What subjects are there in psychology?

Psychology is an interdisciplinary or marginal subject, which means that it has some connection with various majors, so it has both the nature of arts and sciences, the research direction of literature and rationality.

The main courses of psychology study include general psychology, psychohistory, developmental psychology, educational psychology, social psychology, psychometrics, psychological statistics, experimental psychology, cognitive psychology, personality psychology, physiological psychology, abnormal psychology and so on.

Psychometrics, psychostatistics, experimental psychology, cognitive psychology and physiological psychology all belong to partial science, involving mathematics, brain science and medicine.

The number of requirements for science mainly depends on which part you study. If you are consulting or social psychology, basically you will study liberal arts, but if you are studying econometric psychology and cognitive neuroscience, you should have some basic skills in science. At least mathematics is a compulsory course for psychology undergraduates, generally calculus. If you want to master the relevant contents of econometric psychology, you must also master probability theory and linear algebra.

Generally, non-psychology majors have a shallow understanding of psychology, thinking that it is consultation or mind-reading fortune-telling. In fact, this is a big misunderstanding, just consult. The so-called mind-reading contains too many personal experiences, and there are few scientific empirical studies, so its scientific nature needs to be verified. The psychology major here does not include mind reading, on the contrary, it is packaged as authentic psychology by many pseudo-psychology.