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This two-volume, accessible resource covers the entire spectrum of psychology, including: notable people, theories and terms; landmark case studies and experiments; primary source materials; applications of psychology in advertising, medicine and sports; and career information. Each article ranges from 25 to 1,500 words, covering the topics researchers want to know about, including: Gaslighting, Psychosocial isolation, Posttraumatic stress disorder (PSTD), and Social distancing. In addition to that there are more than 275 photographs, charts and graphs, students will also find Key Terms and Further reading sections, as well as an expanded glossary, an updated organizations appendix and an in-depth two-level index.

Gale Encyclopedia of Psychology

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GALE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF PSYCHOLOGY 4 2V

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Aaron T. Beck.
Ability.
Abnormal psychology.
Abortion.
Abraham Maslow.
Absolute threshold.
Acculturation.
Achievement tests.
Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS).
Action potential.
Adaptation.
Addiction/addictive personality.
Adjustment disorders.
Adolescence.
Adolescent depression.
Adolf Meyer.
Adoption.
Adrenochrome.
Advertising psychology.
Affect.
Affiliation.
Aggression.
Aging.
Albert Bandura.
Albert Ellis.
Alcohol dependence and abuse.
Aleksandr Romanovich Luria.
Alfred Adler.
Alfred Binet.
Alfred Charles Kinsey.
Alice Miller.
Alienation.
Altruism.
Alzheimer's disease.
American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.
American Psychiatric Association.
American Psychological Association.
Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA).
Ames room.
Amnesia.
Anger.
Animal experimentation.
Anna Freud.
Anne Anastasi.
Anorexia.
Antianxiety drugs.
Antidepressant drugs.
Antipsychotic drugs.
Antisocial behavior.
Antisocial personality disorder.
Anxiety and anxiety disorders.
Apgar score.
Aphasia.
Applied behavior analysis.
Applied psychology.
Approach versus avoidance.
Archetype.
Arnold Allan Lazarus.
Arnold Gesell.
Art therapy.
Arthur Otis.
Arthur R. Jensen.
Artificial intelligence.
ASMR.
Asperger syndrome.
Assessment, psychological.
Assimilation.
Association for Psychological Science (APS).
Associationism.
Attachment.
Attention.
Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).
Attitude and behavior.
Attitudes and attitude change.
Attraction, interpersonal.
Attribution theory.
Authoritarian personality.
Autism spectrum disorder (ASD).
Autoeroticism.
Autonomic nervous system.
Aversive conditioning.
Avoidance learning.
B. F. Skinner.
Barbel Inhelder.
Battered child syndrome.
Bayley scales of infant and toddler development.
Behavior modification.
Behavior therapy.
Behaviorism.
Bender-Gestalt test.
Benjamin Rush.
Benjamin Spock.
Bilateral cingulotomy.
Bilingualism and bilingual education.
Binocular depth cues.
Biofeedback.
Bipolar disorder.
Birth.
Birth order.
Birth trauma.
Bisexuality.
Blue-eyes/brown-eyes studies on racism.
Body dysmorphic disorder (BDD).
Body image.
Bonding.
Borderline personality disorder.
Boredom.
Brain.
Brain disorders.
Brain injuries.
Brainwashing.
Brief reactive psychosis.
Bruno Bettelheim.
Bulimia.
Bullies.
Bystander effect.
Caffeine-related disorders.
Cannabis-related disorders.
Career counseling.
Carl Jung.
Carl Rogers.
Carl Wernicke.
Carol Gilligan.
Case study methodologies.
Catharsis.
Cathexis.
Causation.
Central nervous system.
Central tendency measures.
Character.
Charles Edward Spearman.
Charles Robert Darwin.
Child abuse.
Child development.
Child psychology.
Childhood.
Chi-square test.
Christiana Drummond Morgan.
Christine Ladd-Franklin.
Circadian rhythms.
Clark Leonard Hull.
Classical conditioning.
Client-centered therapy.
Clifford Beers.
Clinical psychology.
Cliques.
Codependence.
Cognition.
Cognitive behavioral therapy.
Cognitive development.
Cognitive dissonance.
Cognitive psychology.
