The present-day Department of Psychology at Florida State University is organized into five doctoral programs for graduate education in psychology that reflect the mainstream emphases in the field. The programs are in Clinical Psychology (the study of determinants of pathological behavior in children and adults with emphasis on biological, cognitive and environmental factors), Cognitive Psychology (the study of how humans process complex information received by the senses), Developmental Psychology (the study of physical, cognitive and social change throughout the life span), Neuroscience (the study of the biological bases of behavior), and Social Psychology (the study of how we think about, influence, and relate to one another). The department also offers an applied Master's Degree in Psychology with a Specialty in Applied Behavior Analysis at the Panama City Campus.
