Ability, Abortion, Absolute Threshold, Acculturation - Cultural pluralism and multiculturalism, Action Potential, Adaptation, Addiction/Addictive Personality, Affect, Affiliation, Aggression, Aging, Alcohol Dependence and Abuse - QUESTIONS TO ASK BEFORE ALCOHOL OR SUBSTANCE ABUSE TREATMENT, CHILDREN OF ALCOHOLICS, Alienation, Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA), Anger, Antidepressants - Tricyclic antidepressants (TCAs), Selective serotonin re-uptake inhibitors (SSRIs), Archetype, Artificial Intelligence, Associationism, Attachment, Attention, Attitude and Behavior - Changing attitudes to change behavior, Changing behavior to influence attitudes…
Abnormal Psychology, Applied Psychology, Counseling Psychology, Cross-Cultural Psychology, Developmental Psychology, Differential Psychology, Educational Psychology, Ethology, Etiology - The change in theory, Existential Psychology - History of the movement, Experimental Psychology, Forensic Psychology, Gestalt Psychology, Health Psychology, Humanistic Psychology - Theories and therapeutic applications, Research, Industrial Psychology, Media Psychology - What does psychology have to do with media?, Processing information, Metapsychology, Occupational Therapist, Parapsychology, Philosophical Psychology, Physiological Psychology, Psychiatry/Psychiatrist, Psychoanalysis - Psychoanalysis and the development of personality, Freud's critics…
Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS), Adjustment Disorders, Alzheimer's Disease, Anorexia, Antisocial Behavior - Causes and characteristics, Treatment, Antisocial Personality Disorder - Treatment, Anxiety/Anxiety Disorders, Aphasia, Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) - Who gets ADHD?, What causes ADHD?, Treatment, Autism, Bipolar Disorder, Brain Disorders, Brief Reactive Psychosis, Bulimia, Communication Skills and Disorders, Conversion Reaction, Delirium, Delusion/Delusional Disorders, Dependent Personality Disorder, Developmental Reading Disorder - Types of and causes of reading disorders…
Nathan Ward Ackerman - Pioneers field of family psychology, Founds institute to study the family, Alfred Adler, Mary Ainsworth, Gordon Willard Allport - Publishes theory of personality, Examines the nature of prejudice, Anne Anastasi - Skips high school and discovers psychology at Barnard College, Albert Bandura, Nancy Bayley - Defines her niche in developmental psychology, Initiates major study of infant development, Aaron T. Beck - A pragmatic approach to therapy, A family affair, Clifford Beers, Bruno Bettelheim, Alfred Binet, Medard Boss, Murray Bowen, John Bowlby…
Amnesia, Assimilation, Avoidance Learning, Concept Formation, Conditioned Response, Conditioned Stimulus, Conditioning, Forgetting Curve, Free-Recall Learning, Imitation, Imprinting, Learned Helplessness, Learning Curve, Learning Disability - Types of learning disabilities, Treatment, Learning Theory, Learning-To-Learn, Memory - FALSE AND RECOVERED MEMORIES, Modeling, Operant Conditioning, Paired-Associate Learning, Programmed Learning, Rehearsal, Semantic Memory, Serial Learning, Serial Position Function, Social Learning Theory, Socialization…
Animal Experimentation - History, Current trends, Behavior Modification - DID SKINNER RAISE HIS OWN CHILD IN A SKINNER BOX?, Experimental Design, Experimental Group, Jukes Family, Kallikak Family, Milgram's Obedience Experiment, Rosenzweig Picture Frustration Study, Sensory Deprivation…
American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, American Psychiatric Association, American Psychological Association (APA), American Psychological Society (APS), National Association of School Psychologists, National Institute of Mental Health, Psychological Abstracts…
