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Popular psychology : an encyclopedia / Luis A. Cordón.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cordón, Luis A.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Psychology--Encyclopedias.
- Psychology.
- Mental Disorders.
- Medical Subjects:
- Psychology.
- Mental Disorders.
- Genre:
- Encyclopedias.
- Physical Description:
- xix, 274 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2005.
- Summary:
- A readable and fascinating guide to what is unproven and blatantly false and what is based on decades of reliable evidence.
- Contents:
- Acupuncture
- Addiction
- Alien abduction
- Alzheimer's Disease
- American Psychological Association (APA)
- Amnesia
- Aphasia
- Aromatherapy
- Asperger's Disease
- Astrology
- Attachment
- Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder
- Autism
- "Big Five" personality factors
- Bilingualism
- Biofeedback
- Birth order
- Body type
- Brain
- Brain imaging techniques
- Brainwashing
- Chemical imbalance
- Chomsky, Noam (1928- )
- Chopra, Deepak (1947- )
- Cognitive behavior therapy
- Cognitive dissonance
- Cold reading
- Correlation
- Craniosacral therapy
- Depressants
- Dianetics/Scientology
- Diffusion of responsibility
- Down Syndrome
- DSM-IV
- Education of All Handicapped Children Act (P.L. 94-142)
- Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT)
- Emotional intelligence
- Epilepsy
- Erikson, Erik (1902-1994)
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Facilitated Communication (FC)
- Freud, Sigmund (1856-1939)
- Galton, Francis (1822-1911)
- Gardner, Howard (1943- )
- Gestalt
- Gingko, Biloba
- Gray, John (1951- )
- Hawthorn Effect
- Homopathy
- Humanistic psychology
- Hypnosis
- Imprinting
- Insanity defense
- Intelligence
- James, William (1842-1910)
- Jung, Carl Gustaf (1875-1961)
- Kava
- Kinsey, Alfred (1894-1956)
- Learning disability
- Mad Cow Disease
- Masters, William H. (1915- ) and Johnson, Virginia E. (1925- )
- McGraw, Phil ("Dr. Phil" ) (1950 - )
- Media violence and its effects on children
- Memory
- Mental Retardation (MR)
- Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI)
- Mood disorders
- Moral development
- Mozart Effect
- Multiple Personality Disorder (MPD)
- Munchausen Syndrome
- Narcolepsy
- Neo-Freudians
- Nervous breakdown
- Nervouse system
- Nonspecific effects
- Obedience to authority
- Opionids (Opiates)
- Paraphillias
- Parapsychology
- Parenting styles
- Past-life regression
- Pavlov, Ivan (1849-1936)
- Pervasive developmental disorders
- Phobias
- Piaget, Jean (1896-1980)
- Postraumatic Stress Disorder
- Prefrontal lobotomy
- Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder (PMDD)
- Primal therapy
- Projective tests of personality
- Pseudoscience
- Psychedelic drugs
- Psychiatry
- Psychology, research methods in
- Randi, James (1928- )
- Rebirthing
- Rolfing
- St. John's Wort
- Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis
- Satanic ritual abuse
- Savants and prodigies
- Schizophrenia
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-esteem
- Skinner, B. F. (1904-1990)
- Sleep and dreaming
- Split-brain surgery
- Stimulants
- Stockholm Syndrome
- Stroke
- Subliminal perception
- Ten percent myth
- Therapeutic touch
- Thought field therapy
- Tourette syndrome
- Transcendental meditation
- Vygotsky, Lev Semenovich (1896-1934)
- Watson, John B. (1878-1958)
- Williams Syndrome
- Wundt, Wilhelm (1832-1920)
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [263]-267) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Harry E. Humphreys Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 0313324573
- 9780313324574
- OCLC:
- 56064630
- Publisher Number:
- 99943358824
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