Basic Psychology of Southwest University is a national key discipline, and its leader is Professor Huang Xiting.
Southwest University's basic psychology has four stable research directions, with outstanding characteristics and obvious advantages, which are at the leading level in China, and some research results have reached or approached the international advanced level.
Research direction of time psychology
It started in 196 1 year, and is the research center of time psychology in China. There are many innovations in methods and theories, such as applying fuzzy statistical assignment, signal detection theory and multi-factor experiments to the study of time psychology, opening up a cross-cultural study of time metaphor, putting forward a segmented comprehensive model of time cognition and a three-component model of time representation, and discovering the personality characteristics of KaPPa effect in three aspects: age characteristics, segmentation of psychological time and time dimension. He presided over 3 projects of National Natural Science Foundation and published more than 50 research papers in this field. His achievements have been cited by many academic works and textbooks at home and abroad, and one of them has been fully translated by foreign academic journals. Twenty-eight papers were collected by PA and highly praised by peer experts. This direction is mainly engaged in research fields: time cognition, time management, time personality dimension research and so on. The main researchers in this field are Professor Huang Xiting, Professor Li Boyue and Associate Professor Zhang Zhijie.
Research direction of personality psychology
Started at 1982. There are many innovations in research methods and theories, such as applying fuzzy clustering analysis, fuzzy partial order relation matrix arrangement and multi-feature multi-method analysis to personality research. Firstly, the values are introduced into psychology textbooks, and the values of young people are divided into ten categories, and an empirical study is made on the values of young people in contemporary China. Created psychological research on self-reliance, self-confidence, self-esteem and self-improvement. This research direction has successively presided over L doctoral programs sponsored by the State Education Commission, 10 more than three national and provincial-level philosophical and social science research projects (its three key projects), published monographs 14, and published more than 40 papers 16, of which16 was included in PA, and 5 achievements were cited by quite a few domestic textbooks. He has published some influential academic works in China: Values and Education of Contemporary China Youth (won the first prize of the Ministry of Education), Personality Psychology, Psychology of College Students, Psychological Characteristics and Education of Contemporary College Students, and Personality Structure of China People. The main research fields are: China's personality theory and evaluation, sound personality cultivation education, ethnic psychology and education in western China, adolescent values and education. The main researchers in this field are Professor Li Hong, Associate Professor Zhao and Professor Chen Hong.
Research direction of cognitive psychology
Since 1986, he has presided over 3 national natural science foundation projects, 2 national social science foundation projects and more than 0 provincial and ministerial scientific research projects. He has published more than 30 papers in Journal of Psychology and Psychological Science, and more than 60 papers in other core journals/kloc-0. A series of researches have been made in causal reasoning, inductive reasoning, conditional reasoning, transitive reasoning, analogical reasoning, proportional reasoning and so on. The concept-driven theory of epiphany, the problem space theory of proposition semantic processing of conditional reasoning, the heuristic thinking strategy conversion theory of ability training and the multi-level bidirectional gestalt processing model of Chinese character recognition are put forward. Combined with the research of thinking strategy training, the experimental teaching material of thinking ability training in discipline field is developed, and the strategic knowledge transformation theory and six-stage thinking training mode of thinking ability training are put forward. This direction is mainly engaged in four aspects: thinking and creation, cognitive development research, aesthetic cognition research and Chinese character cognition research. The main researchers in this field are Liu Dianzhi, Li Hong, Zhao, Professor and Associate Professor.
Research direction of artificial intelligence and industrial psychology
It is a rapidly developing research direction of this subject in recent 10 years. He has undertaken two subprojects of the National 863 Program, two projects of the National Natural Science Foundation, a number of scientific and technological projects of the Ministry of Education and scientific and technological projects of Chongqing, and made in-depth research on automatic reasoning and neural network, organizational image design and corporate cultural psychology, and human factors in man-machine environment system. Published more than 40 papers 140 in subject-level journals, of which more than 20 papers were included by SCI, EI and ISTP, with high quality. The main research fields in this direction are: artificial intelligence and cognition, corporate culture psychology, human factors in man-machine environment system, etc. The main researchers in this field are Qiu, Qin, Zhu Ce and Professor Li Boyue. In the new century, all the members of the discipline of basic psychology in our school, headed by Professor Huang Xiting, are striving to build this discipline into a first-class psychology discipline in China, close to or reaching the international advanced level, and make more contributions to the development of psychology in China.
Second, development and educational psychology
The discipline of Development and Educational Psychology of Southwest University was approved as a key discipline in Chongqing in 2000, and was granted the right of doctoral degree on 200 1. Over the years, this discipline has conducted in-depth research on the basic theory and application of developmental and educational psychology, and formed three stable research directions: learning and psychology of creation, educational psychology and children's developmental psychology. It has built a leading school echelon in China and published a large number of high-level scientific research achievements. Up to now, members of the discipline group have published more than 200 papers and monographs 7 1 department in discipline-level and important core journals, and the research results of nearly 30 topics have won national, provincial and ministerial awards.
