University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Libraries
Collection Policy Manual, rev. ed
2003

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SUBJECT COLLECTIONS

PSYCHOLOGY


Academic Program
 

Undergraduate major and minor, M.S., and Ph.D. Clinical and general experimental psychology with emphasis on physiological psychology; conditioning and learning; cognition and perception; and social and life-span or developmental psychology, are the main focus of teaching and research. Personality theory; learning and motivation theories; child psychology; conflict resolution; psychology of women; psychology of aging; gay and lesbian psychology; neurochemistry and neuropsychology; biological psychology; health psychology; cognitive processes; auditory perception; perceptual learning; information processing; language and reading; the history of psychology; systems of psychotherapy; statistics; and methodology, are taught.

Collection Level
 

Research.

Collection Profile

        The following LC classification range descriptions represent areas of concentration for psychology:

         BF (Psychology): General (Methodology); Relation to other fields (mainly philosophy, religion); Practice of psychology. Vocational guidance; Research. Communication; Study and teaching. Certification; History; Mind and body; Tests and testing; Experimental psychology; Behaviorism; Cognitive psychology; Gestalt, humanistic, existential psychology; Sensation (Vision; Hearing; Other senses. Movement); Cognition. Consciousness (Habit. Adjustment; Environmental psychology; Memory; Creativity. Imagination; Intelligence; Thinking. Problem-solving. Information processing; Psycholinguistics. Psychology of learning); Motivation; Affection. Emotion. Bereavement. Love; Will. Choice. Control; Applied psychology; Comparative psychology. Animal and human; Instinct; Sexuality and gender; Self. Personality; Genetic psychology; Psychology by class or occupation; Psychology of belief, faith, influence, values; Miscellaneous topics (e.g., death, smoking, suffering, water, etc.); Temperament. Character; Parapsychology. Occult (Sleep. Dreams). Selectively collected categories: Biography. Studies of individual psychologists; General (many texts class here); Psychoanalysis; Discursive psychology; Functionalism; Psychotropic drugs. Behavior control; New thought. Menticulture; Psychology of nations; Physiognomy; Parapsychology. Occult (Hypnotism).
        GV (Recreation. Leisure): Sport psychology.
        HF (Commerce): Office management (Industrial psychology. Job stress).
        HQ (Family. Marriage. Women): The Family. Marriage (Children. Child development; Child life).
        QP (Physiology): The following category is selectively collected: Neuropsychology.
        RC (Internal Medicine): Neurosciences (Psychiatry. Therapeutics. Psychotherapy; Psychoanalysis and psychopathology; Schizophrenia; Psychopathology. Psychoses; Psychopathology; Depression; Sleep Disturbances; Other Neuroses (e.g., eating disorders); Personality disorders. Behavior problems; Mental retardation; Down's syndrome). Selectively collected categories: Neurosciences (General neuroscience; General neurological disease; Epilepsy; Other diseases of the central nervous system; Multiple sclerosis; Other diseases of the central nervous system; Parkinson's disease; Diseases of the brain; Brain damage; Headache. Migraine; Diseases of the spinal cord; Diseases of the autonomic nervous system; Psychiatry; Special aspects of mental illness; Hypnotism and hypnosis.
        RJ (Pediatrics): Mental disorders. Child psychiatry. Therapy.

Languages
 

English and, very selectively, other European languages.

Other Considerations
 

For counseling psychology and educational psychology, see Education.

Related Subject Collections
 
Anthropology, Education, Health Sciences, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Studies, Nursing, Peace Studies, and Sociology.

Related Library Units
 

Multimedia Library, Music Library.


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