Tags: Behavior vs. Psychology

Question

I recently updated the psychology tag wiki and realized it's really not dissimilar enough from behavior.

What is the difference between these two tags? How does one determine whether a question belongs in one tag vs. the other tag?

Is it that psychology is mental and behavior is physical? How does the question asker truly determine which is which?

Answer 1

I tend to use psychology for questions that are "Why is my pet X?".

I tend to use training (or variants like toilet-training) for questions that are "How do I change behavior X?"

I tend to use behavior for anything else.

Some examples that I consider "anything else":

• Do spayed cats still spray?
• Is it possible for a deaf kitten to sense growling/hissing from another cat?
• Is there a problem with feeding multiple cats from one dish?

In looking over the current useage, I can't see any consistency. However we choose for the tags to be used, the other tags should probably be mentioned in the tag wikis.

Answer 2

There are 70 questions tagged psychology

There are 394 questions tagged behavior

I propose we make psychology a synonym of behavior.