Achievement Tests, Ames Room, Apgar Score, Psychological Assessment, Bayley Scales of Infant Development, Bender-Gestalt Test, Creativity Tests, Culture-Fair Test, Draw-a-Person Test, Electroencephalograph (EEG), Free Association, Holtzman Inkblot Technique, Kohs Block Test, Lie Detection, Mean - EXAMPLE, Measurement, Median - EXAMPLE, Merrill-Palmer Scales Of Mental Tests, Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory, Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, Personality Inventory, Rating Scale, Readiness Test, Role Playing/Psychodrama, Rorschach Technique…
Art Therapy - Applications, Benefits, Attribution Theory, Aversive Conditioning, Behavior Therapy, Cognitive Behavior Therapy, Counterconditioning, Covert Sensitization, Crisis Intervention, Desensitization, Drug Therapy, Electrical Stimulation of the Brain (ESB), Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT), Family Therapy, Group Therapy, Marriage Counseling, Music Therapy - General effects of music therapy, How music therapy is used, Primal Therapy, Rational-Emotive Behavior Therapy, Reality Therapy - Language of reality therapy, Procedure, Self-Help Groups - Overview, Benefits, Results, Sensitivity Training…
abacus, abnormal, abreaction, acceleration, accidental property, accident proneness, accommodation (of the eye), acetylcholine (Ach), acupuncture, addiction, Alfred Adler Biography, (1870–1937), adolescence, adrenaline (epinephrine), Edgar Douglas Adrian Biography, aesthetics, aesthetics: some psychological approaches, affect, afferent, after-effect, perceptual, after-image, ageing, ageing: sensory and perceptual changes, aggressive behaviour, agnosia, agoraphobia, agraphia, akinesia, alcoholism, alexia (or word-blindness), Al-Farabi (Muhammad Ibn-Muhammad Ibn-Tarkhan Ibn-Uzlagh Abu-Nasr Al-Farabi, or Alpharabius) Biography, (870–950)…
Alfred Binet Biography, (1857–1911), biological clock, Maine de Biran Biography, bit, black, blindness, recovery from, blindsight, blinking, blushing, body language, body–mind problem, boggle, George Boole Biography, (1815–64), Edwin Garrigues Boring Biography, (1886–1968), John Bowlby Biography, (1907–90), Francis Herbert Bradley Biography, (1846–1924), Braille, brain and soul, brain development, brain function and awareness, brain imaging, brain stimulation, brain theorizing, brain waves, Franz Brentano Biography, (1838–1917), Joseph Breuer Biography, (1842–1925), Sir David Brewster Biography, (1781–1868)…
cortical maps, Émile Coué Biography, (1857–1926), courage, Kenneth John William Craik Biography, (1914–45), creativity, cretinism, criminology, critical periods, cross-modal sensory integration, cruelty, cultural differences in perception, curiosity, cybernetics, history of, John Dalton Biography, (1766–1844), danger recognition, Charles Robert Darwin Biography, (1809–82), Erasmus Darwin Biography, (1731–1802), deduction, déjà vu, delirium, delusion, dementia, dendrite, denotation, depersonalization, depression, depth perception, René Descartes Biography, (1596–1650), design, argument from, for the existence of God…
facial expressions: origins, faculty psychology, falsification, Al- Farabi Biography, fatigue, fear and courage, Gustav Theodor Fechner Biography, (1801–87), feedback and feedforward, Sir David Ferrier Biography, (1843–1928), figural after-effects, figure–ground, filling in scotomas, films, perception of, Sir Ronald Aylmer Fisher Biography, (1890–1962), (Marie Jean) Pierre Flourens Biography, (1794–1867), forgetting, Fourier analysis, Frankenstein, Sir James George Frazer Biography, (1854–1941), free association, free will, Anna Freud Biography, (1895–1982), Sigmund Freud Biography, (1856–1939)…
ideal, idealism, ideas, illusions, image rotation, imagination, impression, imprinting, Indian ideas of the mind, induction, infancy, mind in, inferiority complex, information rate of vision, information theory, ink-blot test, innate ideas, insanity: history, inspiration, instinct, intellect, intelligence, intelligence: measurement, intelligence differences, intention, intentionality, intention tremor, internal models, interviews, introspection, introversion, intuition, invention, invertebrate learning and intelligence, iris, irradiation, irritability, Islamic philosophy…
