closel...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Psychology: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Psychology - Overview
The end of the 19th century marks the start of psychology as a scientific enterprise. The year 1879 is commonly seen as the start of psyc...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Social Psychology: Encyclopedia Ii - Social Psychology - Social Psychological Theories
Some of the theories and topics within social psychology address issues which apply to individuals within an interaction, and some discus...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Publications In Psychology: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Publications In Psychology - Introducing Psychology
List of publications in psychology - Introducing Psychology. Nigel Benson Introducing Psychology, 1998. Totem/Icon Books. Description...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Social Psychology: Encyclopedia Ii - Social Psychology - Social Psychological Theories
Some of the theories and topics within social psychology address issues which apply to individuals within an interaction, and some discus...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Psychology Of Torture: Encyclopedia Ii - Psychology Of Torture - Psychological Results Of Torture
Subjects typically oscillate between emotional numbing and highly sensitive arousal: insomnia, irritability, restlessness, and attention ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Educational Psychology: Encyclopedia Ii - Educational Psychology - Careers In Educational Psychology
A person may be considered an educational psychologist if he or she has completed a graduate degree in educational psychology or a closel...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Psychological Warfare: Encyclopedia Ii - Psychological Warfare - History Of Psychological Warfare
Although not always accredited as the first practitioner of psychological warfare, Alexander the Great of Macedon undoubtedly showed to b...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Educational Psychology: Encyclopedia Ii - Educational Psychology - History Of Educational Psychology
Educational psychology cannot claim priority in the systematic analysis of educational processes. Philosophers of education such as Democ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Publications In Psychology: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Publications In Psychology - Gestalt Psychology
List of publications in psychology - Experimental Studies of the Perception of Movement. Max Wertheimer Experimental Studies of the Pe...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Psychology: Encyclopedia Ii - Psychology - Research Methods
Psychology is conducted both scientifically and non-scientifically, but is to a large extent wholly rigorous. Mainstream psychology is ba...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Publications In Psychology: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Publications In Psychology - Educational Psychology
Cronbach, Lee J. (1957). The two disciplines of scientific psychology. American Psychologist, 12, 671-684. Gordon, Kate. (1905). Wherein ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Publications In Psychology: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Publications In Psychology - Cognitive Psychology
Description: Importance: ... See also:List of publications in psychology, List of publications in psychology - Introducing Psychology,...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Publications In Psychology: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Publications In Psychology - Clinical Psychology
Description: This publication was the foundation of the classification systems used in today's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Menta...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Publications In Psychology: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Publications In Psychology - Social Psychology
Classic Readings on Prejudice and Intergroup Relations * Allport, G.W. (1954). The nature of prejudice. New York: Doubleday. Descri...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Medical Psychology: Encyclopedia Ii - Medical Psychology - Education
An important contribution of medical psychology is in the education of patients (psychoeducation) in disease processes. Frequently, such ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Homosexuality And Psychology: Encyclopedia Ii - Homosexuality And Psychology - Issues
The declassification of homosexuality has largely ended the discussion of homosexuality as a mental disorder, at least among mental healt...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Developmental Psychology: Encyclopedia Ii - Developmental Psychology - Theory
Many theoretical perspectives attempt to explain development, among the most prominent are: Jean Piaget's Stage Theory, Lev Vygotsky's So...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Homosexuality And Psychology: Encyclopedia Ii - Homosexuality And Psychology - History
The history of psychology and homosexuality begins with the advent of psychology itself. The diagnosis of homosexuality as a psychologica...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Spiritual Psychology: Alternative Health Dictionary On Spiritual Psychology
spiritual psychology: Healing modality that stems from anthroposophy, archetypal psychology, and Jungian psychology.   (See al...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Christian Psychology: Alternative Health Dictionary On Christian Psychology
Christian psychology: Any ostensible form of psychology that involves biblical counseling.   (See also: Christian psychology ,...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Psychology Of Torture: Encyclopedia Ii - Psychology Of Torture - Background
Torture is common in situations where disparities in interpersonal power and control occur. It is a well known theme in religious, politi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Environmental Psychology: Encyclopedia Ii - Environmental Psychology - Scope
"Environmental psychology" is arguably the best-known and more comprehensive description of the field. The field is known by the followin...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Eastern Psychology: Alternative Health Dictionary On Eastern Psychology
Eastern psychology: Group of psychological therapies of Eastern origin, notably those psychological methods that are parts of Ayurveda...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Transpersonal Psychology: Encyclopedia Ii - Transpersonal Psychology - Criticisms Of Transpersonal Psychology
Criticisms of transpersonal psychology has come from several commentators. One of the earliest criticisms of the field was issued by the ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Educational Psychology: Encyclopedia Ii - Educational Psychology - Motivation
Motivation is an internal state that arouses, guides and sustains behavior. Educational psychology research on motivation is concerned wi...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Transpersonal Psychology: Alternative Health Dictionary On Transpersonal Psychology
transpersonal psychology (transpersonal counseling, transpersonal counseling psychology): Combination of Jungian psychology, psychosyn...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Humanistic Psychology: Alternative Health Dictionary On Humanistic Psychology
