What Are The Major Areas Of Psychology?

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What Are The Major Areas Of Psychology?

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Answer 1

Major areas of psychology
1)     Biological
- Relationship between brain/neural processes and behavior
2)     Cognitive
- How people sense, perceive, remember, think about, and communicate about the world.
3)     Social
- Interactions of individuals and groups with other individuals and groups.
4)     Developmental
- How various psychological processes and behaviors change across the life span, from infants to children to adolescents to adulthood to old age.
5)     Clinical
- The characteristics of psychological dysfunction, and how that dysfunction is treated.

Answer 2

Division 1 – General Psychology
Division 2 – Teaching of Psychology
Division 3 – Experimental Psychology
Division 4 – (vacant) More info
Division 5 – Evaluation, Measurement, and Statistics
Division 6 – Behavioral Neuroscience and Comparative Psychology
Division 7 – Developmental Psychology
Division 8 – Personality and Social Psychology
Division 9 – Psychological Study of Social Issues
Division 10 – Psychology and the Arts
Division 11 – (vacant) More info
Division 12 – Clinical Psychology
Division 13 – Consulting Psychology
Division 14 – Industrial and Organizational Psychology
Division 15 – Educational Psychology
Division 16 – School Psychology
Division 17 – Counseling Psychology
Division 18 – Psychologists in Public Service
Division 19 – Military Psychology
Division 20 – Adult Development and Aging
Division 21 – Applied Experimental and Engineering Psychology
Division 22 – Rehabilitation Psychology
Division 23 – Consumer Psychology
Division 24 – Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology
Division 25 – Behavior Analysis
Division 26 – History of Psychology
Division 27 – Community Psychology
Division 28 – Psychopharmacology and Substance Abuse
Division 29 – Psychotherapy
Division 30 – Psychological Hypnosis
Division 31 – State, Provincial, and Territorial Psychological Association Affairs
Division 32 – Humanistic Psychology
Division 33 – Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities
Division 34 – Population and Environmental Psychology
Division 35 – Psychology of Women
Division 36 – Psychology of Religion
Division 37 – Child, Youth, and Family Services
Division 38 – Health Psychology
Division 39 – Psychoanalysis
Division 40 – Clinical Neuropsychology
Division 41 – Psychology-Law
Division 42 – Psychologists in Independent Practice
Division 43 – Family Psychology
Division 44 – Psychological Study of Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Issues
Division 45 – Psychological Study of Ethnic Minority Issues
Division 46 – Media Psychology
Division 47 – Exercise and Sports Psychology
Division 48 – Peace Psychology
Division 49 – Group Psychology and Group Psychotherapy
Division 50 – Addictions
Division 51 – Psychological Study of Men and Masculinity
Division 52 – International Psychology
Division 53 – Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology
Division 54 – Pediatric Psychology
Division 55 – Pharmacotherapy