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Behavioral Sciences

Categorical breakdown of terms falling inder the category of Behavioral Sciences. Sub categories will become more specific in nature to the terms listed for Behavioral Sciences.

Sub-Categories

Terms

Adolescent Psychiatry - The medical science that deals with the origin, diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of mental disor...

Adolescent Psychology - Field of psychology concerned with the normal and abnormal behavior of adolescents. It includes ment...

Anthropology - The science devoted to the comparative study of man....

Behavioral Medicine - The interdisciplinary field concerned with the development and integration of behavioral and biomedi...

Behavioral Research - Research that involves the application of the behavioral and social sciences to the study of the act...

Behavioral Sciences - Disciplines concerned with the study of human and animal behavior....

Biological Psychiatry - An interdisciplinary science concerned with studies of the biological bases of behavior - biochemica...

Child Psychiatry - The medical science that deals with the origin, diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of mental disor...

Child Psychology - The study of normal and abnormal behavior of children....

Cognitive Science - The study of the precise nature of different mental tasks and the operations of the brain that enabl...

Commitment of Mentally Ill - Legal process required for the institutionalization of a patient with severe mental problems....

Community Psychiatry - Branch of psychiatry concerned with the provision and delivery of a coordinated program of mental he...

Confidentiality - The privacy of information and its protection against unauthorized disclosure....

Duty to Warn - A health professional's obligation to breach patient CONFIDENTIALITY to warn third parties of the da...

Ethnopsychology - Comparative psychology of races and peoples....

Ethology - The discipline pertaining to the study of animal behavior....

Forensic Psychiatry - Psychiatry in its legal aspects. This includes criminology, penology, commitment of mentally ill, th...

Genetic Determinism - The theory that human CHARACTER and BEHAVIOR are shaped by the GENES that comprise the individual's ...

Genetics, Behavioral - The experimental study of the relationship between the genotype of an organism and its behavior. The...

Geriatric Psychiatry - A subspecialty of psychiatry concerned with the mental health of the aged....

Insanity Defense - A legal concept that an accused is not criminally responsible if, at the time of committing the act,...

Military Psychiatry - Branch of psychiatry concerned with problems related to the prevention, diagnosis, etiology, and tre...

Neurolinguistic Programming - A set of models of how communication impacts and is impacted by subjective experience. Techniques ar...

Neuropsychology - A branch of psychology which investigates the correlation between experience or behavior and the bas...

Orthopsychiatry - The study and treatment of human behavior problems utilizing principles derived from the behavioral,...

Parapsychology - Branch of psychology that deals with paranormal behavior and events such as telepathy, precognition,...

Preventive Psychiatry - A discipline concerned with the prevention of mental illness and the promotion of mental health....

Psychiatry - The medical science that deals with the origin, diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of mental disor...

Psychoacoustics - The science pertaining to the interrelationship of psychologic phenomena and the individual's respon...

Psychoanalysis - The separation or resolution of the psyche into its constituent elements. The term has two separate ...

Psycholinguistics - A discipline concerned with relations between messages and the characteristics of individuals who se...

Psychology - The science dealing with the study of mental processes and behavior in man and animals....

Psychology, Clinical - The branch of psychology concerned with psychological methods of recognizing and treating behavior d...

Psychology, Comparative - The branch of psychology concerned with similarities or differences in the behavior of different ani...

Psychology, Educational - The branch of psychology concerned with psychological aspects of teaching and the formal learning pr...

Psychology, Experimental - The branch of psychology which seeks to learn more about the fundamental causes of behavior by study...

Psychology, Industrial - The branch of applied psychology concerned with the application of psychologic principles and method...

Psychology, Medical - A branch of psychology in which there is collaboration between psychologists and physicians in the m...

Psychology, Social - The branch of psychology concerned with the effects of group membership upon the behavior, attitudes...

Psychoneuroimmunology - The field concerned with the interrelationship between the brain, behavior and the immune system. Ne...

Psychopathology - The study of significant causes and processes in the development of mental illness....

Psychopharmacology - The study of the effects of drugs on mental and behavioral activity....

Psychophysics - The science dealing with the correlation of the physical characteristics of a stimulus, e.g., freque...

Psychophysiology - The study of the physiological basis of human and animal behavior....

Psychosomatic Medicine - A system of medicine which aims at discovering the exact nature of the relationship between the emot...

Sex Counseling - Advice and support given to individuals to help them understand and resolve their sexual adjustment ...

Sex Education - Education which increases the knowledge of the functional, structural, and behavioral aspects of hum...

Sexology - This discipline concerns the study of SEXUALITY, and the application of sexual knowledge such as sex...

Signal Detection, Psychological - Psychophysical technique that permits the estimation of the bias of the observer as well as detectab...

Social Sciences - Disciplines concerned with the interrelationships of individuals in a social environment including s...

Sociobiology - The comparative study of social organization in animals including humans, especially with regard to ...

Sociology - A social science dealing with group relationships, patterns of collective behavior, and social organ...

Sociology, Medical - The study of the social determinants and social effects of health and disease, and of the social str...

Time Management - Planning and control of time to improve efficiency and effectiveness....