Cognitive therapy.
Cognitivism.
Color vision.
Coma.
Combat neurosis.
Communication skills and disorders.
Comparative psychology.
Competence to stand trial.
Competition.
Compulsions.
Computer simulation (modeling).
Concept formation.
Conditioned response.
Conditioned stimulus.
Conditioning.
Conduct disorder.
Confidence intervals.
Confidentiality and legal privilege.
Conflict resolution.
Conformity.
Conscience.
Conscious and unconscious motivations.
Consciousness.
Constructivism.
Consumer psychology.
Contrast.
Control group.
Convergent thinking.
Conversion reaction.
Coping behavior.
Correctional psychology.
Correlational method.
Counseling psychology.
Counterconditioning.
Covert sensitization.
Creativity.
Creativity tests.
Criminal profiling.
Crisis intervention.
Critical period.
Crocodile Man.
Cross-cultural psychology.
Cross-sectional study.
Cults.
Cultural-historical psychology.
Culture-fair test.
Daryl Bem.
Data Mining.
David Elkind.
David Hume.
David Reimer.
David Shakow.
David Wechsler.
Daydreaming.
Deductive reasoning.
Deep brain stimulation.
Defense mechanisms.
Delay of gratification.
Delayed response.
Delirium.
Delusion and delusional disorders.
Dementia.
Dendrites.
Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA).
Dependent personality disorder.
Dependent variable.
Depression.
Depth perception.
Descriptive psychology.
Desensitization.
Determinism.
Developmental delay.
Developmental stages, theories of.
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5).
Dialectical behavior therapy.
Differential psychology.
Direct observation tests.
Disability.
Dissociation and dissociative disorders.
Dissociative identity disorder.
Divergent thinking.
Divorce.
Donald O. Hebb.
Down syndrome.
Draw-a-Person test.
Dreams.
Drive reduction.
Drug therapy.
Dysfunctional family.
Dyslexia.
Eating disorders.
Echolalia.
Ecological Systems Theory.
Educational psychology.
Edward Chace Tolman.
Edward F. Zigler.
Edward Thorndike.
Edwin Ray Guthrie.
Effector.
Ego.
Eleanor Emmons Maccoby.
Eleanor J. Gibson.
Elective mutism.
Electrical stimulation of the brain.
Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT).
Electroencephalograph (EEG).
Emil Kraepelin.
Emotion.
Emotional development.
Emotional intelligence.
Empathy.
Empiricism.
Encounter group.
Enculturation.
Endocrine glands.
Environment.
Environmental psychology.
Epigenesis.
Equilibrium sense.
Erich Seligman Fromm.
Erik Erikson.
Ernest R. Hilgard.
Ethel Dench Puffer Howes.
Ethical treatment of animals.
Ethnocentrism.
Ethology.
Etiology.
Eugenics.
Evelyn Hooker.
Evolutionary psychology (EP).
Exhibitionism.
Existential psychology.
Experimental design.
Experimental group.
Experimental psychology.
Expert testimony.
Extinction.
Extrasensory Perception.
Extroversion.
Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR).
Facial recognition.
Factor Analysis.
False memory syndrome.
Familial retardation.
Family.
Family size.
Family therapy.
Fantasy.
Fear.
Feral children.
Fetal alcohol effect (FAE) and syndrome (FAS).
Fight/flight reaction.
Figure-ground perception.
File Drawer Phenomenon.
Fine motor skills.
Fixation.
Food addiction.
Forensic psychology.
Forgetting curve.
Franz Anton Mesmer.
Frederick S. Perls.
Free association.
Free-recall learning.
Frequency (auditory).
Frequency distribution.
Freud's Dora.
Freud's Little Hans.
Freud's Rat Man.
Freud's Wolfman.
Friendship.
Fritz Heider.
Fugue.
Functional disorder.
Functional fixedness.
Functionalism.
Galen.
Gangs.
Gaslighting.
Gender bias.
Gender constancy.
Gender dysphoria disorder.
Gender identity.
General adaptation syndrome.
Genie, the Feral Child.
Genius.
George Alexander Kelly.
Geriatric psychology.
Gestalt principles of organization.
Gestalt psychology.
