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Criteria for Selecting Samples of APA Membership
for Research Purposes: Areas of Interest

 

Please use the areas of interest listed on this page, as well as the codes for major fields when selecting the criteria to describe your target population.


A

Accident Prevention/Safety 120104   Applied Behavior Analysis 206000
Administration 228000   Artificial Intelligence 010702
Adolescent Development 040300   Assessment/Diagnosis/
     &Evaluation
232000
Adolescent Therapy 070107   Attention Deficit Disorders 070210
Adult Development 229000   Attitudes & Opinions 060400
Affective Disorders 231000   Attribution Theory 060404
Aggression 060104   Audition 020201
Alcoholism & Alcohol Abuse 070601   Autism 070207
Alzheimer's Disease 072401      
         
B

Behavior Genetics 031100   Brain Damage 070701
Behavior Therapy 233000   Brain Functions 030201
Biofeedback 070116      
         
C

Cardiovascular Processes 030800   Communication 060300
Case Management 081000   Communications/Journalism 561000
Central Nervous System 030104   Community Mental Health 080100
Chemical Senses 020202   Community Psychology 080000
Child Abuse 040210   Comparative Psychology 211000
Child Development 501000   Computer Applications
     & Programming
010700
Child & Pediatric Psychology 234000   Conditioning, Operant & Classical 239000
Child Therapy 070206   Conduct Disorders 070211
Chronically Mentally Ill 070613   Consulting Psychology 217000
Classical Conditioning 235000   Consumer Psychology 140000
Client-Centered Therapy 070128   Continuing Education 111200
Clinical Child Psychology 521000   Correctional Psychology 210000
Clinical Child Neuropsychology 236000   Counseling Psychology 090000
Clinical Neuropsychology 260000   Creativity 050300
Clinical Psychology 070000   Crime and Criminal Behavior 240000
Clinical Research 237000   Crisis Intervention & Therapy 080102
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy 070129   Cross Cultural Processes 061304
Cognitive Development 238000   Cultural & Social Processes 061300
Cognitive Psychology 213000   Curriculum Development/Evaluation 110600
         
D

Death & Dying 071800   Deviant Behavior 061800
Decision & Choice Behavior 020900   Disadvantaged 242000
Depression 070615   Domestic Violence 080800
Developmental Psychobiology 241000   Drug Abuse 070603
Developmental Psychology 040000      
         
E

Eating Disorders 070611   Endocrine Systems 244000
Educational Psychology 110000   Engineering Psychology 120000
Educational Research 110900   Environmental Psychology 212000
Educational Technology 111000   Ethology 245000
Electrophysical Psychology 031500   Epidemiology & Biometry 080602
Emotion 243000   Ethnic Minorities 246000
Emotional Development 040205   Experimental Analysis
     of Behavior
020300
Employee Assistance Programs 130600   Experimental Psychology 020000
         
F

Family Processes 247000   Feminist Therapy 070118
Family Therapy 070203   Forensic Psychology 220000
         
G

Gender Issues 204000   Giftedness 248000
General Psychology 222000   Group Processes 249000
Gerontology/Geropsychology 115000   Group Psychotherapy 070103
         
H

Health Psychology 216000   Human Development &
     Family Studies
226000
History & Systems
      of Psychology
010100   Human Ecology 061100
HIV/ AIDS 251000   Human Factors 120301
Homelessness &
      Homeless Populations
252000   Human Relations 681000
Homicide 253000   Human Resources 011001
Hormones & Behavior 030703   Humanistic Psychology 230000
Hospital Care 071400   Hypnosis/Hypnotherapy 070126
       
I

Individual Differences 050500   Ingestive Behavior &
      Nutrition
256000
Individual Psychotherapy 254000   Institutionalization/
      Deinstitutionalization
257000
Industrial/ Organizational
      Psychology
130000   Instructional Methods 258000
Infancy 040100   Intelligence 259000
Information Processing 020801   Interpersonal Processes &
      Relations
261000
         
L

         
Labor & Management
      Relations
130202   Learning Disabilities 070208
Language Development 263000   Learning/ Learning Theory 020100
Language Processes 264000   Lesbian & Gay Issues 072000
Leadership 060205      
         
M

Managed Care 265000   Mental Health Economics &
      Financing
080601
Management & Organization 130200   Mental Health Systems 269000
Market Analysis 140500   Mentally Retarded 070800
Marriage & Family 266000   Metacognition 271000
Mass Media Communication 060301   Military Psychology 255000
Measurement 267000   Moral Development 041200
Medical Psychology 071100   Motivation 272000
Memory 020700   Motor Performance 021100
Mental Disorders 268000      
         
N

Neurological Disorders 070700   Neuroscience 118000
Neurophysiology 030102   Neuroses 273000
Neuropsychology 682000   Nonverbal Communication 274000
         
O

Operations Research 010900   Organizational Development 130206
         
P

Pain & Pain Management 071101   Professional Issues in
      Psychology
011000
Parent- Child Interaction 276000   Program Evaluation 337000
Parent Education 070209   Projective Techniques 050602
Pastoral Psychology 275000   Psychoanalysis 338000
Performance Evaluation 277000   Psychobiology 340000
Personality 040207   Psychodrama 070120
Personality & Experimental
      Psychopathology
020301   Psychoimmunology 031700
Personality Disorders 278000   Psycholinguistics 355000
Personality Measurement 050600   Psychology & Law 223000
Personality Psychology 050000   Psychology & the Arts 061200
Personality Theory 050100   Psychology of Women 348000
Philosophy of Science 011400   Psychometrics 362000
Physically Handicapped 071700   Psychopathology 363000
Physiological Psychology 030000   Psychopharmacology 365000
Policy Analysis 279000   Psychophysiology 282000
Political Psychology 310000   Psychoses 070607
Preschool & Day Care Issues 110500   Psychosomatic Disorders 071000
Prevention 080900   Psychotherapy 380000
Problem Solving 281000      
         
Q

Quantitative/ Mathematical, Psychometrics/ Statistics 250000  
         
R

Rational-Emotive Therapy 070121   Research Design &
      Methodology
011300
Rehabilitation 390000   Research & Training 284000
Religious Psychology 283000      
         
S

Schizophrenia 070608   Social Cognition 061900
School Counseling 100100   Social Development 287000
School Psychology 100000   Social Learning 050800
Selection & Placement 286000   Social Problems 288000
Sensory & Perceptual
      Processes
020200   Social Psychology 060000
Sensory Motor Processes 020207   Social Skills 289000
Sensory Physiology 030200   Special Education 955000
Sex/Marital Therapy 070123   Speech Disorders 070900
Sexual Behavior 061000   Sports Psychology 221000
Sexual Physiology/ Behavior 031400   Statistics 880000
Sexual Dysfunction 070604   Stress 070614
Sleep & Dreams 022000   Structured Outpatient Services 294000
Sleep Disorders 070612   Suicide 070609
Smoking 060900   Survey Theory & Methodology 010303
Social Behavior 040208   Systems Analysis 010701
Social Change 061306   Systems, Methods & Issues 010000
         
T

Thought Processes 020800   Training & Development 291000
         
V

         
Values & Moral Behavior 060600   Vision 020204
Verbal Behavior 020107   Vocational Psychology 292000
Verbal Learning 020106      
         
W

Work Performance 293000      

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Last Updated: April 2000




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