This page aims to list articles related to psychology. This is so that those interested in the subject can monitor changes to the pages by clicking on Related changes in the sidebar. 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. ...

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Aaron T. Beck -- abnormal psychology -- Abraham Maslow -- activity theory -- Albert Bandura -- Albert Ellis -- Alfred Adler -- Alfred Binet -- Alfred Kinsey -- Alice Miller -- alogia -- alternative therapy -- anal retentiveness -- analytical psychology -- anhedonia -- Anna Freud -- anomie -- applied psychology -- archetype -- Aristotle -- Arthur Janov -- Asperger's syndrome -- attitude (psychology) -- attribution theory -- attributional bias -- Aushra Augustinavichute -- autism -- Automatic thought -- avolition Aaron T. Beck, M.D. (born 1921), The Father of Cognitive Behavior Therapy, is a professor at the Psychopathology Research Unit of the University of Pennsylvania. ... Abnormal psychology studies the nature of psychopathology, its causes, and its treatments. ... Abraham Maslow (April 1, 1908 – June 8, 1970) was a psychologist. ... Activity theory is a Soviet psychological theory invented by Alexei Nikolaevich Leontyev, which became one of the major psychological theories in that country, being used widely in areas such as the education of disabled children and the design of equipment control panels. ... Albert Bandura (born December 4, 1925) is a Canadian psychologist most famous for his work on social learning theory (or Social Cognitivism) and is particularly noted for the Bobo doll experiment. ... Albert Ellis in 2003 Albert Ellis (born September 27, 1913) is an American psychologist whose Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT), is the foundation of all cognitive and cognitive behavior therapies. ... Image:Adlersm. ... Alfred Binet Alfred Binet (July 11, 1857 – October 18, 1911), French psychologist and inventor of the first usable intelligence test, the basis of todays IQ test. ... Dr. Alfred Kinsey interviewing a respondent to his survey. ... Alice Miller (b. ... In psychology, alogia, or poverty of speech, is a general lack of additional, unprompted content seen in normal speech. ... The term anal retentive (or anally retentive) is one of a variety of examples of Freudian terminology which have found their way into common usage with a slight shift in the original meaning. ... Analytical psychology (also known as Depth Psychology, Archetypal Psychology, Dream Analysis, or Jungian Analysis) is based upon the movement started by Carl Jung and his followers as distinct from Freudian psychoanalysis. ... In psychology, anhedonia is a patients inability to experience pleasure from normally pleasurable life events such as eating, exercise, and social/sexual interactions. ... Anna Freud (December 3, 1895, Vienna, Austria - October 9, 1982, London, England), the daughter of Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) and his wife Martha Bernays (1861-1951), was a Austrian-born British psychoanalyst, and pioneer of child psychoanalysis. ... Anomie, in contemporary English means the absence of any kind of rule, law, principle or order. ... The basic premise of applied psychology is the use of psychological principles and theories to overcome practical problems in other fields, such as business management, product design, ergonomics, nutrition or clinical medicine. ... This article is in need of attention from an expert on the subject. ... Aristotle, marble copy of bronze by Lysippos. ... Dr. Arthur Janov is the inventor of Primal therapy and directs a Primal Center in Venice, California, USA. He is a licensed psychologist in that state. ... Asperger described his patients as little professors. Aspergers syndrome (AS, or the more common shorthand Aspergers), is characterized as one of the five pervasive developmental disorders, and is commonly referred to as a form of high functioning autism. ... This article is about the psychological term attitude. ... Attribution theory is a field of social psychology, which was born out of the theoritical models of Fritz Heider, Harold Kelley, Edward E. Jones, and Lee Ross. ... Attributional biases are cognitive biases which affect attribution -- the way we determine who or what was responsible for an event or action. ... Aushra Augustinavichiute (born April 4, Lithuania not far from the city of Kaunas. ... Autism is classified as a neurodevelopmental disorder that manifests itself in markedly abnormal social interaction, communication ability, patterns of interests, and patterns of behavior. ... Thought or thinking is a mental process which allows beings to model the world, and so to deal with it effectively according to their goals, plans, ends and desires. ... In psychology, avolition is a general lack of desire, motivation, and persistence. ...

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B. F. Skinner -- behavioral imprinting -- behavioral psychology -- behaviorism -- belief -- bipolar disorder -- brain -- brainwashing -- Bystander effect Burrhus Frederic Skinner Burrhus Frederic Skinner (March 20, 1904 – August 18, 1990) was an American psychologist and author. ... This article is about the psychological term. ... Behaviorism (or behaviourism) is an approach to psychology based on the proposition that behavior is interesting and worthy of scientific research. ... John B. Watson was one of the important influences on the development of behaviorism. ... Look up belief in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... The artist Edvard Munch, who is now regarded as probably having suffered from bipolar disorder, depicts intense anguish in The Scream Note on usage: Manic-depression was the original term used for the disorder. ... In the anatomy of animals, the brain, or encephalon, is the supervisory center of the nervous system. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Mind control. ... The bystander effect (also known as bystander apathy) is a psychological phenomenon where persons are less likely to intervene in an emergency situation when others are present than when they are alone. ...

