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Psychology - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Psychopathology
      - Mental disorders and treatment
    - - Brain structure and function
      - Neurotransmitters, hormones
    - - Assessment, diagnosis, psychotherapy
    - - Memory, attention, perception
      - Decision-making, language
      - Problem-solving
    - - Animal behavior
    - - Social issues
      - Group well-being
    - - Lifespan changes
      - Infancy → childhood → adolescence → adulthood → aging
    - - Legal system, criminal investigation
    - - Work performance
      - Employee selection
      - Usability and product design
    - - Personality structure
        
        Freud’s model
        
        Big Five
    - - Support in education
      - Emotional and academic development
    - - Social influence
      - Leadership
      - Group dynamics
      - Nonverbal communication
      - Conformity and aggression
      - Prejudice
  - - - Academic and applied science
      - Studies mind, behavior, mental processes
      - Main goals: understand → explain → predict
    - - Philosophy and biology roots
        
        Aristotle, Socrates
      - Term “psyche” = soul, mind
      - Wilhelm Wundt, 1879 — first psychology lab
    - - Structuralism
      - Functionalism
      - Psychoanalysis
      - Behaviorism
      - Humanism
      - Cognitivism
    - - Academic:
        
        Personality research
        
        Human development
        
        Social behavior
      - Applied:
        
        Therapy
        
        Ergonomics
        
        Forensic practice
        
        Industrial-organizational psychology
  - - - Information processing
      - Memory, thinking, perception
      - Language and problem-solving
    - - Pre-1950 — behaviorism dominance
      - 1950–1970 — cognitive revolution
      - 1967 — Neisser’s “Cognitive Psychology”
    - - Processes that transform, store, recover and use information
      - Includes mental operations without external stimuli
        
        Images
        
        Hallucinations
    - - Against behaviorism — studies internal processes
      - Against psychoanalysis — uses scientific methods
      - Interdisciplinary links:
        
        Neuroscience
        
        Linguistics
        
        Philosophy