Warren Sturgis McCulloch Biography, (1898–1968), McCulloch's contributions to brain theory, William McDougall Biography, (1871–1938), ‘mad as a hatter’, François Magendie Biography, (1783–1855), Maine de Biran Biography, male and female brain, Thomas Robert Malthus Biography, (1766–1834), mania, manic depressive, manners, David Courtenay Marr Biography, (1945–80), masochism, materialism, matter, ME, meaning, medulla, memes, memories, false, memory, memory: autobiographical, memory: biological basis, memory: experimental approaches, memory and context, mental concepts: causal analysis…
Lionel Sharples Penrose Biography, (1898–1972), Pepper's ghost, perception, perception: cultural differences, perception: early Greek theories, perceptions as unconscious influences, personal equation, personal identity, personality disorder, perspective, phantom limbs, phenomenology, phobias, phonetics, phrenology, physiognomy, Jean Piaget Biography, (1896–1980), Piaget and education, Henri Pieron Biography, (1881–1964), placebo, placebo effect, plasticity in the nervous system, Plato Biography, (427–347bc), Platonic Forms, pleasure centres, Jules Henri Poincaré Biography, (1854–1912), pragmatism, Pre-Socratic philosophers…
skills, memory for, Burrhus Frederic Skinner Biography, (1904–90), Skinner box, sleep, sleepwalking, smell, social psychology, Socrates Biography, (469–399bc), solipsism, somatotopical, somnambulism, space psychology, spatial coordination, Charles Edward Spearman Biography, (1863–1945), speech recognition by machine, Herbert Spencer Biography, (1820–1903), Roger Wolcott Sperry Biography, (1913–94), spindle cells, Benedict de Spinoza (Baruch Spinoza) Biography, (1632–77), spiritualism, split-brain and the mind, squint, stereoscopic vision, Stanley Smith Stevens Biography, (1906–73), stimulus…
abacus, abductive reasoning, Pierre Abélard Biography, (1079–1142), actantial model, actants, acting, advertising, aesthetics, affordance, algorithm, allegory, alphabet, Louis Althusser Biography, (1918–1990), Anatomy of Criticism (1957), aniconic visual signs, animal, apartheid, arbitrariness, principle of, architecture, Rudolph Arnheim Biography, (1904–2007), art, art and illusion (1960), articulation, artificial intelligence, artificial language, artificial life, Augustine of Hippo Biography, (354–430), autopoiesis, Mikhail M. Bakhtin Biography, (1895–1975), Roland Barthes Biography, (1915–1980)…
ethnoscience, evolution, exaptation, expert systems, face, facial action coding system (FACS), feedback and feedforward, feminism and feminist theories, feminist semiotics, fiction, film semiotics, fingerspelling, flaming, Michel Foucault Biography, (1926–1984), Gottlob Frege Biography, (1848–1925), Northrop Frye Biography, (1912–1991), Gaia hypothesis, James J. Gibson Biography, (1904–1979), Erving Goffman Biography, (1922–1982), Ernst H. Gombrich Biography, (1909–2001), Nelson Goodman Biography, (1906–1998), John Rankin Goody Biography, (b. 1919), gossip, Grammar Of Motives, A (1945)…
narratology, Jean‐Jacques Nattiez Biography, (b. 1945), neurosemiotics, nominalism, nonverbal bodily sign categories, Nonverbal Communication in the Novel, number representation, opposition, paradigm, Paralanguage, parallelism, Paris School, paroemiology, parole, parsing, Charles Sanders Peirce Biography, (1839–1914), pertinence, phoneme, photography, pictorial semiotics, picture, picture perception, pictures and computers, play, poetics, Joannes Poinsot Biography, (1589–1644), polysystem theory, postage stamp, postcolonialism, postmodernism, postsemiotics, poststructuralism, pragmatics, Prague School, punctuation, queer theory…