The Gale Encyclopedia of Psychology

The Gale Encyclopedia of Psychology Jacqueline L. Longe, ed. 3^rded. Farmington Hills, MI: Gale, 2016. 1343 pp. 2 vols.

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.

Front Cover
Title Page
Copyright Page
Advisory Board
Contents
Please Read—Important Information
Foreword
Introduction
Alphabetical List of Entries
Contributors
Ability-Antipsychotic
- Ability
- Abnormal Psychology
- Abortion
- Absolute Threshold
- Acculturation
- Achievement Tests
- Nathan Ward Ackerman
- Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS)
- Action Potential
- Adaptation
- Addiction/Addictive Personality
- Adjustment Disorders
- Alfred Adler
- Adolescence
- Adolescent Depression
- Adoption
- Advertising Psychology
- Affect
- Affiliation
- Aggression
- Aging
- Mary Ainsworth
- Alcohol Dependence and Abuse
- Alienation
- Gordon Willard Allport
- 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
- Anne Anastasi
- Anger
- Animal Experimentation
- Anorexia
- Antianxiety Drugs
- Antidepressant Drugs
- Antipsychotic Drugs
Antisocial-Bilateral
- Antisocial Behavior
- Antisocial Personality Disorder
- Anxiety and Anxiety Disorders
- Apgar Score
- Aphasia
- 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
- Aversive Conditioning
- Avoidance Learning
- Albert Bandura
- Battered Child Syndrome
- Bayley Scales of Infant and Toddler Development
- Nancy Bayley
- Aaron T. Beck
- Clifford Beers
- Behavior Modification
- Behavior Therapy
- Behaviorism
- Bender-Gestalt Test
- Bruno Bettelheim
- Bilateral Cingulotomy
Bilingualism-Central
- Bilingualism and Bilingual Education
- Alfred Binet
- Binocular Depth Cues
- Biofeedback
- Bipolar Disorder
- Birth
- Birth Order
- Birth Trauma
- Bisexuality
- Body Dysmorphic Disorder (BDD)
- Body Image
- Bonding
- Borderline Personality Disorder
- Boredom
- Medard Boss
- Murray Bowen
- John Bowlby
- Brain
- Brain disorders
- Brain Injuries
- Brainwashing
- T. Berry Brazelton
- Josef Breuer
- Brief Reactive Psychosis
- Pierre-Paul Broca
- Jerome S. Bruner
- Bulimia
- Bullies
- Bystander Effect
- Caffeine-Related Disorders
- Mary Whiton Calkins
- Cannabis-Related Disorders
- Career Counseling
- Case Study Methodologies
- Catharsis
- Cathexis
- James McKeen Cattell
- Raymond Bernard Cattell
- Central Nervous System
- Central Tendency Measures
Character-Conflict
- Character
- Jean Martin Charcot
- Chi-Square Test
- Child Abuse
- Child Development
- Child Psychology
- Childhood
- Noam Chomsky
- Circadian Rhythms
- Kenneth Bancroft Clark
- Classical Conditioning
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Clinical Psychology
- Cliques
- Codependence
- Cognition
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
- Cognitive Development
- Cognitive Dissonance
- Cognitive Psychology
- Cognitive Therapy
- Cognitivism
- Robert Martin Coles
- 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-Dependent
- Conformity
- Conscience
- Conscious and Unconscious Motivations
- Consciousness
- Constructivism
- Consumer Psychology
- Contrast
- Control Group
- Convergent Thinking
- Conversion Reaction
- Coping Behavior
- Correctional Psychology
- Correlational Method
- Counseling Ppsychology
- 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
- Charles Robert Darwin
- 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-Emotion
- Depression
- Depth Perception
- René Descartes
- Descriptive Psychology
- Desensitization
- Determinism
- Developmental Delay
- Developmental Stages, Theories of
- John Dewey
- 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
- Down Syndrome
- Draw-a-Person Test
- Dreams
- Drive Reduction
- Drug therapy
- Dysfunctional Family
- Dyslexia
- Eating Disorders
- Hermann Ebbinghaus
- John C. Eccles
- Echolalia
- Ecological Systems Theory
- Educational Psychology
- Effector
- Ego
- Elective Mutism
- Electrical Stimulation of The Brain
- Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT)
- Electroencephalograph (EEG)
- David Elkind
- Albert Ellis
- Emotion
Emotional-Fight/Flight
- Emotional Development
- Emotional Intelligence
- Empathy
- Empiricism
- Encounter group
- Enculturation