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captology -- Carl Jung -- Carl Rogers -- Catherine Snow -- child directed speech -- clinical psychology -- cognition -- cognitive behavior therapy -- cognitive development (theory of) -- cognitive dissonance -- cognitive distortion -- cognitive neuropsychology -- cognitive psychology -- cognitive science -- cognitivism -- collective unconscious -- color psychology -- comorbidity -- comparative psychology -- computer science -- conditioned reflex -- conditioning -- connectionism -- consciousness -- counselling psychology -- critical psychology -- critical theory Captology is the study of computers as persuasive technologies. ... Carl Jung Carl Gustav Jung (July 26, 1875, Kesswil, Switzerland–June 6, 1961, Küsnacht) (IPA:) was a Swiss psychiatrist and founder of Analytical Psychology. ... Carl Rogers Carl Ransom Rogers (January 8, 1902–February 4, 1987) was an influential American psychologist. ... Catherine Mandeville Snow, (c. ... Baby talk, motherese, or child-directed speech (CDS) is a nonstandard form of speech used by adults, particularly mothers, in talking to children. ... Clinical psychology is the application of psychology within a clinical (health) setting. ... Look up Cognition on Wiktionary, the free dictionary The term cognition is used in several different loosely related ways. ... Cognitive therapy or cognitive behavior therapy is a kind of psychotherapy used to treat depression, anxiety disorders, phobias, and other forms of psychological disorder. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Cognitive development. ... Cognitive dissonance is a condition first proposed by the psychologist Leon Festinger in 1956, relating to his hypothesis of cognitive consistency. ... Cognitive therapy and its variants traditionally identify ten cognitive distortions that maintain negative thinking and help to maintain negative emotions. ... == ISABEL IS COOL AND SHE LOVES COGNITIVE NEUROPSYCHOLOGY!!!!!!!!! == Cognitive neuropsychology is a branch of neuropsychology that aims to understand how the structure and function of the brain relates to specific psychological processes. ... Cognitive psychology is the psychological science which studies cognition, the mental processes that are hypothesised to underlie behavior. ... Rendering of human brain based on MRI data Cognitive Science is the scientific study of the mind and brain and how they give rise to behavior. ... In psychology cognitivism is a theoretical approach to understanding the mind, which argues that mental function can be understood by quantitative, positivist and scientific methods, and that such functions can be described as information processing models. ... Collective unconscious is a term of analytical psychology, and was originally coined by Carl Jung. ... Color psychology is a field of study devoted to analyzing the effect of color on human behavior and feeling. ... In medicine and in psychiatry, comorbidity refers to: The presence of one or more disorders (or diseases) in addition to a primary disease or disorder. ... Comparative psychology, taken in its most usual, broad, sense, refers in to the study of the behaviour and mental life of animals other than human beings. ... Wikibooks Wikiversity has more about this subject: School of Computer Science Open Directory Project: Computer Science Downloadable Science and Computer Science books Collection of Computer Science Bibliographies Belief that title science in computer science is inappropriate Categories: Computer science ... Conditioning is a psychological term for what Ivan Pavlov described as the learning of conditional behavior. ... Connectionism is an approach in the fields of cognitive science, neuroscience, psychology and philosophy of mind. ... Consciousness is a quality of the mind generally regarded to comprise qualities such as subjectivity, self-awareness, sentience, sapience, and the ability to perceive the relationship between oneself and ones environment. ... Unlike clinical psychology, counseling psychology is generally a joint-venture of both psychology departments and departments of education. ... Critical psychology is both a critique of mainstream psychology and an attempt to apply psychology in more progressive ways (based, for example, on Marxist or feminist analyses) and contexts than have thus far been the case. ... In the humanities and social sciences, critical theory has two quite different meanings with different origins and histories, one originating in social theory and the other in literary criticism. ...

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Daniel Dennett -- decision making -- delusion -- developmental psychology -- dream -- Donald Olding Hebb Daniel Dennett Daniel Clement Dennett (born March 28, 1942) is a prominent American philosopher. ... Decision making is the cognitive process of selecting a course of action from among multiple alternatives. ... A delusion is commonly defined as a false belief, and is used in everyday language to describe a belief that is either false, fanciful or derived from deception. ... Developmental psychology is the scientific study of age related behavioral changes which occur as a child grows up. ... Dreaming is the subjective experience of remembered and imaginary images, sounds/voices, words, thoughts or sensations during sleep, usually involuntarily. ... Donald Olding Hebb (July 22, 1904-August 20, 1985) was an influential psychologist, particularly in the area of neuropsychology, where he sought to understand how the function of neurons contributed to psychological processes such as learning. ...

