The scientific study of mental processes.
Psychology deals with all internal aspects of the mind, such as memory, feelings, thought, and perception, as well as external manifestations, such as speech and behaviour.
Psychology is also concerned with intelligence, learning, and personality development.
The scienti?c study of people: how they think, and how and why they act, react and interact as they do. It covers such matters as memory, rational and irrational thought, intelligence, learning, personality, perceptions and emotions. There are di?erent schools of psychology, varying both in attitude and in methods of working. The main groups consist of the introspectionist Freudian, Jungian and Adlerian schools, and the gestaltist, behaviourist and cognitive schools. Although many practical psychologists deny belonging to any speci?c school, contemporary psychology in general favours the cognitive schools, although many are sub-specialities based on practical considerations. (See also FREUDIAN THEORY; JUNGIAN ANALYSIS; ADLER; GESTALTISM; PSYCHOLOGIST.)
Profession dealing with peoples’ behaviour and cognition and their effects.
n. the scientific study of behaviour and its related mental processes. Psychology is concerned with such matters as memory, rational and irrational thought, intelligence, learning, personality, perceptions, and emotions and their relationship to behaviour. Schools of psychology differ in their philosophy and methods. They include the introspectionist Freudian, Jungian, and Adlerian schools and the gestaltist, behaviourist, and cognitive schools; contemporary psychology tends strongly towards the latter (see cognitive psychology). Many practical psychologists profess not to belong to any school; some take an eclectic position. The branches of psychology, on the other hand, are functional or professional subspecialities based on practical considerations. They include abnormal, analytic, applied, clinical, comparative, developmental, educational, experimental, geriatric, industrial, infant, physiological, and social psychology. —psychological adj.
the branch of psychology concerned with all human activities relating to knowledge. More specifically, cognitive psychology is concerned with how knowledge is acquired, stored, correlated, and retrieved, by studying the mental processes underlying attention, concept formation, information processing, memory, and speech. Cognitive psychology views the brain as an information-processing system operating on, and storing, the data acquired by the senses. It investigates this function by experiments designed to measure and analyse human performance in carrying out a wide range of mental tasks. The data obtained allows possible models of the underlying mental processes to be constructed. These models do not purport to represent the actual physiological activity of the brain. Nevertheless, as they are refined by testing and criticism, it is hoped that they may approach close to reality and gradually lead to a clearer understanding of how the brain operates.... cognitive psychology
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