Psychology

Psychology (Classical Greek: psyche = "soul" or "mind", logos = "study of") is an academic and applied field involving the study of behavior, mind and thought and the neurological bases of 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. It is largely concerned with humans, although the behavior and mental processes of animals can also be part of psychology research, either as a subject in its own right (e.g. animal cognition and ethology), or somewhat more controversially, as a way of gaining an insight into human psychology by means of comparison (including comparative psychology). Psychology is commonly defined as the science of behaviour and mental processes. Although its name derives from Greek "psyche", psychology does not scientifically study the soul, since no evidence exists to show such a thing exists.

Divisions and approaches in psychology

Different disciplines in psychology typically signify both a set of practices and an area of interest. The divisions are largely arbitrary and overlapping (although they may have been formalised into areas of interest by psychological societies or regulatory bodies) and most psychologists will use methods from each area as appropriate, even if they mostly focus on one area of interest in their work.

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• Abnormal psychology
• Activity theory
• Analytical psychology
• Applied psychology
• Asian Psychology
• Behavior analysis
• Behavioural medicine
• Behavioural psychology
• Biobehavioural health
• Biological psychology
• Biopsychology
• Cognitive neuropsychology
• Cognitive psychology
• Cognitive neuroscience
• Community psychology
• Comparative psychology
• Clinical psychology
• Counselling psychology
• Critical psychology
• Developmental psychology
• Discursive psychology
• Distributed cognition
• Dynamic cognition
• Ecological psychology
• Educational psychology
• Embodied cognition
• Emotional clearing
• Engineering psychology
• Evolutionary psychology
• Experimental psychology
• Forensic psychology
• Health psychology
• Humanistic psychology
• Individual differences psychology
• Industrial and organizational psychology
• Medical psychology
• Music psychology
• Neuropsychology
• Performance psychology
• Personality psychology
• Philippine Psychology
• Physiological psychology
• Popular psychology, self-help, and alternative therapy
• Political psychology
• Positive psychology
• Pre- and perinatal psychology
• Problem solving
• Psychoanalysis
• Psychohistory
• Psychology of religion
• Psychometrics
• Psychonomics
• Psychophysics
• Psychophysiology
• Psychotherapy a branch of psychiatry as well
• School psychologist
• Sensation and Perception
• Situated cognition
• Social psychology
• Sport Psychology
• Systemic psychology
• Theoretical psychology
• Traffic psychology
• Transpersonal psychology