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economic psychology -- educational psychology -- Ego -- Electra complex -- eliminative materialism -- Elizabeth Kübler-Ross -- Emil Kraepelin -- emotion -- Eric Berne -- Eric Lenneberg -- Erich Fromm -- Erik H. Erikson -- Ernest Jones -- ethology -- evolutionary psychology -- experimental psychology -- extroversion ... Educational psychology is the study of how children and adults learn, the effectiveness of various educational strategies and tactics, and how schools function as organizations. ... eGO is a company that builds electric motor scooters which are becoming popular for urban transportation and vacation use. ... The Electra complex is an ambiguous psychiatric concept which attempts to explain the maturation of the human female. ... In the philosophy of mind, eliminative materialism is the school of thought that argues for an absolute version of materialism and physicalism with respect to mental entities and mental vocabulary. ... Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, M.D. (July 8, 1926 - August 24, 2004) was a psychiatrist and the author of the groundbreaking book On Death and Dying, where she first discussed what is now known as the Kübler-Ross model. ... Emil Kraepelin (February 15, 1856- October 7, 1926) was a German Psychiatrist who attempted to create a synthesis of the hundreds of mental disorders classified by the 19th century, grouping diseases together based on classification of common patterns of symptoms, rather than by simple similarity of major symptoms in the... In psychology and common use, emotion is an aspect of a human beings mental state, normally based in or tied to the persons internal (physical) and external (social) sensory feeling. ... Eric Berne (May 10, 1910-July 15, 1970) was an American psychiatrist best known as the creator of Transactional analysis. ... Eric H[einz] Lenneberg (1921 - 1975) was a linguist who pioneered ideas on language acquisition and cognitive psychology more generally about innateness. ... Erich Fromm Erich Fromm (March 23, 1900 – March 18, 1980) was an internationally renowned German-American psychologist and humanistic philosopher. ... Erik Homburger Erikson (June 15, 1902 - May 12, 1994) was a developmental psychologist and psychoanalyst known for his theory on social development of human beings, and for coining the phrase identity crisis. Bibliography Major works: Childhood and Society (1950) Young Man Luther. ... Ernest Jones (1879-1958) was arguably the best-known follower of Sigmund Freud. ... Ethology is the scientific study of animal behaviour considered as a branch of zoology. ... Evolutionary psychology (or EP) proposes that human and primate cognition and behavior can be better understood in light of human and primate evolutionary history. ... Experimental psychology describes an approach to psychology that treats it as one of the natural sciences, and therefore assumes that it is susceptible to the experimental method. ... The terms Introvert and Extrovert (originally spelled Extravert by Carl Jung, who invented the terms) are referred to as attitudes and show how a person orients and receives their energy. ...

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face perception -- facial expression -- Feral children -- fetishism -- fis phenomenon -- Fritz Perls -- functionalism -- fundamental attribution error Face perception is the process by which the brain and mind understand and interpret the face, particularly the human face. ... Photographs from the 1862 book Mécanisme de la Physionomie Humaine by Guillaume Duchenne. ... A feral child is a child who has lived isolated from human contact starting from a very young age. ... A fetish (from French fétiche; from Portuguese feitiço; from Latin facticius, to make) is a natural object believed to have supernatural powers, or in particular an object created by people that has power over people. ... The fis phenomenon is a phenomenon of child language acquisition that demonstrates that perception of phonemes occurs earlier than the ability of the child to produce those phonemes. ... Frederick S. (Fritz) Perls (1893 - 1970) was a noted German-born psychologist and psychotherapist. ... Please note the difference between structural functionalism, which was developed by Meyer Fortes and Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard, and structuralism, a theoretical concept other (generally later) anthropologists like Claude Lévi-Strauss and Edmund Leach. ... In attribution theory, the fundamental attribution error (sometimes referred to as the actor-observer bias, correspondence bias or overattribution effect) is the tendency for people to over-emphasize dispositional, or personality-based, explanations for behaviors observed in others while under-emphasizing the role and power of situational influences on the...

