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'''Psychology''' is the [[science]] of [[behavior]] and [[mind]], including [[consciousness|conscious]] and [[Unconsciousness|unconscious]] phenomena, as well as [[feeling]] and [[thought]]. It is an [[academic discipline]] of immense scope and diverse interests that, when taken together, seek an understanding of the emergent properties of [[brain]]s, and all the variety of [[Epiphenomenon|epiphenomena]] they manifest. As a [[social science]] it aims to understand individuals and groups by establishing general principles and researching specific cases.<ref name="Fernald">Fernald LD (2008). [https://books.google.com/books?id=Q7p-J4-SWuQC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false ''Psychology: Six perspectives''] (pp. 12–15). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.</ref><ref name="Psychology">Hockenbury & Hockenbury. Psychology. Worth Publishers, 2010.</ref>

In this field, a professional [[Wikt:practitioner|practitioner]] or researcher is called a [[psychologist]] and can be classified as a [[Social science|social]], [[Behavioural sciences|behavioral]], or [[Cognitive science|cognitive scientist]]. Psychologists attempt to understand the role of [[mental function]]s in individual and [[social behavior]], while also exploring the [[Physiology|physiological]] and [[neurobiology|biological]] processes that underlie cognitive functions and behaviors.

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Psychologists explore behavior and mental processes, including [[perception]], [[cognition]], [[attention]], [[emotion]] ([[affect (psychology)|affect]]), [[intelligence]], [[phenomenology (psychology)|phenomenology]], [[motivation]] ([[conation]]), [[Human brain#Functions|brain functioning]], and [[personality psychology|personality]]. This extends to interaction between people, such as [[interpersonal relationship]]s, including [[psychological resilience]], [[family resilience]], and other areas. Psychologists of diverse orientations also consider the [[unconscious mind]].<ref name ="reference_name_A">Although [[psychoanalysis]] and other forms of [[depth psychology]] are most typically associated with the unconscious mind, [[behaviorist]]s consider such phenomena as [[classical conditioning]] and [[operant conditioning]], while [[cognitivism (psychology)|cognitivists]] explore [[implicit memory]], [[automaticity]], and [[subliminal message]]s, all of which are understood either to bypass or to occur outside of conscious effort or attention. Indeed, [[cognitive-behavioral therapist]]s counsel their clients to become aware of maladaptive thought patterns, the nature of which the clients previously had not been conscious.</ref> Psychologists employ [[empirical method]]s to infer [[causal]] and [[correlation and dependence|correlational]] relationships between psychosocial [[dependent and independent variables|variables]]. In [[eclecticism|addition]], or in [[antipositivism|opposition]], to employing [[empirical]] and [[Deductive-nomological model|deductive]] methods, some—especially [[Clinical psychology|clinical]] and [[counseling psychology|counseling]] psychologists—at times rely upon [[Hermeneutics#Psychology|symbolic interpretation]] and other [[inductive reasoning|inductive]] techniques. Psychology has been described as a "hub science" in that [[medicine]] tends to draw psychological research via [[neurology]] and [[psychiatry]], whereas social sciences most commonly draws directly from sub-disciplines within psychology.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.psychologicalscience.org/index.php/publications/observer/2007/september-07/psychology-is-a-hub-science.html |title=Psychology is a Hub Science|quote=psychology is a hub discipline — that is, a discipline in which scientific research is cited by scientists in many other fields. For instance, medicine draws from psychology most heavily through neurology and psychiatry, whereas the social sciences draw directly from most of the specialties within psychology.}} Association for Psychological Science ''Observer'' (September 2007)</ref>