Gestalt therapy.
Giftedness.
Goal-setting theory.
Gordon Willard Allport.
Granville Stanley Hall.
Grief.
Gross motor skills.
Group dynamics.
Group therapy.
Guilt.
Gustav Theodor Fechner.
H.M.--the man with no memory.
Habituation.
Halfway house.
Hallucinations.
Hallucinogens.
Halo effect.
Handedness.
Hand-eye coordination.
Hans Jurgen Eysenck.
Harry F. Harlow.
Harry Harlow's wire mother studies.
Harry Stack Sullivan.
Harvard Grant Study.
Health psychology.
Hearing.
Henry Alexander Murray Jr..
Heredity.
Hermann Ebbinghaus.
Hermann von Helmholtz.
Hervey Cleckley studies of psychopathy.
Herzberg's two-factor theory.
Heterosexuality.
Heuristics.
High intelligence.
High-risk participant studies.
Histrionic personality disorder.
Hoarding.
Holly Ramona False Memory Syndrome.
Holtzman inkblot technique.
Hormones.
Hostility.
Howard Earl Gardner.
Human Factors Engineering.
Human potential movement.
Humanistic psychology.
Humor.
Hypnosis.
Hypochondria.
Hypothalamus.
Hypothesis testing.
Id.
Identification with the aggressor.
Identity Foreclosure.
Identity Integrity.
Identity Moratorium.
Identity/identity formation.
Imagination.
Imitation.
Imprinting.
Impulse control disorders.
Incentive theory.
Incest.
Independent variable.
Inductive reasoning.
Industrial psychology.
Infancy.
Infantile amnesia.
Inferiority complex.
Information-processing theory.
Informed consent.
Initiative Versus Guilt.
Insanity defense.
Instinct.
Institutionalization.
Instrumental behavior.
Insulin shock therapy.
Intellectual disability.
Intelligence.
Intelligence quotient (IQ).
Intelligence tests.
Interdisciplinary treatment.
Interest inventory.
Intermittent explosive disorder.
Internet-based therapy.
Interpersonal therapy.
Intrinsic and extrinsic motivation.
Intrinsic Motivation and the 16 Basic Desires Theory.
Introversion.
Irrational beliefs.
Is Your Brain Really Necessary?.
Ivan Pavlov.
J Allan Hobson.
James Jerome Gibson.
James Marcia.
James Masterson.
James McKeen Cattell.
Jane Loevinger.
Janet Taylor Spence.
Jay Haley.
Jealousy.
Jean Martin Charcot.
Jean Piaget.
Jean Piaget's Studies on Child Development.
Jerome Kagan.
Jerome S. Bruner.
John Bowlby.
John Broadus Watson.
John C. Eccles.
John Dewey.
John Hurley Flavell.
John Locke.
Josef Breuer.
Joseph Wolpe.
Jukes family.
Julian B. Rotter.
Just noticeable difference.
Juvenile delinquency.
Kallikak family.
Karen Horney.
Karl Friston.
Karl Spencer Lashley.
Kenneth Bancroft Clark.
Kenneth W. Spence.
Kim Peek (the Real Rain Man).
Kinesthetic sense.
Kitty Genovese and the Bystander Effect.
Kleptomania.
Kohs block test.
Konrad Lorenz.
Kurt Koffka.
Kurt Lewin.
L L Thurston.
Language delay.
Language development.
Language disorder.
Late-life psychosis.
Latent inhibition.
Law of effect.
Lawrence Kohlberg.
Leadership.
Learned helplessness.
Learning.
Learning curve.
Learning disability.
Learning theory.
Learning: associative.
Learning: dialogic learning.
Learning: e-learning and augmented learning.
Learning: episodic.
Learning: formal and informal.
Learning: meaningful learning.
Learning: multimedia learning.
Learning: non-associative.
Learning-to-learn.
Left-brain hemisphere.
Leon Festinger.
Leon Festinger's Cult Studies on Cognitive Dissonance.
Leukotomy.
Lewis Terman.
Libido.
Lie detection.
Little Albert.
Localization (brain function).
Localization (sensory).
Locus of control.
Logical thinking.
Logotherapy.
