Psychology Articles

• Psychiatry
  Disorders and Syndromes
  Child Psychology
  Anxiety
  Child Development
  Perception
   

  Emotional detachment

  Emotional detachment can mean two different things. In the first meaning, it refers to an inability to connect with others on an emotional level, as well as a means of coping with anxiety by avoiding ... > more
• Perception
  Psychology
  Social Psychology
  Spirituality
  Intelligence
  Relationships
   
  

  Happiness

  Happiness is a prolonged or lasting emotional or affective state that feels good or pleasing. Overlapping states or experiences associated with happiness include wellbeing, joy, sexual pleasure, ... > more
• Educational Psychology
  Intelligence
  Child Development
  Behavior
  Psychology
  Language Acquisition
   

  Instructional design

  Instructional design, also known as instructional systems design, is the analysis of learning needs and systematic development of ... > more
• Healthy Aging
  Attention Deficit Disorder
  Psychology
  Sports Medicine
  Borderline Personality Disorder
  Perception
   
  

  Emotion

  Emotion, in its most general definition, is a neural impulse that moves an organism to action, prompting automatic reactive behavior that has been adapted through evolution as a survival mechanism to ... > more
• Intelligence
  Psychology
  Educational Psychology
  Child Psychology
  Child Development
  Psychiatry
   
  

  Intellectual giftedness

  Intellectual giftedness is an intellectual ability significantly higher than average. Giftedness is a trait that starts at birth and continues throughout the life-span. Giftedness is not a marker of ... > more
• Relationships
  Social Psychology
  Psychology
  Intelligence
  Perception
  Gender Difference
   
  

  Platonic love

  Platonic love in its modern popular sense is an affectionate relationship into which the sexual element does not enter, especially in cases where one might easily assume otherwise. A simple example ... > more
• Intelligence
  Child Development
  Child Psychology
  Psychology
  Language Acquisition
  Behavior
   
  

  Theory of cognitive development

  Although there is no general theory of cognitive development, the most historically influential theory was developed by Jean Piaget, a Swiss Psychologist (1896-1980). His theory provided many central ... > more
• Memory
  Dementia
  Intelligence
  Educational Psychology
  Neuroscience
  Psychology
   
  

  Memory

  Memory is the ability of the brain to store, retain, and subsequently recall information. Although traditional studies of memory began in the realms of philosophy, the late nineteenth and early ... > more
• Educational Psychology
  Psychology
  Behavior
  Borderline Personality Disorder
  Social Psychology
  Perception
   

  Self-concept

  Self-concept or self-identity is the mental and conceptual awareness and persistent regard that sentient beings hold with regard their own ... > more
• Psychology
  Social Psychology
  Behavior
  Child Psychology
  Child Development
  Educational Psychology
   
  

  Humanistic psychology

  Humanistic psychology is a school of psychology that emerged in the 1950s in reaction to both behaviorism and psychoanalysis. The humanistic approach has its roots in existentialist thought (see ... > more

Search ScienceDaily