Humanistic Psychology (holistic psychology): An approach to psychology in which emphasis is on one's ability to direct one's life and ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Archetypal Psychology: Alternative Health Dictionary On Archetypal Psychology
archetypal psychology: Form of psychotherapy akin to theotherapy and advanced by Jungian analyst Jean Shinoda Bolen. Archetypal psycho...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Environmental Psychology: Encyclopedia Ii - Environmental Psychology - Challenges
Since the late 1940s, the field has seen significant research findings and a fair surge of interest in the late 1970s and early 1980s, bu...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Medical Psychology: Encyclopedia Ii - Medical Psychology - Background
Some doctors and philosophers today believe that this Cartesian line of thought is outdated. Some anecdotal evidence has been raised conc...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Sacred Psychology: Alternative Health Dictionary On Sacred Psychology
sacred psychology: Experiential psychology developed by psychologist Jean Houston, former president of the Association for Humanistic ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Hand Psychology: Alternative Health Dictionary On Hand Psychology
hand psychology: A form of scientific palmistry.   Its principle is that one's hands reveal vast psychological information. Hand...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Educational Psychology: Encyclopedia Ii - Educational Psychology - Educational Psychology For Instructional Design And Technology
In task analysis, often regarded as a behavioral approach to designing learning materials and activities, complex performance goals are a...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Comparative Psychology: Encyclopedia Ii - Comparative Psychology - Comparative Psychology And The Comparative Method
Strictly speaking, comparative psychology ought to involve the use of a comparative method, in which similar studies are carried out on a...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Publications In Psychology: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Publications In Psychology - Forensic Psychology
List of publications in psychology - Forensic Psychology. Alan M. Goldstein Forensic Psychology, 2003 ISBN 0-47-161920-5 Description:...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Color Psychology: Alternative Health Dictionary On Color Psychology
color psychology: Variation of color therapy.   (See also: Color psychology , Body Mind and Soul, Alternative Health, Alternat...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Environmental Psychology: Encyclopedia Ii - Environmental Psychology - Proxemics
In the mid 1950s anthropologist E. T. Hall wrote "The Hidden Dimension" which developed and popularized the concepts of personal space an...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Analytical Psychology: Encyclopedia Ii - Analytical Psychology - Assumptions
The basic assumption is that the personal unconscious is a potent part — probably the more active part — of the normal human psyche. ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cognitivism Psychology: Encyclopedia Ii - Cognitivism Psychology - Criticisms Of Psychological Cognitivism
Cognitivism has been criticised in a number of ways. Phenomenologists and hermeneutic philosophers have criticised the positivist approac...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Jungian Psychology: Alternative Health Dictionary On Jungian Psychology
Jungian psychology (Analytical Psychology): System of psychoanalysis founded by psychiatrist and reincarnationist Carl Gustav Jung (18...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Transpersonal Psychology: Parapsychology Dictionary On Transpersonal Psychology
Transpersonal Psychology: The study of experiences, beliefs and practices that suggest that the sense of self can extend beyond our p...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Buddhist Psychology: Alternative Health Dictionary On Buddhist Psychology
Buddhist psychology: comprehensive science of mind and being. It includes Abhidharma analysis. (The Abhidharma is the third part of th...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Process Psychology: Alternative Health Dictionary On Process Psychology
process psychology (Dreambody approach, Dreambody Work, process oriented psychology, Process-Oriented Psychotherapy, Process Work): Sp...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Humanistic Psychology: New Age Spirituality Dictionary On Humanistic Psychology
Humanistic Psychology The school of psychology originated by Abraham Maslow, Carl Rogers and others, that emphasizes the uniqueness of...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Educational Psychology: Encyclopedia Ii - Educational Psychology - Educational Psychology For Instructional Design And Technology
In task analysis, often regarded as a behavioral approach to designing learning materials and activities, complex performance goals are a...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Psychological Egoism: Encyclopedia Ii - Psychological Egoism - Criticism
Critics of psychological egoism often reject it on the grounds that it is non-falsifiable; in other words, it is designed in such a way a...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Psychology Of Evil: Alternative Health Dictionary On Psychology Of Evil
Psychology of evil: Nascent Christian psychological philosophy endorsed by M. (Morgan) Scott Peck, M.D. Peck is the author of The Road...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Biodynamic Psychology: Alternative Health Dictionary On Biodynamic Psychology
biodynamic psychology (Biodynamic therapy): Therapeutic approach developed by Gerda Boyesen, a clinical psychologist and physiotherapi...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Psychological Astrology: Alternative Health Dictionary On Psychological Astrology
psychological astrology (astro-psychology): Combination of horoscopic astrology (see astrologic medicine) and Jungian psychology. psyc...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Energy Psychology: Alternative Health Dictionary On Energy Psychology
energy psychology: Subject of Energy Tapping, by psychologists Fred P. Gallo, Ph.D., and Harry Vincenzi, Ed.D. Its basis is the acupun...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Humanistic Psychology: New Age Spirituality Dictionary On Humanistic Psychology
Humanistic Psychology The school of psychology originated by Abraham Maslow, Carl Rogers and others, that emphasizes the uniqueness of...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Somatic Psychology: Massage Bodywork Dictionary On Somatic Psychology
SOMATIC PSYCHOLOGY This is a body-based orientation that facilitates the client’s therapeutic process.   A client session ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Publications In Psychology: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Publications In Psychology - Behaviorism
List of publications in psychology - Psychology as the behaviorist views it. John B. Watson Psychological Review, 20, pp. 158-177. Onl...   » Read the article