Longitudinal study.
Lucid Dreams.
Luria's Mnemonist.
Luria's The Man with a Shattered World.
Major Functions of the Nervous System.
Malingering.
Mania.
Margaret Floy Washburn.
Margaret Mead.
Margaret Naumburg.
Maria Montessori.
Marijuana.
Marriage counseling.
Marsha M. Linehan.
Martin Seligman's studies on Learned Helplessness.
Mary Ainsworth.
Mary Whiton Calkins.
Max Wertheimer.
Mean.
Measurement.
Medard Boss.
Media psychology.
Median.
Meditation.
Melancholia.
Memory.
Mental age.
Mental health.
Mental hospitals.
Mental illness.
Mental imagery.
Merrill-Palmer Scales of Mental Tests.
Metapsychology.
Middle years.
Milgram's obedience experiment.
Milicent Washburn Shinn.
Military mental health.
Minimal brain dysfunction.
Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory.
Misinformation Effect.
Mnemonic strategies.
Mob psychology.
Mode.
Modeling.
Monist and pluralistic motivational theories.
Mood.
Mood stabilizers.
Moral development.
Motion perception.
Motivation.
Multicultural counseling.
Multivariate methods.
Murray Bowen.
Music therapy.
Myers-Briggs Type Indicator.
Mysophobia.
Nancy Bayley.
Narcissism.
Narcolepsy.
Narcotic drugs.
Nathan Ward Ackerman.
National Association of School Psychologists.
National Institute of Mental Health.
Nature-nurture controversy.
Near-death experience.
Negativism.
Nerve.
Nervous system.
Neural transmission: excitatory and inhibitory synapses.
Neuroimaging.
Neuro-Immunology.
Neuron.
Neuroplasticity.
Neuropsychological tests.
Neuropsychology.
Neurosis.
Neurotransmitter.
Night terrors.
Nightmares.
Noam Chomsky.
Norm.
Normal.
Normal distribution.
Obesity.
Objective tests.
Observational study.
Obsessive-compulsive disorder.
Occupational therapist.
Oedipus complex.
Oliver Sacks' An Anthropologist on Mars.
Online Learning.
Operant conditioning.
Oppositional-defiant disorder.
Organic disorder.
Organismic psychology.
Otto Rank.
Overachiever.
Pain.
Paired-associate learning.
Panic/panic disorders.
Paranoia.
Paraphilia.
Parapsychology.
Parent-child relationship.
Parkinson's disease.
Passive-aggressive personality.
Paul Everett Meehl.
Pedophilia.
Peer acceptance.
Peer groups.
Peer mediation.
Peer pressure.
Perfectionism.
Personality.
Personality development.
Personality disorders.
Personality inventory.
Pervasive developmental disorder (PDD).
Phenomenology.
Phil Zimbardo.
Philippe Pinel.
Philosophical psychology.
Phineas Gage.
Phineas Gage.
Phobia.
Phrenology.
Physiological psychology.
Piaget's theory of cognitive development.
Pierre Marie Felix Janet.
Pierre-Paul Broca.
Placebo effect.
Play.
Play therapy.
Pleasure principle.
Pornography.
Positive Psychology.
Postpartum depression.
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
Power.
Preconscious.
Predictor Variable.
Prejudice and discrimination.
Premarital counseling.
Premenstrual dysphoric disorder (PMDD).
Premenstrual syndrome (PMS).
Primal therapy.
Priming.
Probability.
Process psychology.
Programmed learning.
Projective tests.
Propaganda.
Prospective cohort study.
Psyche.
Psychiatrist.
Psychoanalysis.
Psychodynamic psychotherapy.
Psychohistory.
Psychological disorder.
Psychologist.
Psychology of self.
Psychometrics.
Psychopharmacology.
Psychophysics.
Psychosexual stages.
Psychosis.
Psychosocial development.
Psychosocial Isolation.
Psychosocial Trust.
Psychosomatic disorders.
Psychosurgery.
Psychotherapy.
Psychotic disorders.
Puberty.
Punishment.
Pyromania.
Qualitative methods.
Race and intelligence.
Racism.
Radical behaviorism.
Rape.
