The Gale encyclopedia of psychology /
Jacqueline L. Longe, editor.
- Fourth edition.
- 1 online resource (4 volumes (xxiii, 1446 pages)) : illustrations (some color)
- Gale eBooks .
Includes index.
Ability -- Abnormal psychology -- Abortion -- Absolute threshold -- Acculturation -- Achievement tests -- Ackerman, Nathan Ward -- Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) -- Action potential -- Adaptation Addiction/addictive personality -- Adjustment disorders -- Adler, Alfred -- Adolescence -- Adolescent depression -- Adoption -- Advertising psychology -- Affect -- Affiliation -- Aggression -- Aging -- Ainsworth, Mary -- Alcohol dependence and abuse -- Alienation -- Allport, Gordon Willard -- 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 -- Anastasi, Anne -- Anger -- Anger management -- Animal experimentation -- 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 -- Art therapy -- Artificial intelligence -- 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 -- Autonomous sensory meridian response (ASMR) -- Aversive conditioning -- Avoidance learning -- Baer, Donald -- Bandura, Albert -- Battered child syndrome -- Bayley, Nancy -- Bayley scales of infant and toddler development -- Beck, Aaron T. -- Beers, Clifford -- Behavior modification -- Behavior therapy -- Behaviorism -- Bem, Daryl -- Bender-Gestalt test -- Bettelheim, Bruno -- Bilateral cingulotomy -- Bilingualism and bilingual education -- Binet, Alfred -- Binocular depth cues -- Biofeedback -- Bipolar disorder -- Birth -- Birth order -- Birth trauma -- Bisexuality -- Body dysmorphic disorder (BDD) -- Body image -- Bonding -- Borderline personality disorder -- Boredom -- Boss, Medard -- Bowen, Murray -- Bowlby, John -- Brain -- Brain disorders -- Brain injuries -- Brainwashing -- Brazelton, T. Berry -- Breuer, Josef -- Brief reactive psychosis -- Broca, Pierre-Paul -- Bruner, Jerome S. -- Bulimia -- Bullies -- Bystander effect -- Caffeine-related disorders -- Calkins, Mary Whiton -- Cannabis-related disorders -- Career counseling -- Case study methodologies -- Catharsis -- Cathexis -- Cattell, James McKeen -- Cattell, Raymond Bernard -- Causation -- Central nervous system -- Central tendency measures -- Character -- Charcot, Jean Martin -- Child abuse -- Child development -- Child psychology -- Childhood -- Chi-square test -- Chomsky, Noam -- Circadian rhythms -- Clark, Kenneth Bancroft -- Clark, Mamie Phipps -- Classical conditioning -- Client-centered therapy -- Clinical psychology -- Cliques -- Codependence -- Cognition -- Cognitive behavioral therapy -- Cognitive development -- Cognitive dissonance -- Cognitive psychology -- Cognitive therapy -- Cognitivism -- Coles, Robert Martin -- Color vision -- Coma -- Combat neurosis -- Communication skills and disorders -- Comparative psychology -- Competence to stand trial -- Competition -- Compulsions -- Computer simulation (modeling) -- Computer use stress -- 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 -- Coping strategies -- Correctional psychology -- Correlational method -- Counseling psychology -- Counterconditioning -- Covert sensitization -- Creativity -- Creativity tests -- Criminal profiling -- Crisis intervention -- Critical period -- Cross-cultural psychology -- Cross-sectional study -- Cults -- Cultural-historical psychology -- Culture-fair test -- Cutting (self-harm) -- Darwin, Charles Robert -- Data mining -- 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 -- Descartes, Ren ̌-- Descriptive psychology -- Desensitization -- Determinism -- Developmental delay -- Developmental stages, theories of -- Dewey, John -- 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 -- Domestic violence -- Down syndrome -- Draw-a-person test -- Dreams -- Drive reduction -- Drug therapy -- Dysfunctional family -- Dyslexia -- Eating disorders -- Ebbinghaus, Hermann -- Eccles, John C. -- Echolalia -- Ecological Systems Theory -- Educational psychology -- Effector -- Ego -- Elective mutism -- Electrical stimulation of the brain -- Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) -- Electroencephalograph (EEG) -- Elkind, David -- Ellis, Albert -- Emotion -- Emotional abuse -- Emotional development -- Emotional intelligence -- Empathy -- Empiricism -- Encounter group -- Enculturation -- Endocrine glands -- Environment -- Environmental psychology -- Epigenesis -- Equilibrium sense -- Erikson, Erik -- Ethical treatment of animals -- Ethnocentrism -- Ethology -- Etiology -- Eugenics -- Evolutionary psychology (EP) -- Exhibitionism -- Existential psychology -- Experimental design -- Experimental group -- Experimental psychology -- Expert testimony -- Extinction -- Extrasensory perception -- Extroversion -- Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) -- Eysenck, Hans Jürgen -- Facial recognition -- False memory syndrome -- Familial retardation -- Family -- Family size -- Family therapy -- Fantasy -- Fear -- Fechner, Gustav Theodor -- Feral children -- Festinger, Leon -- Fetal alcohol effect (FAE) and syndrome (FAS) -- Fight/flight reaction -- Figure-ground perception -- File-drawer problem -- Fine motor skills -- Fixation -- Flavell, John Hurley -- Food addiction -- Forensic psychology -- Forgetting curve -- Frank, Waldo David -- Frankl, Viktor E. -- Free association -- Free-recall learning -- Frequency (auditory) -- Frequency distribution -- Freud, Anna -- Freud, Sigmund -- Friendship -- Friston, Karl -- Fromm, Erich Seligman -- Fugue -- Functional disorder -- Functional fixedness -- Functionalism -- Galen -- Galton, Sir Francis -- Gangs -- Gardner, Howard Earl -- Gaslighting -- Gender bias -- Gender constancy -- Gender dysphoria disorder -- Gender identity -- Gender pronouns -- General adaptation syndrome -- Genius -- Geriatric psychology -- Gesell, Arnold -- Gestalt principles of organization -- Gestalt psychology -- Gestalt therapy -- Gibson, Eleanor J. -- Gibson, James Jerome -- Giftedness -- Gilligan, Carol -- Goal-setting theory -- Grief -- Gross motor skills -- Group dynamics -- Group therapy -- Guilt -- Guthrie, Edwin Ray -- Habituation -- Haley, Jay -- Halfway house -- Hall, Granville Stanley -- Hallucinations -- Hallucinogens -- Halo effect -- Handedness -- Hand-eye coordination -- Harlow, Harry F. -- Health psychology -- Hearing -- Hebb, Donald O. -- Heider, Fritz -- Heredity -- Herzberg's two-factor theory -- Heterosexuality -- Heuristics -- High intelligence -- High-risk participant studies -- Hilgard, Ernest R. -- Hinde, Robert Aubrey -- Histrionic personality disorder -- Hoarding -- Hobson, J. Allan -- Holtzman inkblot technique -- Hooker, Evelyn -- Hormones -- Horney, Karen -- Hostility -- Howes, Ethel Dench Puffer -- Hull, Clark Leonard -- Human factors engineering -- Human potential movement -- Humanistic psychology -- Hume, David -- 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 -- Inhelder, Bärbel -- Initiative volume 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 -- James, William -- Janet, Pierre Marie Fľix -- Jealousy -- Jensen, Arthur R. -- Johnson, Virginia E. -- Jukes family -- Jung, Carl -- Just noticeable difference Juvenile delinquency -- Kagan, Jerome -- Kallikak family -- Kelly, George Alexander -- Kinesthetic sense -- Kinsey, Alfred Charles -- Kleptomania -- Koffka, Kurt -- Kohlberg, Lawrence -- Kohs block test -- Kraepelin, Emil -- Ladd-Franklin, Christine -- Laing, Ronald David -- Language delay -- Language development -- Language disorder -- Lashley, Karl Spencer -- Late-life psychosis -- Latent inhibition -- Law of effect -- Lazarus, Arnold Allan -- Leadership -- Learned helplessness -- Learning -- Learning: associative -- Learning curve -- Learning: dialogic learning -- Learning disability. Learning: e-learning and augmented learning -- Learning: episodic -- Learning: formal and informal -- Learning: meaningful learning -- Learning: multimedia learning -- Learning: non-associative -- Learning theory -- Learning-to-learn -- Left-brain hemisphere -- Leukotomy -- Lewin, Kurt -- Libido -- Lie detection -- Linehan, Marsha M. -- Localization (brain function) -- Localization (sensory) -- Locke, John -- Locus of control -- Loevinger, Jane -- Logical thinking -- Logotherapy -- Longitudinal study -- Lorenz, Konrad -- Lucid Dreams -- Luria, Aleksandr Romanovich -- Maccoby, Eleanor Emmons -- Malingering -- Mania -- Marcia, James -- Marijuana -- Marriage counseling -- Maslow, Abraham -- Masters, William -- Masterson, James -- May, Rollo -- McDougall, William -- Mead, Margaret -- Mean -- Measurement -- Media psychology -- Median -- Meditation -- Meehl, Paul Everett -- Melancholia -- Memory -- Mental age -- Mental health -- Mental hospitals -- Mental illness -- Mental imagery -- Merrill-Palmer Scales of Mental Tests -- Mesmer, Franz Anton -- Metapsychology -- Meyer, Adolf -- Middle years -- Milgram, Stanley -- Milgram's obedience experiment -- Military mental health -- Miller, Alice -- Mindfulness -- Minimal brain dysfunction -- Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory -- Minuchin, Salvador -- Mnemonic strategies -- Mob psychology -- Mode -- Modeling -- Monist and pluralistic motivational theories -- Montessori, Maria -- Mood -- Mood stabilizers -- Moral development -- Morgan, Christiana Drummond -- Motion perception -- Motivation -- Multicultural counseling -- Multivariate methods -- Murray Jr., Henry Alexander -- Music therapy -- Myers-Briggs Type Indicator -- Mysophobia -- Narcissism -- Narcolepsy -- Narcotic drugs -- National Association of School Psychologists -- National Institute of Mental Health -- Nature-nurture controversy -- Naumburg, Margaret -- 