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Index
Absolute refractory period
Achievement motive
Achievement tests
Acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS)
Action potential
Additive colour mixing
Adoption studies
Afferent nerve fibers
Afterimage
Age of viability
Aggression
Agonist
Agoraphobia
Alcohol
Altruism
Amnesia
Antagonist
Anterograde amnesia
Antianxiety drugs
Antidepressant drugs
Antipsychotic drugs
Anxiety disorders
Applied psychology
Approach-approach conflict
Approach-avoidance conflict
Aptitude tests
Attachment
Attention
Attitudes
Attributions
Autonomic nervous system
Availability heuristic
Aversion therapy
Avoidance-avoidance conflict
Axon
Basal metabolic rate
Basilar membrane
Behaviour
Behaviourism
Behaviour therapies
Belief perseverance
Binocular cues
Biological rhythms
Biomedical therapies
Biopsychosocial model
Bipolar mood disorders
Bisexuals
Blood-brain barrier
Bystander effect
Cannabis
Case study
Catastrophic thinking
Catatonic schizophrenia
Central nervous system (CNS)
Centration
Cephalocaudal trend
Cerebral cortex
Cerebral hemispheres
Channel
Chromosomes
Chunk
Circadian rhythms
Client-centered therapy
Clinical psychologists
Clinical psychology
Cochlea
Cognition
Cognitive development
Cognitive dissonance
Cognitive therapy
Collectivism
Colour blindness
Companionate love
Complementary colours
Concordance rate
Cones
Confirmation bias
Conflict
Conformity
Confounding of variables
Consciousness
Conservation
Consolidation
Constructive coping
Construct validity
Content validity
Control group
Convergent thinking
Conversion disorder
Coping
Corpus callosum
Correlation
Correlation coefficient
Counselling psychologists
Creativity
Criterion-related validity
Cross-sectional study
Culture
Culture-bound disorders
Dark adaptation
Data collection techniques
Decay theory
Declarative memory system
Defense mechanisms
Defensive attribution
Deinstitutionalization
Delusions
Dendrites
Dependent variable
Depressive disorders
Depth perception
Descriptive statistics
Development
Developmental norms
Deviation IQ scores
Diagnosis
Discrimination
Disorganized schizophrenia
Display rules
Dissociation
Dissociative amnesia
Dissociative disorders
Dissociative fugue
Dissociative identity disorder
Distal stimuli
Divergent thinking
Double-blind procedure
Dream
Dream analysis
Drive
Dual-coding theory
Efferent nerve fibers
Egocentrism
Elaboration
Electrocardiograph (EKG)
Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT)
Electroencephalograph (EEG)
Electromyograph (EMG)
Electrooculograph (EOG)
Embryonic stage
Emotion
Empiricism
Encoding
Encoding specificity principle
Endocrine system
Endorphins
Episodic memory system
Etiology
Experiment
Experimental group
Experimenter bias
Explicit memory
External attributions
Extraneous variables
Family studies
Farsightedness
Feature analysis
Feature detectors
Fetal alcohol syndrome
Fetal stage
Flashbulb memories
Forebrain
Forgetting curve
Fovea
Free association
Frustration
Functionalism
Fundamental attribution error
Galvanic skin response (GSR)
Gender
Gender differences
Gender roles
Gender stereotypes
General adaptation syndrome
Generalized anxiety disorder
Genes
Genetic mapping
Germinal stage
Glucose
Glucostats
Group
Group cohesiveness
Group polarization
Group therapy
Groupthink
Gustatory system