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game theory -- gender role -- Genie (feral child) -- George Kelly -- Gestalt effect -- Gestalt psychology -- Gestalt Theoretical Psychotherapy -- Gestalt therapy-- group-serving bias -- group attribution error -- group polarization -- groupthink Game theory is a branch of applied mathematics that uses models to study interactions with formalised incentive structures (games). Unlike decision theory, which also studies formalised incentive structures, game theory encompasses decisions that are made in an environment where various players interact strategically. ... It has been suggested that Masculinity be merged into this article or section. ... Genie is a name used for a feral child discovered by California authorities on November 4, 1970 in the Los Angeles suburb of Arcadia. ... George Kelly could be George Kelly the baseball player George Machine Gun Kelly the gangster George Kelly the musician George Kelly the psychologist George Kelly the playwright This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... Gestalt effects in psychology of cognition refer to the form-forming capability of our senses. ... Gestalt psychology (also Gestalt theory of the Berlin School) is a theory of mind and brain that proposes that the operational principle of the brain is holistic, parallel, and analog, with self-organizing tendencies. ... Gestalt Theoretical Psychotherapy is a method of psychotherapy based strictly on Gestalt psychology. ... Gestalt therapy is a form of psychotherapy, based on the experiential ideal of here and now, and relationships with others and the world. ... Group-serving bias is identical to self-serving bias except that it takes place between groups rather than individuals, under which group members make dispositional attributions for their groups successes and situational attributions for group failures, and vice versa for outsider groups. ... The group attribution error is a group-serving, attributional bias identical to the fundamental attribution error except that it occurs between members of different groups rather than different individuals. ... Group polarization effects have been demonstrated to exaggerate the inclinations of group members after a discussion. ... Groupthink is a term coined by psychologist Irving Janis in 1972 to describe a process by which a group can make bad or irrational decisions. ...

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hallucination - Hans Eysenck -- Harry Harlow -- health psychology -- Heinz Werner -- Hermann Rorschach -- hostile media effect -- history -- humanism -- hypnosis -- hypnotherapy A hallucination is a sensory perception experienced in the absence of an external stimulus, as distinct from an illusion, which is a misperception of an external stimulus. ... Eysenck Hans Jurgen Eysenck (March 4, 1916 - September 4, 1997) was a British psychologist. ... Harry Harlow (1906-1981) was an American psychologist best known for his studies on affection and development using rhesus monkeys and surrogate wire or terrycloth mothers. ... Health psychology is the use of psychological principles to promote health and to prevent illness (Taylor, 1990). ... Categories: 1884 births | 1922 deaths | Psychiatrists | People stubs ... The hostile media effect, sometimes called the hostile media phenomenon, refers to the finding that ideological partisans consistently tend to think that media coverage is biased against their particular side of the issue. ... ... Humanism is an active ethical and philosophical approach to life focusing on human solutions to human issues through rational arguments without recourse to a god, gods, sacred texts or religious creeds. ... Hypnosis - Wikipedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ... Hypnotherapy is the application of hypnosis as a form of treatment, usually for relieving pain or conditions related to ones state of mind. ...

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Id -- ideas of reference -- identity crisis -- individual differences psychology -- industrial and organizational psychology -- intelligence (trait) -- intentionality -- introspective -- introversion -- IQ -- Irvin Yalom -- Irving Janis -- Ivan Pavlov In his theory of psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud sought to explain how the unconscious mind operates by proposing that it has a particular structure. ... Ideas of reference or delusions of reference involve a person having a belief or perception that irrelevant, unrelated or innocuous things in the world are referring to them directly or have special personal significance. ... Individual differences psychology studies the ways in which individual people differ in their behavior. ... Industrial and organizational psychology (or I/O psychology) is the study of the behavior of people in the workplace. ... Intelligence is usually said to involve mental capabilities such as the ability to reason, plan, solve problems, think abstractly, comprehend ideas and language, and learn. ... Intentionality, originally a concept from scholastic philosophy, was reintroduced in contemporary philosophy by the philosopher and psychologist Franz Brentano in his work Psychologie vom Empirischen Standpunkte. ... Introspective is the fourth album, the third of entirely new music, by the UK electronic music group Pet Shop Boys. ... The terms Introvert and Extrovert (spelled Extravert by Carl Jung), were originally employed by Sigmund Freud and given significant amplification later by Jung. ... IQ redirects here; for other uses of that term, see IQ (disambiguation). ... Irving L. Janis (1918-1990) was a research psychologist at Yale University and a professor emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley most famous for his theory of groupthink which described the systematic errors made by groups when taking collective decisions. ... Ivan Pavlov Ivan Petrovich Pavlov (September 14, 1849 - February 27, 1936) was a Russian physiologist, psychologist and physician who first described the phenomenon now known as conditioning in experiments with dogs. ...

