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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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

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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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

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 - 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 - 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: 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 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 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 - Psychological Results Of Torture
Subjects typically oscillate between emotional numbing and highly sensitive arousal: insomnia, irritability, restlessness, and attention ...   » 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - Introducing Psychology
List of publications in psychology - Introducing Psychology. Nigel Benson Introducing Psychology, 1998. Totem/Icon Books. Description...   » 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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

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

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 - List Of Publications In Psychology: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Publications In Psychology - Personality
List of publications in psychology - A Theory of Human Motivation. Abraham Maslow Psychological Review, 50, 370-396. (1943) Online ver...   » 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

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

Encyclopedia - Timeline Of Psychology: Encyclopedia Ii - Timeline Of Psychology - Nineteenth Century
Timeline of psychology - 1840s. 1844 G.Stanley Hall born. Timeline of psychology - 1850s. Timeline of psychology - 1860s. 1860 J...   » 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

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 - Timeline Of Psychology: Encyclopedia Ii - Timeline Of Psychology - Twentieth Century
Timeline of psychology - 1900s. 1900 - Sigmund Freud published 'Interpretation of Dreams' marking the beginning of Psychoanalytic Thou...   » 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 - 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 - Developmental Psychology: Encyclopedia Ii - Developmental Psychology - Aspects Of Development
Developmental psychology is concerned with many different components of human psychology and how they change over time. These different a...   » 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 - Educational Psychology: Encyclopedia Ii - Educational Psychology - Learning And Cognition
Several perspectives have been established within which the theories used in educational psychology are formed and contested. These inclu...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Social Psychology: Encyclopedia Ii - Social Psychology - Angles Of Research
Social psychology attempts to understand the relationship between minds, groups, and behaviors in three general ways. First, it tries to ...   » 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

Encyclopedia - Social Psychology: Encyclopedia Ii - Social Psychology - Relation To Other Fields
Social psychology has close ties with the other social sciences, especially sociology and psychology. It also has very strong ties to the...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Educational Psychology: Encyclopedia Ii - Educational Psychology - Individual Differences And Disabilities
Each person has an individual profile of characteristics, abilities and challenges that result from learning and development. These manif...   » 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

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

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 - Developmental Psychology: Encyclopedia Ii - Developmental Psychology - Research Methods
Developmental psychology employs many of the research methods used in other areas of psychology. However, infants and children cannot alw...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Psychological Warfare: Encyclopedia Ii - Psychological Warfare - Information Age
As these techniques impinged on the civilian realm, the threat grew, and the paranoia of this idea that the government could wage psychol...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Psychology Of Torture: Encyclopedia Ii - Psychology Of Torture - The Torture Process
Although torture induces both physiological and psychological effects, the psychological impact is often greater and tends to remain with...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Qualitative Psychological Research: Encyclopedia Ii - Qualitative Psychological Research - Goals Attributed To Qualitative Psychological Research
To many researchers the goal of qualitative psychological research is to develop hypotheses or theory. The crucial question here is the d...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Qualitative Psychological Research: Encyclopedia Ii - Qualitative Psychological Research - Arguments Against Quantitative Psychological Research
Nevertheless, many other psychological researchers reject statistically-based research in favour of qualitative research. They argue that...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Comparative Psychology: Encyclopedia Ii - Comparative Psychology - Disorders Of Animal Behaviour
Today an animal's psychological constitution is recognised by veterinary surgeons as an important part of its living conditions in domest...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Psychological Warfare: Encyclopedia Ii - Psychological Warfare - Propaganda Warfare
Most of the events throughout history involving psychological warfare utilized tactics that instilled fear or a sense of awe towards the ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Bicameralism Psychology: Encyclopedia Ii - Bicameralism Psychology - The Bicameral State
A person in the bicameral state would behave as a typical schizophrenic. The bicameral state produces the feeling of the mind sub-ordinat...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Bicameralism Psychology: Encyclopedia Ii - Bicameralism Psychology - Julian Jaynes
Julian Jaynes proposed in 1976 that human brains existed in a bicameral state until as recently as 3000 years ago in his work The Origin ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Bicameralism Psychology: Encyclopedia Ii - Bicameralism Psychology - Similar Ideas
Friedrich Nietzsche's explanations of human ethics and moral consciousness in Beyond Good and Evil and On the Genealogy of Morals posit a...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Comparative Psychology: Encyclopedia Ii - Comparative Psychology - Noted Comparative Psychologists
Noted comparative psychologists, in this broad sense, include: George Romanes C. Lloyd Morgan Edward L. Thorndike Ivan Pavlov John B. Wa...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Bicameralism Psychology: Encyclopedia Ii - Bicameralism Psychology - Julian Jaynes
In his 1976 work The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind Julian Jaynes proposed that human brains existed in a...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Educational Psychology: Encyclopedia Ii - Educational Psychology - Research Methods
The research methods used in educational psychology tend to be drawn from psychology and other social sciences. There is also a history o...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Psychological Operations: Encyclopedia Ii - Psychological Operations - United States
In the United States Department of Defense, Psychological Operations units exist in the Army, and Air Force. The United States Navy also...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Publications In Psychology: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Publications In Psychology - Psychoanalysis And Psychotherapy
List of publications in psychology - The Interpretation of Dreams. Sigmund Freud The Interpretation of Dreams, 1900. Online version D...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Humanistic Psychology: Encyclopedia Ii - Humanistic Psychology - Criticism And Debate
Criticism of Humanistic psychology has come from several commentators. Among these we find sociologist Roy Wallis who has questioned the ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Educational Psychology: Encyclopedia Ii - Educational Psychology - Individual Differences And Disabilities
Each person has an individual profile of characteristics, abilities and challenges that result from learning and development. These manif...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Environmental Psychology: Encyclopedia Ii - Environmental Psychology - Behavior Settings
The first significant findings in environmental psychology can be traced back to researcher Roger Barker, who founded his research statio...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Environmental Psychology: Encyclopedia Ii - Environmental Psychology - University Of Strathclyde
Another strain of environmental psychology developed out of ergonomics in the 1960s. The beginning of this movement can be traced back to...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Environmental Psychology: Encyclopedia Ii - Environmental Psychology - Impact On The Built Environment
Ultimately, environmental psychology is oriented towards influencing the work of design professionals (architects, interior designers, ur...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Doctor Of Psychology: Encyclopedia Ii - Doctor Of Psychology - Us Usage
The degrees was recognized by the Vail Conference on models of training in clinical psychology in 1973. At this conference, it was recogn...   » 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