Hallucinations
Hallucinogens
Health psychology
Heritability ratio
Heterosexuals
Hierarchy of needs
Hindbrain
Histogram
Homeostasis
Homosexuals
Hormones
Humanism
Hypnosis
Hypochondriasis
Hypothalamus
Hypothesis
Illusory correlation
Immune response
Implicit memory
Impossible figures
Incentive
Independent variable
Individualism
Infant mortality
Inferential statistics
Ingratiation
Ingroup
Insanity
Insight therapies
Insomnia
Insulin
Intelligence quotient (IQ)
Intelligence tests
Interference theory
Internal attribution
Interpersonal attraction
Interpretation
Involuntary commitment
Irreversibility
Journal
Kinesthetic sense
Latent content
Latitude of acceptance
Learned helplessness
Lens
Levels of processing theory
Lie detector
Life changes
Light adaptation
Limbic system
Link method
Lithium
Longitudinal study
Long-term memory
Manifest content
Matching hypothesis
Maturation
Mean
Mean length of utterance (MLU)
Median
Medical model
Meditation
Menarche
Mental age
Mental hospital
Mental set
Message
Metalinguistic awareness
Method of loci
Midbrain
Mnemomic devices
Mode
Model
Monocular clues
Mood disorders
Morphemes
Motivated forgetting
Motivation
Motor development
Multiple personality disorder
Myelin sheath
Narcotics (opiates)
Naturalistic observation
Nearsightedness
Need for self actualization
Negative reinforcement
Negatively skewed distribution
Nerves
Neuromodulators
Non-REM (NREM) sleep
Nonsense syllables
Normal distribution
Null hypothesis
Obedience
Object permanence
Observational learning
Obsessive - compulsive disorder
Oedipal complex
Olfactory system
Operant conditioning
Operational definition
Operations
Optical illusion
Optimism
Outgroup
Overextension
Overlearning
Overregularization
Panic disorder
Paranoid schizophrenia
Parasympathetic division
Psychogenic amnesia
Pavlovian conditioning
Percentile score
Passionate love
Perception
Perceptual constancy
Perceptual hypothesis
Perceptual set
Performance evaluation
Peripheral nervous system
Person perception
Personality
Personality tests
Personality trait
Phi phenomenon
Phobic disorder
Phonemes
Physical dependence
Pituitary gland
Placebo effects
Placenta
Pleasure principle
Polygenic traits
Polygraph
Positive reinforcement
Positively skewed distribution
Post-synaptic potential (PSP)
Preconscious
Prejudice
Prenatal period
Pressure
Primacy effect
Primary reinforcer
Proactive interference
Problem solving
Procedural memory system
Prognosis
Projection
Projective tests
Proximal stimulus
Proximity
Proximodistal trend
Psychiatrists
Psychoactive drugs
Psychoanalysis
Psychoanalytic theory
Psychodynamic theories
Psychogenic amnesia
Psychological dependence
Psychological test
Psychology
Psychopharmacotherapy
Psychosexual stages
Psychosomatic diseases
Puberty
Pubescence
Punishment
Pupil
Random assignment of subjects
Rational-emotive therapy
Rationalization
Reaction formation
Reaction range
Reality principle
Recall
Receiver
Recency effect
Receptive field of a visual cell
Reciprocity
Recognition
Regression
Rehearsal
Reinforcement
Reinforcement contingencies
Relearning
Reliability
REM sleep
Replication
Representativeness heuristic
Repression
Research methods
Resistance
Resistance to extinction
Resting potential
Retention
Retina
Retrieval
Retroactive interference
Retrograde amnesia
Reversible figure
