Psychology Subject Guide
Call Numbers and Subject Headings
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If you wish to browse the General Stacks of Waldo or the Education Library for books related to psychology, there are several potential locations. For example, the subject of Behavior Therapy is found under RC489. B4, and Behavior Modification (Education) is found under LB1060.2 In general, however, psychology materials are found in the BF classification.
Philosophy is found from B1 through BD701 and has close ties to the field of Psychology in its discussions of history and systems, logic, and speculative philosophy (metaphysics, epistemology, ontology, and cosmology)
BF 1-940 Psychology
For ethnic psychology, see GN
For social psychology, see HM
BF 173-175 Psychoanalysis
BF 180-210 Experimental psychology
BF 231-299 Sensation. Aesthesiology
BF 309-499 Cognition. Perception. Intuition
BF 501-504.3 Motivation
BF 511-593 Emotion
BF 608-635 Will. Choice
BF 636-637 Applied psychology
BF 660-685 Comparative psychology
BF 698-698.9 Personality
BF 699-711 Genetic psychology-- Including psychology of mental development or evolution in the individual or in the race
BF 712-725.85 Developmental psychology
BF 721-223 Child psychology
BF 795-839.5 Temperament. Character
BF 840-861 Physiognomy
BF 866-885 Graphology
BF 889-905 The hand. Palmistry
BF 1001-1389 Parapsychology-- Including hallucinations, sleep, dreams, hypnotism, telepathy, spiritualism, mediumship, clairvoyance, telekinesis
BF 1404-1999 Occult sciences-- Including ghosts, demonology, witchcraft, astrology, oracles, fortune-telling. (Religion and religions are found under BL, BM, BP, BQ, BR, BS, BT, BV, and BX, and also have close ties to Psychology)
RC 31-1245 Internal medicine. The Practice of medicine including RC321-571 that covers Neurology and psychiatry
Z 7201 Bibliography
The official subject headings for psychology also cross many areas, and can be subdivisions of other headings. Use of the Library of Congress Subject Headings, a 5 volume set of official terms found at the Reference Desks is recommended, although the Advanced Search, a WestCat option, can be used to locate official headings. Use your own keywords to search, then when you find an appropriate book entry, check out the official subject headings listed for each book or other resource. The subject heading can then be linked to all of the resources that use that heading. The official printed set of LC subject headings also gives related terms, the terms that the official term is "used for," and phrases involving the headings.
A few of the common subject headings are noted below, but you need to use the Library of Congress volumes to note the wide range of possible headings and to select appropriate headings. For example, a common subject heading in psychology is Behavior Therapy. If you enter this, after changing the drop down menu in WestCat to a subject search, the response will be that Waldo Library owns nearly 400 books classified under the subject heading of Behavior Therapy. If you do not use an approved subject heading, e.g., industrial psychology, and search the same way, you will not find appropriate books under that heading in WestCat. There will be a see reference to Psychology, Industrial with an eventual list of several hundred books and other resources on industrial psychology.
Example 1: Broader Term: Psychology (even Broader Term: Human biology; Philosophy, Soul) Examples of narrower terms: Adolescent Psychology, Attention, Behavior genetics, Behaviorism (Psychology), Cognition, Control (Psychology), Feminist psychology, Human behavior, Interbehavioral psychology, Memory, Operant behavior, Psychoanalysis, Sex discrimination in psychology, Stimulus compounding, Transpersonal psychology. Subdivisions of psychology, e.g., Bibliography, History, Computer simulation, Methodology, Study and teaching, are given, as well as other official subjects, e.g., Psychology, Applied; Psychology, Industrial; Psychology and literature, Psychology in literature, Psychology teachers.
Example 2: Broader Term: Behavior Modification (even Broader Term: Behavioralism (Psychology); Conditioned Response; Human Behavior; Psychology, Applied. Examples of narrower terms: Behavior therapy, Brainwashing, Habit breaking, Learning disabled youth--Behavior modification, Token economy (Psychology)