Human Behaviour and Experience

The outlines in the six sections of Division III set forth the discoveries and theories in the psychological sciences concerning human capacities, human behaviour, and human experience.

Section 431 is concerned with the questions of the definition and origins of human behaviour and experience. It also indicates the stages in the development of a person's behaviour and experience.

The outline in Section 432 deals with the capacities by which humans receive, organize, and interpret information about the current environment that influences behaviour. It treats the following subjects: attention; sensation; perception; the perception of time, of space, and of movement; perceptual illusions and hallucinations; and parapsychological phenomena.

Section 433 is concerned with current internal states that affect behaviour and conscious experience.

It treats the determinants and manifestations of activation level; motivational states; emotional states; and transient states affecting behaviour and experience, such as sleep, dreams, hypnosis, fatigue, and intoxication.

Section 434 is concerned with persisting capacities that influence human behaviour and conscious experience. The outline treats the nature and assessment of human abilities and attitudes; sensorimotor abilities; intellectual abilities; and the distribution of intelligence.

Section 435 is concerned with the development of a person's potentials by learning and thinking. The outline treats diverse general theories of learning; deals separately with psychomotor, perceptual, and conceptual learning; and then treats memory and forgetting and the theories about and the types of the higher thought processes.

The outline in Section 436 sets forth those parts of psychology, psychopathology, and psychotherapy that consider the functioning, the integration, and the disintegration of the person as a whole. It treats diverse definitions and theories of personality and the self; theories of personality adjustment and maladjustment; and the kinds of mental disorders and their psychiatric treatment.