Risky decision making
Rods
Sample
Sampling bias
Scatter diagram
Schedule of reinforcement
Schema
Schizophrenic disorders
Secondary reinforcers
Secondary sex characteristics
Sedatives
Self-actualizing persons
Self-concept
Self-efficacy
Self-report inventories
Self-serving bias
Semantic memory system
Semantic network
Senile dementia
Sensation
Sensory adaptation
Sensory memory
Separation anxiety
Serial position effect
Set point
Sex
Sexual orientation
Shaping
Short-term memory
Skinner Box
Slow-wave sleep
Social clock
Social desirability bias
Social loafing
Social psychology
Social schema
Social skills training
Social support
Socialization
Sociobiology
Soma
Somatic nervous system
Somatization disorder
Somatoform disorder
Source
Source monitoring / Source monitoring error
Split-brain surgery
Spontaneous recovery
SQ3R
Stage
Standard deviation
Statistical significance
Statistics
Stereotypes
Stimulants
Stimulus
Stimulus contiguity
Stimulus discrimination
Stimulus generalization
Storage
Stress
Striving for superiority
Structuralism
Subjects
Subtractive color mixing
Superego
Survey
Sympathetic division
Synapse
Synaptic cleft
Syntax
Systematic desensitization
Tardive dyskinesia
Telegraphic speech
Temperament
Terminal buttons
Test norms
Test-retest reliability
Test-wiseness
Thalamus
Theory
Tip of the tongue phenomenon
Token economy
Tolerance
Transference
Transvestism
Trial
Trial and error
Twin studies
Type A personality
Type B personality
Unconditioned response
Unconditioned stimulus
Unconscious
Undifferentiated schizophrenia
Validity
Variability
Variable-interval (VI) schedule
Variable-ratio (VR) schedule
Variables
Vestibular system
Volley principle
Zygote
Acquisition
Animism
Antecedents
Archetypes
Avoidance learning
Baseline period
Behaviour modification
Behavioural contract
Classical conditioning
Coefficient of determination
Collective unconscious
Compensation
Compliance
Conditioned reinforcers
Conditioned response
Conditioned stimulus
Conscious
Continuous reinforcement
Cumulative recorder
Decision making
Discriminative stimuli
Displacement
Ego
Elicit
Emit
Escape learning
Extinction
Extraverts
Fast mapping
Field dependence-independence
Fight or flight response
Fixation
Fixed-interval (FI) schedule
Fixed ratio (FR) schedule
Framing
Frequency distribution
Frequency polygon
Functional fixedness
Gamblers fallacy
Heuristic
Higher order conditioning
Holophrases
Id
Identical twins
Identification
Incongruence
Insight
Intermittent reinforcement
Introspection
Introverts
Language
Language-acquisition device (LAD)
Learning
Linguistic relativity
Catatonic type
Basal Ganglia
Compulsions
Central tendency
Counterconditioning
Disorganized type
Ego defense
Illusion
Mnemonics
Myelin
Neurons
Neurotransmitter
Obsessions
Obsessive
Opiates
Optical
Paranoid type
Parasympathetic nervous system
Population
Primary sex characteristics
Ruminations
Split-brain patients
Undifferentiated
Undifferentiated type
Variable ratio interval
Standardization
Animation
Achievement
Historiography (Psyc 375)
Presentism (Psyc 375)
Historicism (Psyc 375)
Zeitgeist (Psyc 375)
Great-person approach (Psyc 375)
Historical development approach (Psyc 375)
Eclectic approach (Psyc 375)
Science (Psyc 375)
Empirical observation (Psyc 375)
Rationalism (Psyc 375)
Empiricism (Hergenhahn) (Psyc 375)
