Subfields of Psychology
Sports Psychology
Sports psychology is the study of how psychology influences sports, athletic performance, exercise and physical activity.
Developmental Psychology
The field of psychology looks at development throughout the lifespan, from childhood to adulthood.
Educational Psychology
Educational Psychology involves the study of how people learn, including topics such as student outcomes, the instructional process, individual differences in learning, gifted learners and learning disabilities.
Lucifer Effect
The Stanford Prison Experiment, a set up prison in the basement of the Stanford Psychology Unit
Bystander Effect
The bystander effect is an effect where people are less likely to help another person in need if others are present in the area.
Experimental Psychology
Experimental Psychology is an area of psychology that utilizes scientific methods to research the mind and behavior.
Health Psychology
The field of health psychology is focused on promoting health as well as the prevention and treatment of disease and illness.
Personality Psychology
Personality psychology looks at the patterns of thoughts, feelings, and behavior that make a person unique.
Bobo the Doll
The idea that an individual, especially young children, may learn a certain behavior or way to act by imitating an adult.
False Consensus
Humans tend to believe that the majority of population have the same opinions, beliefs, an behaviors as themselves and that the way they view the world in a similar way
Abnormal Psychology
Abnormal Psychology is a field of psychology that deals with psychopathology and abnormal behavior.
Cognitive Psychology
Cognitive psychology is the branch of psychology that studies mental processes including how people think, perceive, remember and learn.
Obedience to Authority
If an authority figure asks an ordinary person to do a task, then the person will complete the task even if it is dangerous.
Halo Effect
The idea that upon meeting somebody if the first judgment you make is positive, you will most likely attribute all the positive emotions to this person.
Little Albert
When conditioned, people can learn to be scared of things
Clinical Psychology
Clinical psychology is the branch of psychology concerned with the assessment and treatment of mental illness, abnormal behavior and psychiatric problems.
Social Psychology
The study of how we link, feel, and act when in the presence of others, whether they are real or imagined.
Conformity
People will purposely choose the incorrect answer to be in agreement with the group even though the group's answer is clearly wrong.
Harlow's Monkeys
The Harlow monkey experiment also showed that the younger the child, the more crucial the need for comfort
Learned Helplessness
A state where an individual, after repeated exposure to uncontrollable aversive stimuli, stops trying to avoid or change those stimuli, even when they have an opportunity to do so
Biopsychology
Biopsychology is a field of psychology that analyzes how the brain and neurotransmitters influence our behaviors, thoughts and feelings.
Industrial Organizational Psychology
Industrial-Organizational Psychology is a field of psychology that applies psychological theories and principles to organizations.
Classical Conditioning
The research of the digestive system of dogs.
Cognitive Dissonance
When something contradicts someone's personal beliefs, they may feel uneasy and attempt to make the beliefs and habits more consistent.
Correlation
A relationship between two or more variables where changes in one variable tend to be associated with changes in another