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Popular psychology : an encyclopedia
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Popular psychology : an encyclopedia

Author: Luis A Cordón
Publisher: Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2005.
Edition/Format: Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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The 120 or so entries in this volume cover a wide range of topics, including, for example, Alien abduction, Birth order, Insanity defense, Mad cow disease, Multiple personality disorder, Parenting styles, and Satanic ritual abuse. Also represented are individuals such as Carl Jung and Dr. Phil. The goal is "to try to counteract the tide of misleading information about the field of psychology with a concise guide to  Read more...
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Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Luis A Cordón
ISBN: 0313324573 9780313324574
OCLC Number: 56064630
Description: xix, 274 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
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)
Responsibility: Luis A. Cordón.
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The 120 or so entries in this volume cover a wide range of topics, including, for example, Alien abduction, Birth order, Insanity defense, Mad cow disease, Multiple personality disorder, Parenting styles, and Satanic ritual abuse. Also represented are individuals such as Carl Jung and Dr. Phil. The goal is "to try to counteract the tide of misleading information about the field of psychology with a concise guide to some things that the well-informed student of psychology and the interested general public ought to know."

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