Scientific theory (Psyc 375)
Confirmable propositions (Psyc 375)
Scientific law (Psyc 375)
Public observation (Psyc 375)
Correlational law (Psyc 375)
Causal law (Psyc 375)
Determinism (Psyc 375)
Popper, Karl (1902 - 1994) (Psyc 375)
Principle of falsifiability (Psyc 375)
Risky predictions (Psyc 375)
Postdiction (Psyc 375)
Kuhn, Thomas (1922 - 1996) (Psyc 375)
Paradigm (Psyc 375)
Normal science (Psyc 375)
Puzzle solving (Psyc 375)
Anomalies (Psyc 375)
Preparadigmatic stage (Psyc 375)
Paradigmatic stage (Psyc 375)
Revolutionary stage (Psyc 375)
Biological determinism (Psyc 375)
Environmental determinism (Psyc 375)
Sociocultural determinism (Psyc 375)
Physical determinism (Psyc 375)
Psychical determinism (Psyc 375)
Indeterminism (Psyc 375)
Nondeterminism (Psyc 375)
Materialist (Psyc 375)
Idealist (Psyc 375)
Monist (Psyc 375)
Dualist (Psyc 375)
Interactionism (Psyc 375)
Emergentism (Psyc 375)
Epiphenomenalism (Psyc 375)
Psychophysical parallelism (Psyc 375)
Double aspectism (Psyc 375)
Preestablished harmony (Psyc 375)
Occasionalism (Psyc 375)
Nativist (Psyc 375)
Mechanism (Psyc 375)
Vitalism (Psyc 375)
Epistemology (Psyc 375)
Passive mind (Psyc 375)
Active mind (Psyc 375)
Naïve realism (Psyc 375)
Reification (Psyc 375)
Pyrrho of Elis (ca. 365 - 275 B.C.) (Psyc 375)
Skepticism (Psyc 375)
Dogmatist (Psyc 375)
Antisthenes (ca. 445 - 365 B.C.) (Psyc 375)
Cynicism (Psyc 375)
Diogenes (ca. 412 - 323 B.C.) (Psyc 375)
Epicureanism (Psyc 375)
Epicurus of Samos (ca. 341 - 270 B.C.) (Psyc 375)
Hedonism (Psyc 375)
Zeno of Citium (ca. 333 - 262 B.C.) (Psyc 375)
Stoicism (Psyc 375)
Neoplatonism (Psyc 375)
Philo (ca. 25 B.C. - A.D. 50) (Psyc 375)
Plotinus (ca. 204 - 270) (Psyc 375)
Vedantism (Psyc 375)
Zoroastrianism (Psyc 375)
Mystery religions (Psyc 375)
Jesus (ca. 4 B.C.- A.D. 30) (Psyc 375)
St. Paul (ca. A.D. 10 - 64) (Psyc 375)
Emperor Constantine (ca. 280 - 337) (Psyc 375)
St. Augustine (354 - 430) (Psyc 375)
Internal sense (Psyc 375)
Avicenna (980 - 1037) (Psyc 375)
Averroes (1126 - 1198) (Psyc 375)
Maimonides (1135 - 1204) (Psyc 375)
St. Anselm (1033 - 1109) (Psyc 375)
Ontological argument for the existence of God (Psyc 375)
Lombard, Peter (ca. 1095 - 1160) (Psyc 375)
Scholasticism (Psyc 375)
Abelard, Peter (1079 - 1142) (Psyc 375)
Dialectic method (Psyc 375)
Realism (Psyc 375)
Nominalism (Psyc 375)
Conceptualism (Psyc 375)
St. Albertus Magnus (ca. 1193 - 1280) (Psyc 375)
St. Thomas Aquinas (1225 - 1274) (Psyc 375)
St. Bonaventure (1225 - 1274) (Psyc 375)
William of Occam (1290 - 1350) (Psyc 375)
Occam's razor (Psyc 375)
Renaissance (Psyc 375)
Renaissance humanism (Psyc 375)
Petrarch, Francesco (1304 - 1374) (Psyc 375)
Pico, Giovanni (1463 - 1494) (Psyc 375)
Erasmus, Desiderius (1466 - 1536) (Psyc 375)
Luther, Martin (1483 - 1546) (Psyc 375)
Reformation (Psyc 375)
Protestantism (Psyc 375)
Montaigne, Michel de (1533 - 1592) (Psyc 375)
Ptolemy (ca. 90 - 168) (Psyc 375)
Ptolemaic system (Psyc 375)
Geocentric theory (Psyc 375)
Aristarchus of Samos (ca. 310 - 230 B.C.) (Psyc 375)
Copernicus, Nicolaus (1473 - 1543) (Psyc 375)
Heliocentric theory (Psyc 375)
Bruno, Giordano (1548 - 1600) (Psyc 375)
Kepler, Johannes (1571 - 1630) (Psyc 375)
Galileo (1564 - 1642) (Psyc 375)
Primary qualities (Galileo) (Psyc 375)
Secondary qualities (Galileo) (Psyc 375)
