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Adlerian psychology
* addresses the complete range of human experience, from optimal to pathological.
* is very much a values-oriented psychology.

Child psychology
* is the systematic investigation of the psychological processes of childhood.
* specialized field modeled after ideal parenting.

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Cognitive psychology
* Cognitive psychologies are part of cognitive science
* examines how individuals deviate from rationality in making decisions.
* is committed to an empirical, scientific approach to studying human cognition
  - concerned with all of the human information processing faculties
  - one of the most important and influential areas of modern psychology
  - the science which studies cognition
* is the scientific field devoted to studying our special mental capacities
  - study of how people acquire and use information
  - study of how people perceive, act, communicate, and reason
* is the study of human thinking and memory processes
  - thought processes and cognitions
  - mental processes
  - the fundamental capacities of the human mind
* is, in some ways, the prototypical psychological science.
* laboratory science.
* makes a further distinction, between automatic and attentional behaviour.
* pertains to thinking and information processing.
* portrays learners as active processors of information.
* proposes yet another way to study the causal mechanisms of animal behaviour.
* stresses the contextual nature of knowledge, strategies, and expertise.
* studies the higher mental processes of humans.
+ Cognition: Psychology
  * This process is the way we think. Cognitive psychology is the science which studies cognition.

Community psychology
* analyzes the situational problems in living.
* does target systemic sources of suffering.
* is both a content area in psychology and a means for promoting social change
  - ultimately about empowering others
* vital part of the present day system of public and community health.

Comparative psychology
* is an extension of work done in human psychology
  - the branch of psychology concerned with the study of animal behavior
* studies the behavior and mental life of animals other than humans.

Consumer psychology
* affects spending habits.
* relatively young field with a very exciting future.

Contemporary psychology
* looks at gender as a continuum of psychological difference.
* thriving science and profession.

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Developmental psychology
* Developmental Psychology See Psychology
  - psychologies are psychologies
* concentrates on how the human grows and develops.
* examines the changes that occur over the lifetime of the individual.
* is also an active research area
  - an area that looks at human growth and development over the lifespan
  - concerned with both stability and change across the lifespan
  - interested in how people develop and change through their lives
  - one of the main research areas
  - the study of human psychological development
* subfield of psychology.
* traces human growth from birth to old age.
+ Development, Social science and politics, Psychology
+ Psychology, Branches

Educational psychology
* addresses the topic of learning by studying three aspects of learning.
* attempts to foster such a point of view.
* field of study.
* is nothing but the psychology of learning
  - the study of psychology in education
* supplies the constructivist theories of learning.