Talk:Psychology/Outline

Incomplete tentative outline for revisions of Psychology article.

1. Etymology and meaning

• Expand current section to include discussion of what "psychology" is)
• Possibly add material about Philosophy of psychology (the literature base if not the Wikipedia article) regarding the scope of psychology

2. History

• Premodern: China, India, Greece, ?, ; add Psychology in medieval Islam / Sufi psychology
• Birth of experimental psychology
• More needed on Gestalt psychology?
• Move most of the material on psychoanalysis and cognitivism to "Major schools of thought"
• Research/add practical developments regarding the field and the practitioners, globally, though with regard to the USA as home to numerically the most psychologists.
• Possibly add section on World War 2 ↆ and/or Cold War.
• Possibly include material on the role of psychology in 1960s and 1970s counterculture with reference to such entities as the Esalen Institute

3. Disciplinary organization

• Possibly move here & revise material on "Disciplinary consolidation", currently in the History section.
• Professional organizations
  • APA, etc. (APA subdivisions for reference: http://www.apa.org/about/division/ )
  • See: Psychologist, Category:Psychology organizations, List of psychology organizations
  • Psychonomic society?
• Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, DSM-5
• Perceived disciplinary separation between psychology and psychiatry.
• International psychology

Preserve material currently under "Subfields", splitting it where appropriate between "Major schools of thought" and "Applications".

4. Major schools of thought

• Behavioral
  • Classical conditioning, operant conditioning
  • Behaviorism, Radical behaviorism, Experimental analysis of behavior
  • Behavior modification
  • Ethology
  • Association for Behavior Analysis International, Professional practice of behavior analysis
• Cognitive
  • Hypnosis, Priming (psychology), subliminal messaging
  • Cognitive revolution, Cognitive psychology,
  • Cognitive biases
• Biological
  • Perception, psychophysics, nervous system, brain, brain function
  • Neuropsychology
  • Cognitive neuroscience, Behavioral neuroscience
• Social
  • Social psychology, social cognition
  • Group dynamics, Crowd psychology
  • Political psychology, authoritarian personality
• Psychoanalytic
  • Freudian, neo-Freudian, etc.
  • Jungian / analytic
  • Brief mentions of myriad spinoffs, including political types such as the Frankfurt School
• Existential-humanistic
  • "Humanistic"
  • "Existential"
  • Feminist psychology?
  • Critical psychology?
  • Transactional analysis? (or do these belong elsewhere?)

5. Methods

• Sections remains mostly as structured
• Could use tweaking and maybe some expansion from sources
• Add "Introspection", Phenomenology (psychology)
• Link Psychological statistics

6. Applications

• Mental health
  • Abnormal psychology etc
  • Clinical psychology, Cognitive-behavioral therapy, Medical psychology?
  • Psychiatry, Prescriptive authority for psychologists movement
• Mental testing
  • Intelligence quotient
  • Various standardized tests
• Child development and education
  • Developmental psychology
  • Child psychology
  • Educational psychology, Learning, etc.
• Workplace
  • Industrial and organizational psychology
  • Taylorism (Frederick Winslow Taylor) / Scientific management
  • Sociotechnical system
  • Occupational health psychology
• Psychology of specialized activities?
  • Sports psychology
  • Psychology of music
• Military / intelligence
  • Military psychology
  • Interrogation
  • Mind control, MKULTRA
  • Psychological warfare
• Psychological manipulation
  • Advertising, marketing, Consumer behaviour
  • Persuasion, Elaboration likelihood model
• Personal development
  • Self-help, self esteem
  • Positive psychology
  • Health psychology, nutrition psychology
• Social misc.
  • Community psychology
  • Correctional psychology, Forensic psychology
  • And many other entries from Applied psychology, Category:Branches of psychology, List of psychology disciplines, and probably elsewhere.

7. Interdisciplinary connections of psychology:

• Behavioral economics
• Anthropology: Cultural psychology, Cross-cultural psychology
• Psychiatry
• International Literature and Psychology Conference (is there a Wikipedia article about this area of study, itself?)
• Psycholinguistics
• Cybernetics, systems psychology http://www.kybernetika.cz/view_file.html?item=218
• Enactivism, Embodied cognition
• Artificial intelligence

8. Criticisms

• Trim current entries (disproportionate compared to rest of article)
• Contemplate more diverse criticisms;
• Political criticism; relevant material at political abuse of psychiatry?
• Possibly expand "Ethical standards" into its own section

Other topics: where to put these?

• Personality psychology & differential psychology
• Relatedly, psychology of sex and gender: Feminine psychology, Masculine psychology, Sex differences in psychology, sexual orientation?
• Psychology of religion (interdisciplinary? 'specialized activity'? social psych?)
• Descriptive psychology (what is this?)
• Post-cognitivist psychology (is this even real?) Similarly: Postmodern psychology

Notes:

Goal: use descriptive readable language, avoid "outline" style of referencing a series of other articles/topics without explaining them.

Revise lead after article reaches stable form -- lead should reflect major themes of article.

Rule of thumb for article size: do not exceed the length of Cold War.

ↆ "The Second World War divides the history of American psychology into two major epochs. Before the war psychology was largely an academic discipline, imbued with an ideology of experimental natural science. Following the war, psychology became identified increasingly as a consulting profession offering practical services to a variety of clients, including commercial enterprises, government agencies, and private citizens. World War II acted as a catalyst for the professionalization of applied psychology, fundamentally altering the relation between science and practice in the discipline." (http://repository.upenn.edu/dissertations/AAI8703185/)

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