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psychology
psychology science or study of the thought processes and behavior of humans and other animals in their interaction with the environment. Psychologists study processes of sense perception , thinking, learning , cognition, emotions and motivations , personality , abnormal behavior, interactions b... Read more
senility
senility , deterioration of body and mind associated with old age. Indications of old age vary in the time of their appearance. Stooped posture, wrinkled skin, decrease in muscle strength, changes in the lens and muscles of the eye, brittleness of bone and stiffness of the joints, and hardening of t... Read more
casuistry
casuistry [Lat., casus =case], art of applying general moral law to particular cases. Although most often associated with theology (it has been utilized since the inception of Christianity), it is also used in law and psychology. The function of casuistry is to analyze motives so individual judgme... Read more
Edward Bradford Titchener
Edward Bradford Titchener , 1867-1927, American psychologist, b. Chichester, England, grad. Oxford, 1890. He studied in Leipzig (Ph.D. 1892) under Wundt (whose Principles of Physiological Psychology he translated), and in 1892 he became head of the new psychological laboratory at Cornell, where he... Read more
William Halse Rivers Rivers
William Halse Rivers Rivers 1864-1922, British anthropologist. He taught at Cambridge from 1893 until shortly before his death. Trained in medicine and psychology, he pioneered in the experimental study of mental functions among preliterate peoples, making his first field investigations in 1898 amo... Read more
George Trumbull Ladd
George Trumbull Ladd 1842-1921, American philosopher, b. Painesville, Ohio, grad. Western Reserve Univ., 1864, and Andover Theological Seminary, 1869. He taught at Yale from 1881 until his retirement in 1906. Influenced by Hermann Lotze, he worked primarily in experimental psychology and founded th... Read more
Granville Stanley Hall
Granville Stanley Hall 1844-1924, American psychologist and educator, b. Ashfield, Mass., grad. Williams, 1867. G. Stanley Hall taught at Antioch and Harvard, studied experimental psychology in Germany, and in 1882 organized at Johns Hopkins a psychological laboratory that rapidly took a leading po... Read more
Kurt Lewin
Kurt Lewin , 1890-1947, American psychologist, b. Germany, Ph.D. Univ. of Berlin, 1914. He taught at the Univ. of Berlin before coming to the United States in 1932. He was professor (1935-44) of child psychology at the Univ. of Iowa and director (from 1944) of the research center for group dynamics ... Read more
determinism
determinism philosophical thesis that every event is the inevitable result of antecedent causes. Applied to ethics and psychology, determinism usually involves a denial of free will , although many philosophers have attempted to reconcile the two concepts. Thomas Hobbes, identifying the will with ... Read more
Paul F. Lazarsfeld
Paul F. Lazarsfeld , 1901-76, American sociologist, b. Vienna. After beginning as a mathematician, he established a research center for social psychology. Emigrating to the United States in 1933, he taught at Columbia Univ. (1949-69), where he founded the Bureau of Applied Social Research. Lazarsfel... Read more

Encyclopedia entries related to "applied psychology"

Psychology
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to United States History ...beginning of the twentieth century, the new experimental psychology had replaced nineteenth‐century American mental philosophy, a form of Scottish faculty psychology that emphasized the empirical study of the intellect, emotions, and will. The Beginnings of Experimental Psychology. The demise of ... Read more
psychology
Book article from: World Encyclopedia ...intelligence , and social anthropology . Central areas of psychology include neuropsychology, which relates experience and behaviour to brain functioning; cognitive psychology , which studies thought processes; social psychology , which studies behaviour in its social context; and developmental ... Read more
Psychology, Health
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Public Health ...of social psychology. The contribution of health psychology to public health is in such areas as psychological...of the peak flow meter to control asthma). HEALTH PSYCHOLOGY PERSPECTIVES Health psychology deals with individual behavior in a social context...behavior change. One basic assumption in ... Read more
Sir Frederic Charles Bartlett
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...through the development of applied experimental psychology in Britain during and after...Study (1958). Problems in Applied Psychology On the outbreak of World...Medical Research Council's Applied Psychology Research Unit, of which Bartlett... Read more
Psychologist
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of Mental Disorders ...psychology referred to as basic and applied psychology. Basic psychology encompasses...psychology of personality. Applied psychology is the area of psychology concerned...problems. Other subfields of applied psychology include school psychology... Read more
James Rowland Angell
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...Chicago he assisted over 40 doctoral students in psychology, a number of whom later became leaders in psychology (e.g., John B. Watson, an originator of behavioral psychology in America). Angell encouraged his students to study...philosophy, biology, and education. In the field of psychology, ... Read more
Binet, Alfred (1857-1911)
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Children and Childhood in History and Society ...contributions to individual psychology, experimental science, and applied pedagogy transcended the...of the emerging field of psychology; he earned a doctorate in...philosophique article on the psychology of sensations; under the...Laboratory of Experimental Psychology; in 1894, he was ... Read more
Edward Lee Thorndike
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...Thorndike was attracted to human learning and to psychology's potential usefulness to education. He transferred...1899, where he introduced courses in educational psychology, tests and measurements, and the psychology of school subjects. In 1921 he became director of...1906), Education: A First Book ... Read more
Münsterberg, Hugo
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Literature ...in Germany, where he was a professor of philosophy and psychology until he came to the U.S. to teach psychology at Harvard (1892–95, 1897–1916). There he distinguished himself in the fields of applied psychology and philosophy, and wrote such books as The Principles... Read more
determinism
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition philosophical thesis that every event is the inevitable result of antecedent causes. Applied to ethics and psychology, determinism usually involves a denial of free will , although many philosophers have attempted to reconcile the two concepts... Read more