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 -- Norm -- Normal -- Normal distribution -- Obesity -- Objective tests -- Observational study -- Obsessive-compulsive disorder -- Occupational therapist -- Oedipus complex -- Online learning -- Operant conditioning -- Oppositional-defiant disorder -- Organic disorder -- Organismic psychology -- Otis, Arthur -- Overachiever -- Pain -- Paired-associate learning -- Panic/panic disorders -- Paranoia -- Paraphilia -- Parapsychology -- Parent-child relationship -- Parkinson's disease -- Passive-aggressive personality -- Pavlov, Ivan -- Pedophilia -- Peer acceptance -- Peer groups -- Peer mediation -- Peer pressure -- Penfield, Wilder Graves -- Perfectionism -- Perls, Frederick S. -- Personality -- Personality development -- Personality disorders -- Personality inventory -- Pervasive developmental disorder (PDD) -- Phenomenology -- Philosophical psychology -- Phineas Gage -- Phobia -- Phrenology -- Physiological psychology -- Piaget, Jean -- Piaget's theory of cognitive development -- Pinel, Philippe -- Placebo effect -- Play -- Play therapy -- Pleasure principle -- Police and public safety psychology -- Pornography -- Positive psychology -- Postpartum depression -- Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) -- Power -- Preconscious -- 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 -- Psychological safety -- Psychologist -- Psychology of self -- Psychometrics -- Psychopharmacology -- Psychophysics -- Psychosexual stages -- Psychosis -- Psychosocial development -- Psychosocial isolation -- Psychosomatic disorders -- Psychosurgery -- Psychotherapy -- Psychotic disorders -- Puberty -- Punishment -- Pyromania -- Qualitative methods -- Race and intelligence -- Racism -- Radical behaviorism -- Rank, Otto -- Rape -- Rapid eye movement (REM) -- Rating scale -- Rational emotive behavior therapy (REBT) -- Rational motivation -- Reaction time -- Readiness test -- Reading disability -- Reality therapy -- Recovered memories -- Reflective listening -- Reflexes -- Rehabilitation -- Rehearsal -- Reich, Wilhelm -- Reinforcement -- Relational-cultural therapy -- Research methodology -- Residential treatment -- Resilience -- Retrospective cohort study -- Ribonucleic acid (RNA) -- Right-brain hemisphere -- Risk-taking behaviors -- Rogers, Carl -- Role playing -- Rorschach technique -- Rosenzweig picture frustration study -- Rote learning -- Rotter, Julian B. -- Rush, Benjamin -- Sampling methods -- Satanic ritual abuse -- Satir, Virginia M. -- 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 -- Sexual orientation -- Shakow, David -- Shaping -- Sheldon, William Herbert -- Shinn, Milicent Washburn -- Shyness -- Signal detection theory -- Significance level -- Skinner, B. F. -- 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 -- Somatotherapy -- Somnambulism -- Spatial memory -- Spearman, Charles Edward -- Speech perception -- Speech-language pathology -- Spence, Janet Taylor -- Spence, Kenneth W. -- Split-brain technique -- Spock, Benjamin -- Sports psychology -- Stalking -- Standard error -- Standard Progressive Matrices (SPM) -- Standardized test -- Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scales -- Statistical significance -- Statistics in psychology -- Stereotype -- Sternberg, Robert J. -- Stimulants -- Strange situation -- Stranger anxiety -- Stress -- Structuralism -- Subliminal influence -- Suicide -- Sullivan, Harry Stack -- Sumner, Francis Cecil -- Superego -- Superstition -- Survey -- Synapse -- Systems psychology -- Tangential learning -- Taste -- Teens and depression -- Teens and self-confidence -- Teens and suicide -- Temperament -- Temporal motivation theory -- Terman, Lewis -- Test anxiety -- Testing bias -- Thalamus -- Thematic Apperception Test -- Thorndike, Edward -- Thurstone, L. L. -- Tolman, Edward Chace -- Torture -- Touch -- Tourette syndrome -- Transactional analysis -- Transference -- Transgender mental health -- Transpersonal psychology -- Triarchic Theory of Intelligence -- Twins -- Unconscious -- Unconscious motivation -- Underachiever -- Urban legends -- Validity -- Violence -- Virtual therapy -- Vision -- Vocational aptitude test -- von Helmholtz, Hermann -- Washburn, Margaret Floy -- Watson, John Broadus -- Wechsler, David -- Wechsler Intelligence Scales -- Weight control -- Wernicke, Carl -- Wertheimer, Max -- Withdrawal behavior -- Wolpe, Joseph -- Word association test -- Workplace violence -- Wundt, Wilhelm Maximilian -- Yerkes, Robert M. -- Zigler, Edward F. -- Zimbardo, Phil -- Zone of proximal development.
This resource covers the entire spectrum of psychology, including: notable people, theories and terms; landmark case studies and experiments; applications of psychology in advertising, medicine and sports; and career information.