United States Department Of Psychology, Universities Distribution Of Subjects And Advantages Of Research Areas

Research actuality and up to date study in American psychology basically represent development foreland of world psychology. The main purpose of this research is to summary and describe discipline distributing and dominant study of psychology in twenty American universities, which will makes students and researcher majoring in psychology know about research actuality of American psychology, and at the base of which refer and follow their researchs.Relational summary information about American psychology is referred by the way of literature; discipline system adopts three-class system mostly according to speciality code and discipline code (China standard) and American psychology system; selection of university mostly accords to psychology speciality evaluation of《American News and World Report》; a weight mean model is constructed so as to evaluate studied department of psychology in the universities; by the way of internet, psychology discipline distributing and up to date psychology study is knowed about and described.Through above methods and processes describes discipline distributing and research institution & laboratory of psychology in twenty universities . 235 research institutions & laboratories are showed. Elementary analysis about discipline distributing shows that in 235 research institutions & laboratories , which contains 122 elementary psychology , 53 development and education psychology and 60 applying psychology, and their percentage respectively are 51.9%,22.6%,25.5% . Though discipline distributing in American university psychology respectively regards certain aspect, four disciplines are comprised of such as cognitive psychology, development psychology, social psychology , industrial and organizational psychology. Through browsing large numbers of literatures and universities psychology website, describe dominant study and up-to-date study , which embody project topic, director, research actuality, research means and so on detailedly.At the base of summaring and analyzing discipline distributing and dominant study, discusses research trend of American psychology branch , development trait of psychology and general trend , and believe : cognitive psychology trends to coupling; personality psychology trends to system and conformity; life-span development research is attached more importance in development psychology ; theory system of industrial and organization psychology has been more and more scientific and comprehensive. Along with polarization trend, psychology studies adopt diverse viewpoints and techniques most often. Psychology will develop most rapidly on the basis cross-disciplinary study.