Dictionary entries related to "applied psychology"

psychology of religion
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church psychology of religion. A modern field of study in which the concepts and methods of psychology are applied to religious experience and behaviour...investigate such possible applications of psychology was W. James ; he studied the experience...restatements of permanent value for the psychology ... Read more
Behaviorism
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...the public and the field of psychology a mix of applied technology and philosophical...theoretical tendency within psychology. "Behaviorism," he promised...claimed, psychology could be applied to various human problems created... Read more
IAAP
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Abbreviations IAAP International Association of Applied Psychology Read more
ICAP
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Abbreviations ICAP Institute of Certified Ambulance Personnel • International Congress of Applied Psychology Read more
AIPA
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Abbreviations AIPA Associate Member of the Institute of Practitioners in Advertising • Association Internationale de psychologic appliquée (French: International Association of Applied Psychology) Read more
social science
Book article from: A Dictionary of Sociology social science A general label applied to the study of society and human relationships...disciplines that study human beings, psychology is often seen as a natural rather than...unproblematic social science. Sociology , social psychology , politics, and geography have a more... Read more
autonomy
Book article from: A Dictionary of Sociology autonomy In psychology, the maintenance of the integrity of the self , said to be lacking...an ‘autonomous state’). In sociology, it is usually applied in contexts where the writer has in mind a rational, self-determining... Read more
social Darwinism
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History ...the writer Herbert SPENCER had been inspired by current ideas of evolution to write the Principles of Psychology (1855), where he first applied the concept of evolution to the development of society. The theory, based on the belief that natural... Read more
social constructionism
Book article from: A Dictionary of Sociology ...constructionism is a general term sometimes applied to theories that emphasize the socially...Construction of Community , 1972 ). In psychology, a linked term–constructivism...of environment and subject. In social psychology the term is often used (for example in... Read more
personal construct theory
Book article from: A Dictionary of Sociology ...psychological theory developed by George Alexander Kelly in The Psychology of Personal Constructs (1955), which argues that ‘a...at a particular point in time. The technique was originally applied to the detection of mental disorder but has since been used... Read more

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Where are the non-traditional applied areas of psychology in introductory psychology textbooks?
Magazine article from: North American Journal of Psychology; 12/1/2005; ; 700+ words ; ...combined amount of non-traditional applied psychology content makes up only 1.82...Many of those subfields are applied psychology, which can be defined as using...The largest subfields of applied psychology are clinical, counseling, and... Read more
Topical and applied interests of introductory psychology students.(Report)
Magazine article from: Journal of Instructional Psychology; 12/1/2007; ; 700+ words ; ...continuous measures, introductory psychology students reported highest...areas of clinical and social psychology (over biological, cognitive, and developmental) and for the applied areas of education and health...women preferred developmental psychology more than men, but most pretest... Read more
Applied psychology; new frontiers and rewarding careers.(book)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News; 8/1/2006; 114 words ; 0805853499 Applied psychology; new frontiers and rewarding careers...Paperback The Stauffer symposium on applied psychology at the Clarement Colleges BF636...overview of career opportunities in applied psychology and highlights some of the most... Read more
Applied psychology research trends.(Brief article)(Book review)
Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News; 11/1/2008; 208 words ; 9781604563726 Applied psychology research trends. Ed. by Karl H...recent research from the field of applied psychology. Topics addressed include the theory...identification; application of cognitive psychology to advance understanding of wine... Read more
Applied Cognitive Psychology: A Textbook.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: SciTech Book News; 3/1/2006; 150 words ; 0805833730 Applied cognitive psychology; a textbook. Ed. by Douglas...Indiana State U.) et al. describe applied cognitive psychology, its fundamentals, applications...The authors compare basic and applied cognitive research, methodology... Read more
Blackwell acquires "Journal of Applied Social Psychology"& adds partnerships.
Newspaper article from: Business Publisher; 2/1/2006; 257 words ; ...acquired the Journal of Applied Social Psychology (JASP) from Bellwether...medicine and environmental psychology. An annual print/online...current portfolio of related psychology titles, including Journal of Personality, Personnel Psychology, Journal of Applied Psychology and ... Read more
Industrial/Organizational Psychology: An Applied Approach, 5th ed..(Brief Article)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: SciTech Book News; 9/1/2006; 159 words ; 0495093068 Industrial/organizational psychology; an applied approach, 5th ed. Aamodt, Michael...introduces industrial/organizational psychology in 15 chapters geared toward...this fifth edition include an applied case study at the end of each... Read more
Applied developmental psychology; theory, practice, and research from Japan.(PSYCHOLOGY)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: SciTech Book News; 6/1/2005; 115 words ; ...2004-028257 1-59311-262-9 Applied developmental psychology; theory, practice, and...Shwalb et al. (Advances in applied developmental psychology) Information Age Publishing...relations and the developmental psychology of children with disabilities... Read more
Psychology applied to work; an introduction to industrial and organizational psychology, 8th ed. (workbook included).(Brief Article)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: SciTech Book News; 12/1/2005; 101 words ; 0534607810 Psychology applied to work; an introduction to industrial and organizational psychology, 8th ed. (workbook included) Muchinsky, Paul M. Wadsworth Publishing Co. 2006 554 pages $113.95 Hardcover HF5548 This textbook... Read more
Applied Psychology Research introduces software targeting drop-out online shoppers.(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
Newspaper article from: Telecomworldwire; 6/14/2001; 176 words ; TELECOMWORLDWIRE-14 June 2001-Applied Psychology Research introduces software targeting drop-out...LTD http://www.m2.com The UK software developer Applied Psychology Research has launched Youmeus, its new suite of... Read more