(psychology) The advocacy of one course of action in such a way as to persuade someone to take an opposite course

A branch of psychology focusing on how and why individuals differ in their behaviour.

(psychology) A branch of psychology that examines internal mental processes such as problem solving, memory, and language.

(psychology) The application of the principles of biology to the study of mental processes and behavior.

Branch of psychology which studies the wills, thoughts, intentions and reactions of criminals.

(psychology) A branch of social psychology which is concerned with the behaviour and thought processes of individual crowd members and the crowd as a whole; a study of the dynamics within large groups of people and the nature of the relationship between the individual and society.

(psychology) A branch of psychology with the purpose of understanding, preventing, and relieving psychologically based distress or dysfunction and to promote subjective well-being and personal development.

Beliefs about psychology that have no basis in fact; psychological prejudices.

(psychology) A school of psychology that emerged in the early twentieth century in Austria and Germany as a theory of perception, that was a rejection of basic principles of Wilhelm Wundt's and Edward Titchener's elementalist and structuralist psychology.

An approach to psychology which attempts to describe and explain the structure, content, and relationship of conscious and unconscious mental activity, and which is intended to serve as a basis for psychoanalytic therapies.