psychology (noun)
41act psychology — noun : psychology conceived as the study of the individual act especially for meaning and intent called also intentionalism; contrasted with content psychology …
42faculty psychology — noun : an outmoded school of psychology that attempted to account for human behavior by positing various mental powers or agencies on an a priori basis compare faculty 4c * * * faculty psychology, the explanation of mental facts by the operation… …
43folk psychology — noun Etymology: translation of German völkerpsychologie 1. : the study of the mind and behavior especially of primitive peoples through analysis of the human factors involved in their cultural and technological development 2. : the mental traits… …
44race psychology — noun 1. : folk psychology 2. : comparative psychology 2 …
45abnormal psychology — noun Date: circa 1903 a branch of psychology concerned with mental and emotional disorders (as neuroses, psychoses, and mental retardation) and with certain incompletely understood normal phenomena (as dreams and hypnosis) …
46depth psychology — noun Date: 1924 psychoanalysis; also psychology concerned especially with the unconscious mind …
47physiological psychology — noun Date: 1888 a branch of psychology that deals with the effects of normal and pathological physiological processes on mental life called also psychophysiology …
48evolutionary psychology — noun A theoretical approach to psychology that attempts to explain mental and psychological traits such as memory, perception, or language as adaptations, that is, as the functional products of natural selection …
49clinical psychology — noun A branch of psychology with purpose of understanding, preventing, and relieving psychologically based distress or dysfunction and to promote subjective well being and personal development …
50cognitive psychology — noun A branch of psychology that examines internal mental processes such as problem solving, memory, and language …
