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Differential psychology

Index Differential psychology

Differential psychology studies the ways in which individuals differ in their behavior and the processes that underlie it. [1]

27 relations: Behavioural genetics, Clinical psychology, Developmental psychology, Educational psychology, Industrial and organizational psychology, Intelligence, Intelligence quotient, Interest (emotion), Memory, Mental chronometry, Motivation, Nature Reviews Neuroscience, Neo-Piagetian theories of cognitive development, Personality, Personality psychology, Personalized medicine, Placebo, Psychological research, Review of General Psychology, Self-concept, Self-efficacy, Self-esteem, Social psychology, Stimulus (psychology), Treatment and control groups, Value (ethics), Yerkes–Dodson law.

Behavioural genetics

Behavioural genetics also referred to as behaviour genetics, is a field of scientific research that uses genetic methods to investigate the nature and origins of individual differences in behaviour.

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Clinical psychology

Clinical psychology is an integration of science, theory and clinical knowledge for the purpose of understanding, preventing, and relieving psychologically-based distress or dysfunction and to promote subjective well-being and personal development.

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Developmental psychology

Developmental psychology is the scientific study of how and why human beings change over the course of their life.

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Educational psychology

Educational psychology is the branch of psychology concerned with the scientific study of human learning.

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Industrial and organizational psychology

Industrial and organizational psychology (I/O psychology), which is also known as occupational psychology, organizational psychology, and work and organizational psychology, is an applied discipline within psychology.

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Intelligence

Intelligence has been defined in many different ways to include the capacity for logic, understanding, self-awareness, learning, emotional knowledge, reasoning, planning, creativity, and problem solving.

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Intelligence quotient

An intelligence quotient (IQ) is a total score derived from several standardized tests designed to assess human intelligence.

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Interest (emotion)

Interest is a feeling or emotion that causes attention to focus on an object, event, or process.

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Memory

Memory is the faculty of the mind by which information is encoded, stored, and retrieved.

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Mental chronometry

Mental chronometry is the use of response time in perceptual-motor tasks to infer the content, duration, and temporal sequencing of cognitive operations.

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Motivation

Motivation is the reason for people's actions, desires, and needs.

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Nature Reviews Neuroscience

Nature Reviews Neuroscience is a leading review journal with one of the highest impact factors covering neuroscience, in particular.

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Neo-Piagetian theories of cognitive development

Neo-Piagetian theories of cognitive development criticize and build upon Jean Piaget's theory of cognitive development.

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Personality

Personality is defined as the set of habitual behaviors, cognitions and emotional patterns that evolve from biological and environmental factors.

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Personality psychology

Personality psychology is a branch of psychology that studies personality and its variation among individuals.

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Personalized medicine

Personalized medicine, also termed precision medicine, is a medical procedure that separates patients into different groups—with medical decisions, practices, interventions and/or products being tailored to the individual patient based on their predicted response or risk of disease.

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Placebo

A placebo is a substance or treatment of no intended therapeutic value.

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Psychological research

Leon Festinger, Henry W. Riecken, & Stanley Schachter, When Prophecy Fails: A Social and Psychological Study of a Modern Group that Predicted the End of the World (University of Minnesota Press, 1956).

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Review of General Psychology

Review of General Psychology is the quarterly scientific journal of the American Psychological Association Division 1: The Society for General Psychology.

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Self-concept

One's self-concept (also called self-construction, self-identity, self-perspective or self-structure) is a collection of beliefs about oneself.

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Self-efficacy

Self-efficacy is an individual’s belief in his or her innate ability to achieve goals.

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Self-esteem

Self-esteem reflects an individual's overall subjective emotional evaluation of his or her own worth.

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Social psychology

Social psychology is the study of how people's thoughts, feelings, and behaviors are influenced by the actual, imagined, or implied presence of others.

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Stimulus (psychology)

In psychology, a stimulus is any object or event that elicits a sensory or behavioral response in an organism.

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Treatment and control groups

In the design of experiments, treatments are applied to experimental units in the treatment group(s).

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Value (ethics)

In ethics, value denotes the degree of importance of some thing or action, with the aim of determining what actions are best to do or what way is best to live (normative ethics), or to describe the significance of different actions.

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Yerkes–Dodson law

The Yerkes–Dodson law is an empirical relationship between arousal and performance, originally developed by psychologists Robert M. Yerkes and John Dillingham Dodson in 1908.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Differential_psychology

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