- Endocrine Glands
- Environment
- Environmental Psychology
- Equilibrium Sense
- Erik Erikson
- Ethical Treatment of Animals
- Ethnocentrism
- Ethology
- Etiology
- Eugenics
- Evolutionary Psychology (EP)
- Exhibitionism
- Existential Psychology
- Experimental Design
- Experimental Group
- Experimental Psychology
- Expert Testimony
- Extinction
- Extroversion
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Hans Jürgen Eysenck
- Facial Recognition
- False Memory Syndrome
- Familial Retardation
- Family
- Family Size
- Family Therapy
- Fantasy
- Fear
- Gustav Theodor Fechner
- Feral Children
- Leon Festinger
- Fetal Alcohol Effect (FAE) and Syndrome (FAS)
- Fight/Flight Reaction
Figure-Giftedness
- Figure-Ground Perception
- Fine Motor Skills
- Fixation
- John Hurley Flavell
- Food Addiction
- Forensic Psychology
- Forgetting Curve
- Waldo David Frank
- Viktor E. Frankl
- Free Association
- Free-Recall Learning
- Frequency (Auditory)
- Frequency Distribution
- Anna Freud
- Sigmund Freud
- Friendship
- Erich Seligman Fromm
- Fugue
- Functional Disorder
- Functional Fixedness
- Functionalism
- Phineas Gage
- Galen
- Sir Francis Galton
- Gangs
- Howard Earl Gardner
- Gender Bias
- Gender Constancy
- Gender Dysphoria Disorder
- Gender Identity
- General Adaptation Syndrome
- Genius
- Geriatric Psychology
- Arnold Gesell
- Gestalt Principles of Organization
- Gestalt Psychology
- Gestalt Therapy
- Eleanor J. Gibson
- James Jerome Gibson
- Giftedness
Goal-Human
- Goal-Setting Theory
- Grief
- Gross Motor Skills
- Group Dynamics
- Group Therapy
- Guilt
- Edwin Ray Guthrie
- Habituation
- Jay Haley
- Halfway House
- Granville Stanley Hall
- Hallucinations
- Hallucinogens
- Halo Effect
- Handedness
- Hand-eye Coordination
- Harry F. Harlow
- Health Psychology
- Hearing
- Donald O. Hebb
- Fritz Heider
- Hermann Von Helmholtz
- Heredity
- Herzberg's Two-factor Theory
- Heterosexuality
- Heuristics
- High Intelligence
- High-risk Participant Studies
- Ernest R. Hilgard
- Robert Aubrey Hinde
- Histrionic Personality Disorder
- Hoarding
- Holtzman Inkblot Technique
- Evelyn Hooker
- Hormones
- Karen Horney
- Hostility
- Ethel Dench Puffer Howes
- Clark Leonard Hull
- Human Potential, Movement
Humanistic-Intrinsic
- Humanistic Psychology
- David Hume
- Humor
- Hypnosis
- Hypochondria
- Hypothalamus
- Hypothesis Testing
- Id
- Identification with the Aggressor
- Identity/Identity Formation
- Imagination
- Imitation
- Imprinting
- Impulse Control Disorders
- Incentive Theory
- Incest
- Independent Variable
- Inductive Reasoning
- Industrial Psychology
- Infancy
- Inferiority Complex
- Information-processing Theory
- Informed Consent
- Bärbel Inhelder
- 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-Learning
- Introversion
- Irrational Beliefs
- William James
- Pierre Marie Félix Janet
- Jealousy
- Arthur R. Jensen
- Virginia E. Johnson
- Jukes family
- Carl Jung
- Just Noticeable Difference
- Juvenile Delinquency
- Jerome Kagan
- Kallikak Family
- George Alexander Kelly
- Kinesthetic Sense
- Alfred Charles Kinsey
- Kleptomania
- Kurt Koffka
- Lawrence Kohlberg
- Kohs Block Test
- Emil Kraepelin
- Christine Ladd-Franklin
- Ronald David Laing
- Language Delay
- Language Development
- Language Disorder
- Karl Spencer Lashley
- Late-Life Psychosis
- Latent Inhibition
- Law of Effect
- Arnold Allan Lazarus
- Leadership
- Learned Helplessness
- Learning
- Learning: Associative
- Learning Curve
- Learning: Dialogic Learning
- Learning Disability
- Learning: E-Learning and Augmented Learning
- Learning: Episodic
Learning-Aleksandr
- Learning: Formal and Informal
- Learning: Meaningful Learning
- Learning: Multimedia Learning
- Learning: Non-Associative
- Learning Theory
- Learning-to-Learn
- Left-Brain Hemisphere
- Leukotomy
- Kurt Lewin
- Libido
- Lie Detection
- Marsha M. Linehan
- Localization (Brain Function)
- Localization (sensory)
- John Locke
- Locus of Control
- Jane Loevinger
- Logical Thinking
- Logotherapy
- Longitudinal Study
- Konrad Lorenz
- Accepts Nobel Prize for Behavioral Research
- Aleksandr Romanovich Luria

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