Newton, Isaac (1642 - 1727) (Psyc 375)
Deism (Psyc 375)
Bacon, Francis (1561 - 1626) (Psyc 375)
Induction (Psyc 375)
Deduction (Psyc 375)
Positivism (Psyc 375)
Idols of the cave (Psyc 375)
Idols of the tribe (Psyc 375)
Idols of the marketplace (Psyc 375)
Idols of the theatre (Psyc 375)
Descartes, René (1596 - 1650) (Psyc 375)
Descartes, René (1596 - 1650) (Psyc 402)
Innate ideas (Psyc 375)
Intuition (Psyc 375)
Phenomenologist (Psyc 375)
Animal spirits (Psyc 375)
Locke, John (1632 - 1704) (Psyc 375)
Sensation (Locke) (Psyc 375)
Reflection (Locke) (Psyc 375)
Quality (Locke) (Psyc 375)
Primary qualities (Locke) (Psyc 375)
Secondary qualities (Locke) (Psyc 375)
Paradox of the basins (Psyc 375)
Associationism (Psyc 375)
Berkeley, George (1685 - 1753) (Psyc 375)
Hume, David (1711 - 1776) (Psyc 375)
Law of resemblance (Psyc 375)
Law of contiguity (Hume) (Psyc 375)
Law of cause and effect (Psyc 375)
Hartley, David (1705 - 1757) (Psyc 375)
Vibratiuncles (Psyc 375)
Bentham, Jeremy (1748 - 1832) (Psyc 375)
Utilitarianism (Psyc 375)
Mill, James (1773 - 1836) (Psyc 375)
Mill, John Stuart (1806 - 1873) (Psyc 375)
Mental chemistry (Psyc 375)
Primary laws (Psyc 375)
Secondary laws (Psyc 375)
Ethology (Psyc 375)
Bain, Alexander (1818 - 1903) (Psyc 375)
Law of compound association (Psyc 375)
Law of constructive association (Psyc 375)
Voluntary behavior (Psyc 375)
Spontaneous activity (Psyc 375)
Gassendi, Pierre (1592 - 1655) (Psyc 375)
La Mettrie, Julien de (1709 - 1751) (Psyc 375)
Condillac, Étienne Bonnot de (1715 - 1780) (Psyc 375)
Helvétius, Claude (1715 - 1771) (Psyc 375)
Scientism (Psyc 375)
Comte, Auguste (1798 - 1857) (Psyc 375)
Sociology (Psyc 375)
Mach, Ernst (1838 - 1916) (Psyc 375)
Spinoza, Baruch (1632 - 1677) (Psyc 375)
Pantheism (Psyc 375)
Malebranche, Nicolas de (1638 - 1715) (Psyc 375)
Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm von (1646 - 1716) (Psyc 375)
Monads (Psyc 375)
Law of continuity (Psyc 375)
Petites perceptions (Psyc 375)
Limen (Psyc 375)
Reid, Thomas (1710 - 1796) (Psyc 375)
Commonsense philosophy (Psyc 375)
Faculty psychology (Psyc 375)
Kant, Immanuel (1724 - 1804) (Psyc 375)
Categories of thought (Psyc 375)
Categorical imperative (Psyc 375)
Anthropology (Psyc 375)
Herbart, Johann Friedrich (1776 - 1841) (Psyc 375)
Psychic mechanics (Psyc 375)
Apperceptive mass (Psyc 375)
Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich (1770 - 1831) (Psyc 375)
Absolute, The (Psyc 375)
Enlightenment (Psyc 375)
Romanticism (Psyc 375)
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques (1712 - 1778) (Psyc 375)
Noble savage (Psyc 375)
General will (Psyc 375)
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von (1749 - 1832) (Psyc 375)
Schopenhauer, Arthur (1788 - 1860) (Psyc 375)
Will to survive (Psyc 375)
Existentialism (Psyc 375)
Kierkegaard, Søren (1813 - 1855) (Psyc 375)
Aesthetic stage (Psyc 375)
Ethical stage (Psyc 375)
Religious stage (Psyc 375)
Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm (1844 - 1900) (Psyc 375)
Apollonian aspect of human nature (Psyc 375)
Dionysian aspect of human nature (Psyc 375)
Perspectivism (Psyc 375)
Will to power (Psyc 375)
Supermen (Psyc 375)
Wundt, Wilhelm Maximilian (1832 - 1920) (Psyc 375)
Freud, Sigmund (1856 - 1939) (Psyc 375)
Watson, John Broadus (1878 - 1958) (Psyc 375)
