1, Introduction to General Psychology/Psychology:
This is an introductory subject of learning psychology, so some textbooks are also called basic psychology. The core part is individual psychological phenomena, including perception, consciousness and attention, memory, thinking, language, motivation, emotion and ability, and personality. Although there are some differences in the expression or editing logic of each version, these core contents are basically there. The general idea (introduction) of each textbook can be said to be the closest to the basic framework.
General Mind (Introduction) is also the only compulsory subject for psychology postgraduate entrance examination, and its importance is self-evident, which is reflected in the fact that some schools account for half of the total score, that is, 150 (such as the direction of applied psychology in Guangzhou University); 3 12 scored about 90 points in the unified examination.
2, developmental psychology:
Telling the different psychological characteristics of each stage of a person's life development track has a strong sense of substitution, so it is one of the two most grounded subjects in postgraduate entrance examination, especially the stages you have experienced, and you will find that you can find the figure of * * * in this subject.
The essence of developmental psychology is also a history, which tells the history of personal development. Therefore, the textbooks on the market are generally written according to two logics. One is to tell the psychological characteristics of people of different ages with the timeline as the main line; The other is in the form of special topics, such as human language development and human cognitive development.
3, social psychology:
People are individuals and people in society; People have not only natural attributes, but also social attributes. Social psychology is to study social psychological phenomena, so as to improve people's ability to know themselves. What we are interested in is the handling of various relationships, cognitive dissonance and so on, which are the research fields of social psychology. Like developmental psychology, social psychology is also an extremely grounded discipline.
4, educational psychology:
This subject mainly studies the basic laws and their interactions in the process of learning and teaching, including students' psychology, learning psychology, teaching psychology and teachers' psychology. Generally speaking, development and educational psychology are called a main direction of psychology, and they are highly related. After all, teaching students in accordance with their aptitude should at least understand the psychological characteristics of each age group and adjust the teaching process accordingly.