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Jacques Lacan -- James W. Prescott -- Jean Berko Gleason -- Jean Piaget -- Jean-Martin Charcot -- John B. Watson -- John Bradshaw -- Judy Kegl This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... James W. Prescott is a developmental psychologist, whose research focused on the origins of violence, particularly as it relates to a lack of mother-child bonding. ... Jean Berko Gleason is a Boston University psycholinguist best known for having created the Wug Test. ... Jean Piaget (August 9, 1896 – September 16, 1980) was a Swiss development psychologist, famous for working out a sequence of stages of cognitive development, and notable for his idea that children (and indeed adults) are continually generating theories about the external world (which are kept or dismissed depending on whether... Categories: People stubs | French physicians | 1825 births | 1893 deaths | History of medicine ... John B. Watson John Broadus Watson (January 9, 1878–September 25, 1958) was an American psychologist who established the psychological school of behaviorism. ... John Elliot Bradshaw (born June 29, 1933 in Houston, Texas) is an American educator, theologian, and author best known for his PBS television programs on topics such as addiction, recovery, and spirituality and in particular, the championing of his wounded inner child theory within the context of the dysfunctional family. ...

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Karen Horney -- Kohlberg's stages of moral development Karen Horney (pronounced Horn-eye, 1885-1952) was a German Freudian psychoanalyst with Norwegian-Dutch roots (often classified as neo-Freudian). Born in Blankenese/Hamburg, Germany. ... Kohlbergs stages of moral development were developed by Lawrence Kohlberg to explain the development of moral reasoning. ...

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language -- language acquisition -- Lawrence Kohlberg -- learning -- Lev Vygotsky -- libido -- Liev S. Vygotski -- lifespan psychology -- linguistics -- list of cognitive biases -- List of psychologists -- literary theory -- literature -- Lloyd deMause -- loss aversion This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... Lawrence Kohlberg, sire of Cognitive Moral Development theory. ... A supervised child learning the countries of Asia on the floor of the central hall of the Field Museum, Chicago, Illinois Learning is the process of acquiring knowledge, skills, attitudes, or values, through study, experience, or teaching, that causes a change of behavior that is persistent, measurable, and specified or... are widely considered which a child is seen as a blank slate onto which must be poured knowledge. ... Libido in its common usage means sexual desire, however more technical definitions, such as found in the work of Carl Jung, are more general, referring to libido as the free creative, or psychic, energy an individual has to put toward personal development, or individuation. ... Lev Vygotsky Lev Semyonovich Vygotsky (November 17 (November 5 (O.S.)), 1896—June 11, 1934) was a Russian developmental psychologist, discovered by the Western world in the 1960s. ... Broadly conceived, linguistics is the scientific study of human language, and a linguist is someone who engages in this study. ... Cognitive bias is distortion in the way we perceive reality (see also cognitive distortion). ... This list includes famous psychologists and contributors to psychology; some of them may not have thought of themselves primarily as psychologists but are included here because of their important contributions to the discipline. ... Literary theory is the theory (or the philosophy) of the interpretation of literature and literary criticism. ... Open Directory Project: Literature World Literature Electronic Text Archives Magazines and E-zines Online Writing Writers Resources Libraries, Digital Cataloguing, Metadata Distance Learning What is Literature? Dictionary of the History of Ideas: Classicism in Literature The Universal Library, by Carnegie Mellon University Project Gutenberg Online Library Abacci - Project Gutenberg texts... Lloyd deMause (born September 19, 1931) is an American psychologist who made major contributions to the developing academic field of psychohistory. ... In prospect theory, loss aversion refers to the tendency for people to strongly prefer avoiding losses than acquiring gains. ...

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marketing -- Marvin Minsky -- mathematical psychology -- medical psychology -- Melanie Klein -- memory -- mental health disorders -- mental illness -- microexpression -- Milgram experiment -- mind -- mind control -- MIT -- mood -- Morita Shoma -- motivation Marketing is the process of planning and executing the pricing, promotion, and distribution of goods, ideas, and services to create exchanges that satisfy individual and organizational goals. ... Marvin Minsky Marvin Lee Minsky (born August 9, 1927), sometimes affectionately known as Old Man Minsky, is an American scientist in the field of artificial intelligence (AI), co-founder of MITs AI laboratory, and author of several texts on AI and philosophy. ... For information regarding the parapsychology phenomenon of distance knowledge, see psychometry. ... Medical psychology (also known as Clinical Health Psychology, Psychosomatic Medicine, Health Care Psychology, Behavioral Medicine, or Health Psychology) revolves around the idea that both the body and mind are one, indivisible structure. ... Melanie Klein Melanie Klein, (1882 - 1960), Austrian psychotherapist, built on the work of Sigmund Freud, particularly in the area of child psychology. ... Memory is a function of the brain: the ability to retain information. ... The Scream, the famous painting commonly thought of as depicting the experience of mental illness. ... The Scream, the famous painting commonly thought of as depicting the experience of mental illness. ... A microexpression is a tiny facial expression that lasts less than a quarter of a second. ... The experimenter (E) persuades the participant (S) to give what the participant believes are painful electric shocks to another participant (A), who is actually an actor. ... The mind is the term most commonly used to describe the higher functions of the human brain, particularly those of which humans are subjectively conscious, such as personality, thought, reason, memory, intelligence and emotion. ... Mind control (or thought control) has the premise that an outside source can control an individuals thinking, behavior or consciousness (either directly or more subtly). ... The Massachusetts Institute of Technology, or MIT, is a research and educational institution located in the city of Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. MIT is a world leader in science and technology, as well as in many other fields, including management, economics, linguistics, political science, and philosophy. ... Mood may refer to: chese Grammatical mood Emotional mood This is a disambiguation page, a list of pages that otherwise might share the same title. ... Dr. Morita Masatake (1874 - 1938) (森田 正馬) was a contemporary of Sigmund Freud; however, Morita was the founder of a very different branch of clinical psychology, rooted in the writings of Shinran, the founder of Shinshu Buddhism. ... In psychology, motivation is the driving force (desire) behind all actions of an organism. ...

