Experimental psychology

Experimental psychology refers to work done by those who apply experimental methods to psychological study and the underlying processes. Experimental psychologists employ human participants and animal subjects to study a great many topics, including (among others) sensation, perception, memory, cognition, learning, motivation, emotion; developmental processes, social psychology, and the neural substrates of all of these.[1]

  1. ^ Pashler, H. (Ed)(2002) Stevens' Handbook of Experimental Psychology; New York: Wiley