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edit   The Psychology Portal Psychology (Greek: ψυχολογία) is the academic and applied study of behavior, mind, and their underlying mechanisms. It primarily applies to humans but can also be applied to non-humans such as animals or artificial systems. Psychology also refers to the application of such knowledge to various spheres of activity, including problems of human beings' daily lives and the treatment of mental illness. The field contains a range of sub-areas (for instance, the studies of development, personality, and language), as well as many different theoretical orientations (such as behaviorism, evolutionary psychology, and psychoanalysis). Psychology draws from a number of other fields of study, including biology, sociology, anthropology, and philosophy. Psychology: • Applied  • Behavioral  • Genetics  • Biological  • Clinical  • Cognitive  • Community  • Developmental  • Educational  • Environmental  • Evolutionary Gestalt  • Humanistic  • Industrial/Organizational  • Intelligence  • Personality  • Linguistics  • Psychoanalytic  • Sensory  • Quantitative  • Social  • Transpersonal edit   Selected article An autostereogram is a single-image stereogram (SIS), designed to create the visual illusion of a three-dimensional (3D) scene from a two-dimensional image in the human brain. In order to perceive 3D shapes in these autostereograms, the brain must overcome the normally automatic coordination between focusing and vergence. Autostereograms are similar to normal stereograms except they are viewed without a stereoscope. A stereoscope presents 2D images of the same object from slightly different angles to the left eye and the right eye, allowing the brain to reconstruct the original object via binocular disparity. With an autostereogram, the brain receives repeating 2D patterns from both eyes, but fails to correctly match them. It pairs two adjacent patterns into a virtual object based on wrong parallax angles, thus placing the virtual object at a depth different from that of the autostereogram image. edit   Selected picture Sigmund Freud was an Austrian neurologist and the founder of the psychoanalytic school of psychology. His therapeutic technique frequently involved talking with his patients while they reclined on his famous couch. edit   Quotes "Cogito, ergo sum: I think, therefore I am." — René Descartes "There's a good reason why nobody studies history, it just teaches you too much." — Noam Chomsky "Knowing reality means constructing systems of transformations that correspond, more or less adequately, to reality." — Jean Piaget edit   Related portals Neuroscience Mind and Brain Medicine Language Philosophy Education edit   Selected psychologist William James (January 11, 1842, New York – August 26, 1910, Chocorua, New Hampshire) was a pioneering American psychologist and philosopher. He wrote influential books on the young science of psychology, psychology of religious experience and mysticism, and the philosophy of pragmatism. edit   Did you know... ...that ASNOVA was a group of architects that linked psychology and architecture by building laboratories and expounding psychological theories? ...that Alexander Everett used techniques from the Unity Church and Jose Silva's Silva Mind Control, in his company Mind Dynamics? ...that BBC journalist Leonard Miall worked on psychological warfare in New York and San Francisco with the Political Warfare Executive during World War II? ...that Peter Birkhäuser was so moved by a moth trapped by a window that he painted its picture, and later analysed his thoughts and corresponded with Carl Jung? ...that approximately 1 in 8 of Americans suffer from phobias? edit   Psychology lists Psychologists Psychology topics Publications in psychology Category:Psychology lists edit   Categories Psychology (books) Branches • Emotion • Experiments • Motivation • Organizations • Perception • Personality • Psychological: (Abuse • Schools • Tests • Theories) • Psychologists • Psychotherapy • Publications edit   Psychology topics Psychology (book)  • History  • Psychologist  • Publications Branches Applied  • Genetics  • Biological  • Clinical  • Cognitive  • Community  • Counseling  • Developmental  • Educational  • Environmental  • Evolutionary  • Forensic  • Industrial and organisational  • Intelligence  • Personality  • Psycholinguistics  • Sensory  • Quantitative  • Social Schools • Cognitivism  • Differential Psychology  • Ecological systems theory  • Functionalism  • Gestalt  • Humanistic  • Psychoanalysis  • Structuralism  • Transpersonal edit   WikiProjects Psychology • Psychopathology • Neuroscience edit   Notable psychologists Gordon Allport • Albert Bandura • Raymond Cattell • Erik Erikson • Hans Eysenck • Leon Festinger • Sigmund Freud • Donald Hebb • Clark Hull • William James • Carl Jung • Jerome Kagan • Kurt Lewin • Abraham Maslow • Melanie Klein • David McClelland • George Miller • Neal Miller • Jacob Moreno • Ivan Pavlov • Jean Piaget • Wilfred Bion • Wilhelm Reich • Carl Rogers • Stanley Schachter • B. F. Skinner • Horacio Etchegoyen • Edward Thorndike • John Watson • Andre Green • Wilhelm Wundt ...Archive/Nominations edit   Things you can do Join the Psychology WikiProject - Help work on the tasks list Psychology WikiProject and Portal Here are some Psychology related tasks you can do: Categories under discussion for possible deletion or renaming: Translate from German into English: Trigant Burrow, Paul Schilder, Samuel Slavson, Focus (top priority) articles: Experimental psychology, Developmental psychology Refine/polish: Oniomania, Aggression, Panic attack Expand: Psychography, Experimental psychology, Insomnia, More... NPOV: Psychiatric imprisonment, More... Cleanup/Copyedit: Behavior analysis of child development, Child sexuality, Psychohistorical views on infanticide, Panic attack, Hawthorne effect, Personality psychology, Behavior change (written from public health perspective), stereotype, More... 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Collaborate: Crying, More... edit   Web resources About Psychology American Educational Research Association American Evaluation Association American Psychiatric Association American Psychological Association Association for Behavior Analysis Association for Psychological Science British Psychological Society Classics in the History of Psychology Core studies in psychology Encyclopedia of Psychology Everyday Psychology Blog Learn Psychology Mental Disorder Classification from DSM-IV-TR Mental Disorder Classification from ICD-10 Jean Piaget Society Psi Beta, the National Honor Society in Psychology for Junior Colleges Psi Chi, the National Honor Society in Psychology PsychBLOG Psych Central Psychforums, Psychology and Mental Health forums Psych Web Psychology Directory Psychology Information Online Psychology Resource Information System: psyris.com Psychology Wiki Sport Psychologist Social Psychology Network Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology Society for Occupational Health Psychology Society for Research in Child Development AllPsych Online NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy & Psychoanalysis edit   Associated Wikimedia What are portals? 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