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narcissism -- nervous system -- neurocognition -- Neuro-linguistic programming -- neuropsychology -- neuroscience -- neurosis -- Nicaragua -- Nicaraguan Sign Language -- Noam Chomsky -- nonverbal communication This article needs to be wikified. ... The nervous system of an animal coordinates the activity of the muscles, monitors the organs, constructs and processes input from the senses, and initiates actions. ... Neurocognitive is a term used to describe cognitive functions closely linked to the function of particular areas, neural pathways, or cortical networks in the brain. ... This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... Neuropsychology is a branch of psychology that aims to understand how the structure and function of the brain relates to specific psychological processes. ... Neuroscience is a field of study which deals with the structure, function, development, genetics, biochemistry, physiology, pharmacology and pathology of the nervous system. ... The term neurosis was coined by the Scottish doctor, William Cullen in 1769 to refer to “disorders of sense and motion” caused by a “general affection of the nervous system. ... Nicaraguan Sign Language (or ISN, Idioma de Signos Nicaragüense) is a signed language spontaneously developed by deaf children in a number of schools along the Pacific Coast of Nicaragua. ... Avram Noam Chomsky (born December 7, 1928) is the Institute Professor Emeritus of linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. ... Often defined as communication without words, nonverbal communication (NVC) refers to all aspects of a message which are not conveyed by the literal meaning of words. ...

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Oedipus complex -- operant conditioning -- orgone -- Otto Rank The Oedipus complex is a concept developed by Sigmund Freud, who inspired Carl Jung (he described the concept and coined the term Complex), to explain the maturation of the infant boy through identification with the father and desire for the mother. ... Operant conditioning, so named by psychologist B. F. Skinner, is the modification of behavior (the actions of animals) brought about by the consequences that follow upon the occurrence of the behavior. ... Dr. Wilhelm Reich Wilhelm Reich (March 24, 1897–November 3, 1957) was an Austrian psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, who was trained in Vienna by Sigmund Freud. ... Otto Rank (April 22, 1884–October 31, 1939) was an Austrian psychologist who extended psychoanalytic theory to the study of legend, myth, art, and other works of creativity. ...

