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  2. Psychology - Wikipedia

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    Psychology is the scientific study of mind and behavior. [1][2] Its subject matter includes the behavior of humans and nonhumans, both conscious and unconscious phenomena, and mental processes such as thoughts, feelings, and motives. Psychology is an academic discipline of immense scope, crossing the boundaries between the natural and social ...

  3. List of psychological effects - Wikipedia

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    Coolidge effect. Crespi effect. Cross-race effect. Curse of knowledge. Diderot effect. Dunning–Kruger effect. Einstellung effect. Endowment effect. Face superiority effect.

  4. The Principles of Psychology - Wikipedia

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    The Principles of Psychology is an 1890 book about psychology by William James, an American philosopher and psychologist who trained to be a physician before going into psychology. The four key concepts in James' book are: stream of consciousness (his most famous psychological metaphor); emotion (later known as the James–Lange theory); habit ...

  5. History of psychology - Wikipedia

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    Psychology. Psychology is defined as "the scientific study of behavior and mental processes". Philosophical interest in the human mind and behavior dates back to the ancient civilizations of Egypt, Persia, Greece, China, and India. [1]

  6. Cognitive psychology - Wikipedia

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    e. Cognitive psychology is the scientific study of mental processes such as attention, language use, memory, perception, problem solving, creativity, and reasoning. [1] Cognitive psychology originated in the 1960s in a break from behaviorism, which held from the 1920s to 1950s that unobservable mental processes were outside the realm of ...

  7. File:Introduction to Psychology.pdf - Wikipedia

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    File:Introduction to Psychology.pdf. Size of this JPG preview of this PDF file: 423 × 599 pixels. Other resolutions: 169 × 240 pixels | 339 × 480 pixels | 542 × 768 pixels | 1,239 × 1,754 pixels. This is a file from the Wikimedia Commons. Information from its description page there is shown below.

  8. Educational psychology - Wikipedia

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    Educational psychology is the branch of psychology concerned with the scientific study of human learning.The study of learning processes, from both cognitive and behavioral perspectives, allows researchers to understand individual differences in intelligence, cognitive development, affect, motivation, self-regulation, and self-concept, as well as their role in learning.

  9. Positive psychology - Wikipedia

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    Psychology. Positive psychology is a field of psychological theory and research of optimal human functioning of people, groups, and institutions. [1][2] It studies "positive subjective experience, positive individual traits, and positive institutions... it aims to improve quality of life." [3]