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psychology

noun

1. behaviourism, study of personality, science of mind He is Professor of Psychology at Bedford Community College.

2. (Informal) way of thinking, attitude, behaviour, temperament, mentality, thought processes, mental processes, what makes you tick, mental make-up a fascination with the psychology of serial killers

Quotations

"There is no psychology; there is only biography and autobiography" [Thomas Szasz The Second Sin]

Psychology

Branches of psychology  analytic psychology, child psychology, clinical psychology, comparative psychology, developmental psychology, educational psychology, experimental psychology, hedonics, industrial psychology, neuropsychology, organizational psychology, parapsychology, psychiatry, psycholinguistics, psychometrics, psychophysics, psychophysiology, social psychology

Psychology terms  alter ego, anal, analysis, angst, anxiety, complex, compulsion, conditioning, consciousness, death wish, delusion, dementia, depression, Electra complex, ego, extrovert, fixation, Freudian slip, Gestalt therapy, group therapy, hypnosis, hypochondria, hysteria, id, inferiority complex, introvert, mania, mind, neurosis, obsession, Oedipus complex, paranoia, persecution complex, persona, personality, personality disorder, phobia, primal therapy or primal scream therapy, psyche, psychoanalysis, psychosis, psychosomatic, regression, repression, Rorschach test or inkblot test, schizophrenia, self, stress, subconscious, sublimation, superego, syndrome, trauma, unconscious

Psychologists  Alfred Adler (Austrian), Émile Coué (French), Hermann Ebbinghaus (German), Hans Jürgen Eysenck (German-British), Gustav Theodor Fechner (German), Sigmund Freud (Austrian), Erich Fromm (U.S.), Ewald Hering (German), Karen Horney (German-U.S.), William James (U.S.), Pierre Marie Félix Janet (French), Carl Gustav Jung (Swiss), Wolfgang Köhler (German), Alexander Romanovich Luria (Russian), Johannes Peter Müller (German), Hugo Münsterberg (German), Ivan Petrovich Pavlov (Russian), Jean Piaget (Swiss), Wilhelm Reich (Austrian), B(urrhus) F(rederic) Skinner (U.S.), Edward Lee Thorndike (U.S.), John Watson (U.S.), Wilhelm Max Wundt (German)

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