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paraphilia -- parapsychology -- Paul Ekman -- perception -- personality -- personality psychology -- persuasion -- philosophy of mind -- philosophy of psychology -- Phineas Gage -- phonology -- popular psychology -- positive psychology -- poverty of stimulus -- problem solving -- propositional attitude -- prosopagnosia -- prospect theory -- pseudo-science -- psyche -- psychiatry -- psychoanalysis -- psychohistory -- psycholinguistics -- psychological testing -- psychology -- psychometrics -- psychopharmacology -- psychosis -- psychotherapy -- Paraphilia (in Greek para παρά = besides and -philia φιλία = love) is a mental health term recently used to indicate sexual arousal in response to sexual objects or situations which may interfere with the capacity for reciprocal affectionate sexual activity. ... Parapsychology is the study of the evidence involving phenomena where a person seems to affect or to gain information about something through a means not currently explainable within the framework of mainstream, conventional science. ... Paul Ekman (born 1934) was born in Washington, DC and grew up in Newark, New Jersey, Washington, Oregon, and southern California. ... PSYCHOLOGY In psychology and the cognitive sciences, perception is the process of acquiring, interpreting, selecting, and organizing sensory information. ... It has been suggested that Personality psychology be merged into this article or section. ... Personality psychology is a branch of psychology which studies personality and individual difference processes - that which makes us into a person. ... See also: Persuasion the last completed novel by Jane Austen. ... Philosophy of mind is the philosophical study of the nature of the mind, mental events, mental functions, mental properties, and consciousness. ... Philosophy of psychology typically refers to a set of issues at the theoretical foundations of modern psychology. ... Phineas P. Gage (1823 - May 21, 1860) was a railroad construction worker who suffered an unusual kind of traumatic brain injury which inflicted severe damage to parts of his frontal brain during a work accident. ... Phonology (Greek phone = voice/sound and logos = word/speech), is a subfield of linguistics closely associated with phonetics. ... Popular psychology refers to concepts and theories about human mental life and behaviour that come from outside the technical study of psychology, but purport to go beyond everyday knowledge. ... A term coined by Abraham Maslow and adopted by psychologist Martin E.P. Seligman, and a movement in psychology which emphasizes what is right with people rather than what is wrong with them. ... This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... Problem solving forms part of thinking. ... A propositional attitude is a relational mental state connecting a person to a proposition. ... Prosopagnosia (sometimes known as face blindness) is a rare disorder of face perception where the ability to perceive and understand faces is impaired, although other basic perceptual skills (such as recognising and discriminating objects) may be relatively intact. ... The prospect theory was developed by Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky in 1979. ... A pseudoscience is any body of knowledge purported to be scientific or supported by science but which fails to comply with the scientific method. ... Psyche can refer to: In psychology and related fields, the psyche is the entirety of the non-physical aspects of a person. ... Psychiatry is the branch of medicine that diagnoses, treats, and studies mental illness and behavioral conditions. ... Psychoanalysis is a family of psychological theories and methods within the field of psychotherapy that seeks to elucidate connections among unconscious components of patients mental processes, and to do so in a systematic way through a process of tracing out associations. ... For the fictional use of the term psychohistory, see psychohistory (fictional) Psychohistory is the study of the psychological motivations of historical events. ... Psycholinguistics or psychology of language is the study of the psychological and neurobiological factors that enable humans to acquire, use, and understand language. ... Psychological testing is a field characterized by the use of small samples of behavior in order to infer larger generalizations about a given individual. ... 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. ... For information regarding the parapsychology phenomenon of distance knowledge, see psychometry. ... Psychopharmacology is the study of the effects of any psychoactive drug that acts upon the mind by affecting brain chemistry. ... This article is about the mental state. ... Psychotherapy is a set of techniques intended to improve mental health, emotional or behavioral issues in individuals, who are often called clients. These issues often make it hard for people to manage their lives and achieve their goals. ...

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qualia -- This article is about the philosophical concept. ...

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radical behaviorism -- rational-emotive therapy -- reasoning -- reinforcement -- repression -- research methods -- Robert Sternberg -- Robert Yerkes -- Rollo May This article needs a complete rewrite for the reasons listed on the talk page. ... Reasoning is the act of using reason to derive a conclusion from certain premises. ... In operant conditioning, reinforcement is any change in an animals surroundings that (a) occurs after the animal behaves in a given way, (b) seems to make that behavior re-occur more often in the future and (c) that reoccurrence of behavior must be the result of the change. ... A repressed memory, according to some theories of psychology, a memory (often traumatic) of an event or environment which is stored by the unconscious mind but outside the awareness of the conscious mind. ... A very wide range of research methods are used in psychology. ... Robert J. Sternberg ( 8 December 1949-) is the IBM Professor of Psychology and Education at Yale University. ... Robert Mearns Yerkes (May 26, 1876–February 3, 1956) worked in the field of comparative psychology. ... Rollo May (April 21, 1909, Ada, Ohio - October 22, 1994, Tiburon, California) was the best known American existential psychologist, authoring the influential book Love and Will in 1969. ...

