| CSSC Code |
Title |
Alternate Titles |
Description |
| Main Category |
Sub-Category |
Course |
| 42 |
|
|
PSYCHOLOGY |
|
A summary of groups of instructional programs that describe the
behavior and experience of people. |
| |
01 |
|
PSYCHOLOGY, GENERAL |
|
A group of instructional programs that describe the behavior and
experience of people. |
| |
|
11 |
Psychology |
Behavioral Sciences, Introduction; Human Behavior |
introduction to behavior; personality; mental illness; intelligence;
sensation; culture |
| |
|
12 |
Psychology, Advanced |
|
in-depth study; learning; mental health; social psychology |
| |
|
13 |
Abnormal Psychology |
|
etiology of mental illness; criteria of abnormality; individual
and social causes of psychopathology; treatment and personal adjustment |
| |
|
14 |
AP Psychology |
|
|
| |
|
15 |
IB Psychology |
|
|
| |
|
00 |
Psychology, Other General |
|
|
| |
02 |
|
CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY |
|
A group of instructional programs that describe the application
of appropriate methods and theories selected from psychology and other
fields as they relate to dealing with the troubled person |
| |
|
00 |
Clinical Psychology, Other |
|
|
| |
03 |
|
COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY |
|
A group of instructional programs that describe the acquisition
and recall of new behaviors, and of the processes of learning new
activities, and of retaining them through time. |
| |
|
11 |
Psychology of Learning |
|
verbal/conceptual growth; conditioning; modeling; theories of learning |
| |
|
21 |
Educational Psychology |
|
theories of education and learning; learning techniques |
| |
|
00 |
Cognitive Psychology, Other |
|
|
| |
04 |
|
COMMUNITY PSYCHOLOGY. |
|
A group of instructional programs that describe the theory and practice
of using psychologists, and psychological facts in psychological work
not in the academic, school, and clinical contexts, but rather in
the broader social community, working with private and public organizations |
| |
|
00 |
Community Psychology, Other |
|
|
| |
05 |
|
COMPARATIVE PSYCHOLOGY |
|
A group of instructional programs that describe the behavior of
members of particular species, and the relationship of behaviors of
the species to their evolutionary origins |
| |
|
00 |
Comparative Psychology, Other |
|
|
| |
06 |
|
COUNSELING PSYCHOLOGY |
|
A group of instructional programs that describe the theory and practice
of systematically selecting the facts and theories of psychology with
the intent of advising people about their problems |
| |
|
00 |
Counseling Psychology, Other |
|
|
| |
07 |
|
DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY |
|
A group of instructional programs that describe progressive changes
in behavioral processes of individuals as a function of aging through
the life span, from conception to death |
| |
|
11 |
Child Psychology |
|
perceptual, cognitive, linguistic, social and personality development;
birth through childhood |
| |
|
21 |
Adolescent Psychology |
Adolescent Development |
maturation; psycho-physiological changes |
| |
|
31 |
Adjustment Psychology |
|
change and behavior; stress management; developmental adjustments |
| |
|
00 |
Developmental Psychology, Other |
|
|
| |
08 |
|
EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY |
|
A group of instructional programs that describe the general body
of methods, data, and laws that have been derived by scientific research,
including theoretical and systematic points of view applicable to
the prediction, control, and understanding of the behavior of individual
human organisms and other species |
| |
|
00 |
Experimental Psychology, Other |
|
|
| |
09 |
|
INDUSTRIAL AND ORGANIZATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY |
|
A group of instructional programs that describe the application
of psychological knowledge and methodology to specific work-related
problems in industry and government |
| |
|
00 |
Industrial and Organizational Psychology, Other |
|
|
| |
10 |
|
PERSONALITY PSYCHOLOGY |
|
A group of instructional programs that describe the unique organization
of the fairly permanent characteristics that set the individual apart
from other individuals and, at the same time, determine how other
respond to that person |
| |
|
11 |
Historical Personalities and Ideas |
|
great personalities; greatness characteristics; human potential;
psychohistory |
| |
|
21 |
Humanistic Psychology |
|
theories of personal growth; self-development; self-image and behavior |
| |
|
00 |
Personality Psychology, Other |
|
|
| |
11 |
|
PHYSIOLOGICAL PSYCHOLOGY. |
|
A group of instructional programs that describe the processes that
determine what actions will occur at a particular time, and the strength
or precision with which those actions will occur |
| |
|
00 |
Physiological Psychology, Other |
|
|
| |
12 |
|
PSYCHOLINGUISTICS |
|
A group of instructional programs that describe the psychology of
language, including the behavior processes that enter into the generation
of speech and writing, and the understanding of both spoken and written
languages |
| |
|
00 |
Psycholinguistics, Other |
|
|
| |
13 |
|
PSYCHOMETRICS |
|
A group of instructional programs that describe the mathematical
and statistical procedures used in psychological test construction
and validation, and of the general problems of the measurement of
behavior |
| |
|
00 |
Psychometrics, Other |
|
|
| |
14 |
|
PSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY |
|
A group of instructional programs that describe the changes in behavior
that occur as a function of drug-ingestion, and the psychological
processes associated with such changes, including altered states of
consciousness and addiction |
| |
|
11 |
Psychopharmacology |
|
drugs; neurophysiological aspects; pharmacochemical aspects; nervous
system; chemical foundations of behavior |
| |
|
00 |
Psychopharmacology, Other |
|
|
| |
15 |
|
QANTITATIVE PSYCHOLOGY |
|
A group of instructional programs that describe the application
of mathematical and statistical models and methodology in psychology |
| |
|
00 |
Quantitative Psychology, Other |
|
|
| |
16 |
|
SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY |
|
A group of instructional programs that describe the behavior of
the individual as a member of a group, and of the processes of associating
individuals together |
| |
|
11 |
Social Psychology |
|
study of the individual in a social context; interpersonal interaction |
| |
|
00 |
Social Psychology, Other |
|
|
| |
99 |
|
PSYCHOLOGY, OTHER |
|
A group of instructional programs in psychology not described above. |
| |
|
00 |
Psychology, Other |
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