Psychology/Talk

The below category schemes were added by an anonymous Wikipedia user. They really are not very helpful--they're completely nonstandard and they make zero sense to me. --Larry Sanger

Divisions of Psychology - Scheme II

• [abnormal psychology]?
• ageing?
• attachment?
• attention?
• central nervous system
• consciousness
• [development of language]?
• dream?
• emotion?
• [environmental psychology]?
• imprinting
• [inheritance and behavior]?
• [intellectual development]?
• intelligence
• learning?
• life-changes?
• manipulation?
• [maternal deprivation]?
• [measuring mental characteristics]?
• [non-verbal communication]?
• perception?
• phobia
• play
• priming?
• self-programming?
• [sensory information processing]?
• [social perception]?
• [social pressure]?
• socialization?
• [some theories of child development]?
• stress
• [thinking and remembering]?
• [Weber-Fechner's Law]?
• work

Divisions of Psychology - Scheme III

• mind
  • [state of mind]?
    • [states or qualities of mind of longer indurance]?
      • intelligence
      • consciousness
      • memory
        • [priming, sensorial]
        • [procedural]
        • [grammatical]
        • [verbal]
      • sleep
        • dream?
      • [hypnagogue state]?
      • daydream?
      • meditation
      • attention?
      • emotion?
      • play
      • sexual behaviour
    • [states of mind of conditional short indurance]?
      • [thinking and remembering]?
      • short-term memory
      • reflex/reaction?
      • orgasm
    • [states of mind of long indurance]?
      • long-term memory
      • habits?
      • [[development (why not!)]]
        • imprinting
        • learning?
        • [intellectual development]?
        • ageing?
    • [inheritance of states of mind]?
      • [animal vs. human]?
      • [inherited disorders]?
        • [genes expressed in the brain]?
        • [inherited indirect effects on the state of mind]?
          • [by gene-sequence]?
            • [inherited metabolic disorders with effect on the brain]?
          • [by circumstances]?
  • [[the other side of the medal: linking to physiological processes]]
    • [sensory information processing]?
    • illusion?
      • justification?
• methods?
  • observation
  • experiment?
  • measurement
    • [measuring mental characteristics]?
  • simulation?
    • [simulation inside our brain]?
      • understanding?
    • [simulation in artificial system]?
  • cognitive science
• [inherencies of the system]?
  • stress
    • [Weber-Fechner's Law]?
  • self-programming?
    • creativity?
  • manipulation?
• [the individual in the environment]?
  • communication
    • language
    • behaviour?
      • [non-verbal communication]?
  • perception?
    • phobia
  • [group psychology]?
    • [psychological stress]?
    • peacemaking?
      • [great peacemakers]?
      • [process of civilization]?

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I especially like the inclusion of 'great peacemakers' as a division of psychology! Talk about a totalizing schema. --MichaelTinkler

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Why not take the chance to make some brains working, maybe even literally? Thanks, Scheme III is from me, as a new Wikipedian I just haven't figured out how to sign in properly, yet. Simply add my name and then fill out the preferences? I'll try it out immediately. --[Wolfgang Moecklin]?