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Sapir-Whorf hypothesis -- scale (social sciences) -- schizophrenia -- scientific method -- self --self-help -- sexuality -- shyness -- Sigmund Freud -- simplicity theory -- Simon effect -- simulated consciousness -- social cognition -- social influence -- Social interactionists -- social psychology -- Society of Mind theory -- sociology -- Socionics -- soul -- Spiral dynamics --Stanislav Grof -- Steven Pinker -- subliminal advertising -- Superego -- syntax -- systems theory In linguistics, the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis (SWH) states that there is a systematic relationship between the grammatical categories of the language a person speaks and how that person both understands the world and behaves in it. ... Scaling is the measurement of a variable in such a way that it can be expressed on a continuum. ... The characterization element can require extended and extensive study, even centuries. ... The Self is a key construct in several schools of Psychology. ... Though the term self-help can refer to any case whereby an individual or a group betters themselves economically, intellectually or emotionally, the connotations of the phrase have come to apply particularly to psychological or psychotherapeutic nostrums, often purveyed through the popular genre of the self-help book. ... Look up Sex on Wiktionary, the free dictionary A sex is one of two specimen categories of species that recombine their genetic material in order to reproduce, a process called genetic recombination. ... In humans, shyness is a feeling of insecurity that certain people experience while being among others, talking with others, asking favors of others, etc. ... Sigmund Freud Sigmund Freud (May 7, 1856 – September 23, 1939; ) was an Austrian neurologist and the founder of the psychoanalytic school of psychology, based on his theory that unconscious motives control much behavior, that particular kinds of unconscious thoughts and memories, especially sexual and aggressive ones, are the source of... In psychology, the Simon effect states that reaction times are usually faster when stimulus and response occur at the same location than when they do not, even if the stimulus location is irrelevant ot the task. ... Synthetic consciousness refers to attempts by computer scientists and others to implement machines which, as a minimum, give the impression to observers that they possess aspects of consciousness. ... Social cognition is the name for both a branch of psychology that studies the cognitive processes involved in social interaction, and an umbrella term for the processes themselves. ... Social influence is when the actions or thoughts of individual(s) are changed by other individual(s). ... Social psychology is the study of the nature and causes of human social behavior, with an emphasis on how people think towards each other and how they relate to each other. ... This article or section should be merged with Society of Mind Marvin Minskys theory of the Society of Mind asserts that the mind is the product of the interaction of a vast society of distinct and individually simple processes known as agents. ... Social interactions of people and their consequences are the subject of sociology studies. ... Socionics is a branch of psychology that is based on Carl Jungs work on Psychological Types, Freuds theory of the conscious and subconscious, and Antoni Kępińskis theory of information metabolism. ... The soul according to many religious and philosophical traditions, is the ethereal substance — spirit (Hebrew:rooah or nefesh) — particular to a unique living being. ... Spiral dynamics is a book by Don Beck and Chris Cowan which is based on the theory of psychology professor Clare W. Graves. ... Stanislav Grof (born 1931) is one of the founders of the field of Transpersonal psychology and a pioneer researcher on the use of altered states of consciousness (otherwise known as nonordinary states of consciousness) for healing, growth, and insight. ... Steven Pinker Steven Pinker (born September 18, 1954, in Montreal, Canada) is one of the most prominent cognitive scientists today. ... A subliminal message is a signal or message designed to pass below (sub) the normal limits of perception. ... In his theory of psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud sought to explain how the unconscious mind operates by proposing that it has a particular structure. ... The first meaning of the term syntax, originating from the Greek words συν (sun, meaning ‘together’) and ταξις (taxis, meaning sequence/order), can be described as the study of the rules, or patterned relations that govern the way the words in a sentence come together. ... Systems theory or systemics is an interdisciplinary field which studies relationships of systems as a whole. ...

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Taboo -- the senses -- theory of mind -- transactional analysis -- transpersonal psychology -- Triarchic Theory of Intelligence A taboo is a strong social prohibition (or ban) relating to any area of human activity or social custom declared as sacred and forbidden; breaking of the taboo is usually considered objectionable or abhorrent by society. ... Senses are the physiological methods of perception. ... The phrase theory of mind can be used in several ways. ... Transactional analysis, commonly known as TA to its adherents, is a psychoanalytic theory of psychology developed by psychiatrist Eric Berne during the late 1950s. ... Transpersonal psychology is a school of psychology that studies the spiritual and transpersonal dimensions of humanity, and the possibilty of development beyond traditional ego-boundaries. ... The Triarchic Theory of Intelligence was formulated by Robert J. Sternberg, a prominent figure in the research of human intelligence. ...

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Unconscious The unconscious mind (or subconscious) is the aspect (or puported aspect) of the mind of which we are not directly conscious or aware. ...

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Viktor Frankl -- Virginia Satir Mans search for meaning Viktor Emil Frankl, M.D., Ph. ... Virginia Satir (26 June 1916 - 10 September 1988) was a noted psychotherapist, known especially for her approach to family therapy. ...

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War psychology -- Wilhelm Reich -- Wilhelm Wundt -- William James -- William Masters and Virginia Johnson -- Wolfgang Köhler -- Wug Test Dr. Wilhelm Reich Wilhelm Reich (March 24, 1897–November 3, 1957) was an Austrian-American psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, and author, who was trained in Vienna by Sigmund Freud. ... Wilhelm Max Wundt (August 16, 1832–August 31, 1920) was a German physiologist and psychologist. ... William James William James (January 11, 1842, New York - August 26, 1910, Chocorua, New Hampshire). ... Time magazine, May 25, 1970 Gynecologist William Howell Masters (December 27, 1915 – February 16, 2001) and psychologist Virginia Eshelman Johnson (born February 11, 1925) pioneered research into human sexual behavior during the 1950s and 1960s. ... Wolfgang Köhler (Reval, January 21, 1887 - New Hampshire, June 11, 1967) was a gestalt psychologist. ... The wug test is an experiment in linguistics, created by Jean Berko Gleason in 1958. ...

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