List of basic psychology topics

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


 * 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

 * 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 – Superego –

Thalamus – Thinking – Thought – Torture –

Visual cortex

Psychology lists

 * Main article: List of psychology topics