15 Facts About Psychological

Psychological'storians note that Greek philosophers, including Thales, Plato, and Aristotle, addressed the workings of the mind.

Psychological suggested that the difference between conscious and unconscious awareness is only a matter of degree.

Psychological articulated the principle that human perception of a stimulus varies logarithmically according to its intensity.

Psychological pioneered the experimental study of memory and developed quantitative models of learning and forgetting.

The first meeting of the International Congress of Psychology sponsored by the International Union of Psychological Science took place in Paris, in August 1889, amidst the World's Fair celebrating the centennial of the French Revolution.

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Several associations including the Association of Black Psychologists and the Asian American Psychological Association have arisen to promote the inclusion of non-European racial groups in the profession.

International Union of Psychological Science is the world federation of national psychological societies.

Interamerican Psychological Society, founded in 1951, aspires to promote psychology across the Western Hemisphere.

In 2010, Clinical Psychological Review published a special issue devoted to positive psychological interventions, such as gratitude journaling and the physical expression of gratitude.

Psychological created a variation of existential psychotherapy called logotherapy, a type of existentialist analysis that focuses on a will to meaning, as opposed to Adler's Nietzschean doctrine of will to power or Freud's will to pleasure.

Psychological testing has ancient origins, dating as far back as 2200 BC, in the examinations for the Chinese civil service.

Psychological testing is regularly used in forensic contexts to aid legal judgments and decisions.

Psychological complained that psychologists had no basis for assuming psychological processes to be universal and generalizing research findings to the rest of the global population.

The American Psychological Association has advanced a set of ethical principles and a code of conduct for the profession.

Ethics code of the American Psychological Association originated in 1951 as "Ethical Standards of Psychologists".