Rapid eye movement (REM).
Rat Park Studies.
Rating scale.
Rational emotive behavior therapy (REBT).
Rational motivation.
Raymond Bernard Cattell.
Reaction time.
Readiness test.
Reading disability.
Reality therapy.
Recovered memories.
Reflective listening.
Reflexes.
Rehabilitation.
Rehearsal.
Reinforcement.
Relational-cultural therapy.
Rene Descartes.
Research methodology.
Residential treatment.
Resilience.
Retrospective cohort study.
Ribonucleic acid (RNA).
Right-brain hemisphere.
Risk-taking behaviors.
Robbers Cave Experiment.
Robert Aubrey Hinde.
Robert J. Sternberg.
Robert M. Yerkes.
Robert Martin Coles.
Role playing.
Rollo May.
Ronald David Laing.
Rorschach technique.
Rosenzweig picture frustration study.
Rote learning.
Salem Witch Trials case of mass hysteria.
Salvador Minuchin.
Sampling methods.
Satanic ritual abuse.
Savant syndrome.
Scapegoating.
Schizophrenia.
Scholastic Assessment Test.
School phobia/school refusal.
School psychology.
Scientific method.
Seasonal affective disorder.
Security objects.
Self-actualization.
Self-concept.
Self-conscious emotions.
Self-control strategies.
Self-esteem.
Self-fulfilling prophecy.
Self-help groups.
Self-report inventory.
Semantic memory.
Sensation.
Sensitivity training.
Sensitization.
Sensory deprivation.
Sensory modalities.
Separation anxiety.
Serial learning.
Serial position function.
Sex differences.
Sex offenders.
Sex roles.
Sex therapies.
Sexological testing.
Sexual abuse.
Sexual dysfunction disorders.
Sexual identity.
Shaping.
Shyness.
Sigmund Freud.
Signal detection theory.
Significance level.
Sir Francis Galton.
Skinner air crib.
Sleep.
Sleep-wake disorders.
Smell.
Smoking behavior.
Social cognition.
Social competence.
Social distancing.
Social influence.
Social learning theory.
Social media and social media studies.
Social perception.
Social psychology.
Socialization.
Socioeconomic Status.
Sociometry.
Solomon Asch Conformity Experiments.
Somatotherapy.
Somnambulism.
Spatial memory.
Speech perception.
Speech-language pathology.
Split-brain technique.
Sports psychology.
Stalking.
Standard error.
Standard Progressive Matrices (SPM).
Standardized test.
Stanford Prison Experiment.
Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scales.
Stanley Milgram.
Stanley Milgram&apos;s Obedience-to-Authority Experiments.
Stanley Milgram's Obedience-to-Authority Experiments.
Statistical significance.
Statistics in psychology.
Stereotype.
Stimulants.
Strange situation.
Stranger anxiety.
Stress.
Structuralism.
Subliminal influence.
Suicide.
Superego.
Superstition.
Survey.
Synapse.
Systems psychology.
T. Berry Brazelton.
Tangential learning.
Taste.
Temperament.
Temporal motivation theory.
Ten Characteristics of Mental Health.
Test anxiety.
Testing bias.
Thalamus.
The Lost Mariner (Korsakov's Syndrome).
The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat.
Thematic Apperception Test.
Three Faces of Eve: the case of Chris Sizemore.
Torture.
Touch.
Tourette syndrome.
Transactional analysis.
Transference.
Transpersonal psychology.
Triarchic Theory of Intelligence.
Twins.
Unconscious.
Unconscious motivation.
Underachiever.
Urban Legends.
Validity.
Victor of Aveyron.
Viktor E. Frankl.
Violence.
Virginia E. Johnson.
Virginia M. Satir.
Virtual Therapy.
Vision.
Vocational aptitude test.
Waldo David Frank.
Washoe the chimpanzee.
Wechsler Intelligence Scales.
Weight control.
Wilder Graves Penfield.
Wilhelm Maximilian Wundt.
Wilhelm Reich.
William Herbert Sheldon.
William James.
William Masters.
William McDougall.
Withdrawal behavior.
Word association test.
Workplace violence.
Zone of proximal development.

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