Behavioral Genetics
in Psychology
Published online November 2011.
Article. Subjects: psychology; cognitive psychology; developmental psychology; health psychology; history and systems in psychology; school and educational psychology; social psychology. 12116 words.
Behavioral genetics is the study of genetic and environmental influences on behaviors. By examining genetic influence, more information can be gleaned about how the environment operates...
Bereavement and Grief
in Psychology
Published online November 2011.
Article. Subjects: psychology; cognitive psychology; developmental psychology; health psychology; history and systems in psychology; school and educational psychology; social psychology. 10926 words.
The field of bereavement and grief focuses on the human experience of loss in response to the death of a loved one. The term bereavement refers to the objective status of a person who...
Biological Psychology
in Psychology
Published online November 2011.
Article. Subjects: psychology; cognitive psychology; developmental psychology; health psychology; history and systems in psychology; school and educational psychology; social psychology. 15892 words.
Biological psychology approaches behavior and experience with the assumption that they are products of the nervous system, as it has been molded through evolution. This field encompasses...
Clinical Neuropsychology
in Psychology
Published online November 2011.
Article. Subjects: psychology; cognitive psychology; developmental psychology; health psychology; history and systems in psychology; school and educational psychology; social psychology. 10907 words.
Clinical neuropsychology is the psychological specialty that seeks to elucidate brain-behavior relations through the study of the neurobehavioral consequences of various forms of brain...
Clinical Psychology
in Psychology
Published online June 2012.
Article. Subjects: psychology; cognitive psychology; developmental psychology; health psychology; history and systems in psychology; school and educational psychology; social psychology. 15859 words.
Clinical psychology is a broad discipline that focuses on the assessment, diagnosis, etiology (causes), treatment, and prevention of mental disorders. Many clinical psychologists work in...
Cognitive Neuroscience
in Psychology
Published online November 2011.
Article. Subjects: psychology; cognitive psychology; developmental psychology; health psychology; history and systems in psychology; school and educational psychology; social psychology. 7504 words.
In 1918, the American philosopher and psychologist William James wrote: “Nature in her unfathomable designs had mixed us of clay and flame, of brain and mind, that the two things hang...
Conformity, Compliance, and Obedience
in Psychology
Published online July 2012.
Article. Subjects: psychology; cognitive psychology; developmental psychology; health psychology; history and systems in psychology; school and educational psychology; social psychology. 9095 words.
Social influence refers to the ways people influence the beliefs, feelings, and behaviors of others. Each day we are bombarded by countless attempts by others to influence us, and as...
Critical Thinking
in Psychology
Published online November 2011.
Article. Subjects: psychology; cognitive psychology; developmental psychology; health psychology; history and systems in psychology; school and educational psychology; social psychology. 10635 words.
Critical thinking has been described in many ways, but researchers generally agree that critical thinking involves rational, purposeful, and goal-directed thinking (see Defining Critical...
Cultural Psychology
in Psychology
Published online November 2011.
Article. Subjects: psychology; cognitive psychology; developmental psychology; health psychology; history and systems in psychology; school and educational psychology; social psychology. 12648 words.
Cultural psychology is the study of how people shape and are shaped by their cultures. Topics of study in this field include similarities and differences between cultures in terms of...
Defensive Processes
in Psychology
Published online November 2011.
Article. Subjects: psychology; cognitive psychology; developmental psychology; health psychology; history and systems in psychology; school and educational psychology; social psychology. 7550 words.
Defensive processes may be defined as an underlying series of mental operations, occurring primarily outside of a person’s awareness, that result in either (1) an experience being...