Learning and psychology of creation's research direction
This direction can keep up with the frontier of the discipline, and make systematic and in-depth research on creative thinking, Luo Ji reasoning, knowledge learning and thinking development, and obtain many important scientific research achievements: (1) In creative thinking, we mainly study the thinking strategies in the process of creative thinking, such as epiphany, hypothesis testing and analogy transfer, and discuss the development and training of creative thinking strategies. On this basis, the "source event activation theory of creative formation" is put forward, which creates a new perspective for in-depth study of the internal psychological mechanism of creative thinking. He published monographs such as Creative Research Manual and psychology of creation, and published nearly 20 high-level scientific research papers. (2) In the aspect of logical reasoning, it pays more attention to the effective learning of knowledge, the comprehensive research of thinking development and metacognition, especially the training research of thinking strategies and learning strategies, which has achieved certain results in theory and practice. Put forward the "strategic knowledge transformation theory" and "cognitive model of subject problem solving" to cultivate thinking ability, developed a series of teaching materials for thinking training (***30) and subject research learning (***4), and published theoretical monographs on metacognition and subjectivity education, efficient teaching and learning strategies. The main researchers in this field have successively presided over 7 projects of National Natural Science Foundation and National Social Science Foundation, 5 provincial and ministerial projects 14, won provincial and ministerial research awards14, and published more than 20 papers and 9 books 19 in the Journal of Psychology and other important journals. Its research results have been evaluated as "relatively advanced level" by domestic experts and have been well received internationally. This direction has also established close scientific cooperation with foreign countries. Professor Zhang Qinglin, an academic leader, went to the United States twice to study creative intelligence with R.J. Sternberg, a professor at Yale University and the current president of the American Psychological Association, and co-published a monograph. The main researchers in this field are Professor Zhang Qinglin, Professor Liu Dianzhi, Associate Professor Yang Dong, Associate Professor Xu Zhan, Dr. Cao Guikang and Dr. Shi Huiying.
Research direction of educational psychology
This direction has obvious advantages and characteristics in the research of teaching psychology, psychological quality education, adolescent psychological development and education, and has achieved some important research results: (1) The research of teaching psychology is at the leading level in China, which is embodied in the in-depth and systematic discussion of the theoretical system and discipline system of teaching psychology, the development trend of contemporary teaching psychology, and the research scope of teaching psychology. He published many influential papers and the first systematic monograph on teaching psychology in China, which was highly praised by domestic experts and won the first prize of the first philosophical and social science research after Chongqing was directly under the central government. Organize the compilation of teaching psychology series (*** 10); The research achievement "Research on Teaching Psychology" won the first prize of 65438-0998 national excellent experimental research on basic education reform in normal universities. (2) The theory and practice of psychological quality education are systematically studied, which is at the advanced level in China. He has undertaken more than 10 scientific research projects of the state and ministries, published nearly 100 papers in Xinhua Digest, Educational Research, Psychological Science, and published Children's Psychological Quality Training (volume * * * 10) and Psychological Quality Training in Primary and Secondary Schools (* * * 65438+). Taking college students' educational activities as "classics" and the development of consciousness and society as "latitude", a new theoretical system of college students' psychology was constructed, which was evaluated as "a successful attempt to localize psychology" by peer experts. The representative work "Psychological Development of College Students" won the second prize of Sichuan Provincial Government's outstanding scientific research achievements. The main researchers in this field have presided over national and provincial projects (including key topics) 16, published more than 100 papers in important journals such as Educational Research, published more than 40 books, compiled more than 50 textbooks, and obtained more than 20 provincial scientific research achievements. The main researchers in this field are Professor Zhang Dajun, Professor Chen Xu, Associate Professor Guo Cheng, Associate Professor Yu Lin, Associate Professor Feng Wei, Dr Wu Mingxia and Dr Liu Yanling.
Research direction of children's developmental psychology
This direction mainly makes a systematic and in-depth study on children's cognitive development, children's mental health and psychological counseling, and children's aesthetic psychological development. , and made some important scientific research achievements: (1) research on children's cognitive development, and presided over the national natural science foundation project "Children's thinking strategies for solving problems" and "Research on the early development of children's action logical reasoning ability". The origin, expression and development of children's advanced logical reasoning ability, children's successful thinking strategies, learning strategies and educational countermeasures are deeply discussed. These studies have direct guiding significance for kindergarten curriculum development and children's early intellectual development. (2) On the research of children's mental health and psychological counseling, the differences between children's normal psychology and abnormal psychology, the causes, manifestations and corrections of abnormal psychological phenomena are discussed. He presided over the major tender project of the Ministry of Education, Children's Mental Health and Psychological Counseling, and formed important achievements such as monographs, multimedia courseware, study and use guides. Relevant achievements have been published on the "Primary and Secondary School Teachers' Network" and won awards from the Ministry of Education. (3) On the research of children's aesthetic psychology development, he presided over the national social science fund project "Research on children's aesthetic psychology development and aesthetic education countermeasures", conducted a more in-depth study on the early development and education of children's aesthetic psychology, and published the first monograph on children's aesthetic psychology development and education in China. In recent years, researchers in this field have published more than 1 10 in academic journals such as Journal of Psychology and Educational Research, and published more than 10 works such as Research on Aesthetic Psychological Development of Children and Adolescents and Psychological Development of Children before the Age of Three, and presided over 65438+ national, provincial and ministerial scientific research projects. The "China-Canada Joint Child Psychological Research Center" jointly established by Professor Li Hong, the leader of this direction, and Canada will further promote the research in this direction to internationalization. The main researchers in this field are: Professor Li Hong, Professor Liu Yunyan, Dr. Chen, Dr. Gao and Dr. Hu.