the field primarily concerned with laboratory research on basic psychological processes, including perception, learning, memory, thinking, language, motivation, and emotion. (20)
is the branch of psychology that sets up experiments to see how individuals act in particular situations; deals with measuring and explaining human behaviour
Parapsychological research involving experimental methods rather than "survey" techniques or the investigation of "spontaneous cases" of anomalous phenomena.
Experimental psychology is an approach to psychology that treats it as one of the natural sciences, and therefore assumes that it is susceptible to the experimental method. Many experimental psychologists have gone further, and have assumed that all methods of investigation other than experimentation are suspect. In particular, experimental psychologists have been inclined to discount the case study and interview methods as they have been used in clinical and developmental psychology.