Fechner, Gustav Theodor (1801 - 1887) (Psyc 375)
Constructive alternativism (Psyc 375)
Kelly, George (1905 - 1967) (Psyc 375)
Humanistic psychology (Psyc 375)
Existential psychology (Psyc 375)
Hobbes, Thomas (1588 - 1679) (Psyc 375)
James, William (1842 - 1910) (Psyc 375)
Helmholtz, Hermann von (1821 - 1894) (Psyc 375)
Reaction time (Psyc 375)
Personal equations (Psyc 375)
Bell, Charles (1774 - 1842) (Psyc 375)
Magendie, François (1783 - 1855) (Psyc 375)
Bell-Magendie law (Psyc 375)
Müller, Johannes (1801 - 1858) (Psyc 375)
Doctrine of specific nerve energies (Psyc 375)
Adequate stimulation (Psyc 375)
Principle of conservation of energy (Psyc 375)
Sensation (Helmholtz) (Psyc 375)
Perception (Helmholtz) (Psyc 375)
Unconscious inference (Psyc 375)
Young-Helmholtz theory of color vision (Psyc 375)
Resonance place theory of auditory perception (Psyc 375)
Hering, Ewald (1834 - 1918) (Psyc 375)
Ladd-Franklin, Christine (1847 - 1930) (Psyc 375)
Physiognomy (Psyc 375)
Gall, Franz Joseph (1758 - 1828) (Psyc 375)
Phrenology (Psyc 375)
Spurzheim, Johann Gasper (1776 - 1832) (Psyc 375)
Formal discipline (Psyc 375)
Flourens, Pierre (1794 - 1867) (Psyc 375)
Broca, Paul (1824 - 1880) (Psyc 375)
Clinical method (Psyc 375)
Broca's area (Psyc 375)
Fritsch, Gustav (1838 - 1927) (Psyc 375)
Hitzig, Eduard (1838 - 1907) (Psyc 375)
Ferrier, David (1843 - 1928) (Psyc 375)
Weber, Ernst Heinrich (1795 - 1878) (Psyc 375)
Kinesthesis (Psyc 375)
Two-point threshold (Psyc 375)
Just noticeable difference (jnd) (Psyc 375)
Weber's law (Psyc 375)
Absolute threshold (Psyc 375)
Differential threshold (Psyc 375)
Negative sensations (Psyc 375)
Panpsychism (Psyc 375)
Psychophysics (Psyc 375)
Method of limits (Psyc 375)
Method of constant stimuli (Psyc 375)
Method of adjustment (Psyc 375)
Active reason (Psyc 375)
Alcmaeon (fl. ca. 500 B.C.) (Psyc 375)
Allegory of the cave (Psyc 375)
Analogy of the divided line (Psyc 375)
Anaximander (ca. 610 - 540 B.C.)
Animism (Greeks) (Psyc 375)
Anthropomorphism (Psyc 375)
Aristotle (384 - 322 B.C.) (Psyc 375)
Associationism (Aristotle) (Psyc 375)
Common sense (Psyc 375)
Cosmology (Psyc 375)
Democritus (ca. 460 - 370 B.C.) (Psyc 375)
Dreaming (Psyc 375)
Dionysiac-Orphic religion (Psyc 375)
Efficient cause (Psyc 375)
Entelechy (Psyc 375)
Eidola (Psyc 375)
Elementism (Psyc 375)
Empedocles (ca. 495 - 435 B.C.) (Psyc 375)
Essence (Psyc 375)
Galen (ca. 130 - 200) (Psyc 375)
Final cause (Psyc 375)
Formal cause (Psyc 375)
Golden mean
Heraclitus (ca. 540 - 480 B.C.) (Psyc 375)
Gorgias (ca. 485 - 380 B.C.) (Psyc 375)
Hippocrates (ca. 460 - 377 B.C.) (Psyc 375)
Imagination (Psyc 375)
Inductive definition
Introspection (Plato) (Psyc 375)
Law of similarity
Laws of association (Aristotle) (Psyc 375)
Law of contiguity (Aristotle)
Law of contrast (Psyc 375)
Law of frequency (Psyc 375)
Magic (Psyc 375)
Material cause (Psyc 375)
Nihilism (Psyc 375)
Olympian religion (Psyc 375)
Parmenides (fl. 515 B.C.) (Psyc 375)
Passive reason (Psyc 375)
Physicist
Physis (Psyc 375)
Plato (ca. 427 - 347 B.C.) (Psyc 375)
Protagoras (ca. 485 - 415 B.C.) (Psyc 375)
Pythagoras (cs. 485 - 415 B.C.) (Psyc 375)
Rational soul (Psyc 375)
Recall (Aristotle) (Psyc 375)
Reductionism (Psyc 375)
Remembering (Aristotle) (Psyc 375)
Reminiscence theory of knowledge (Psyc 375)
Scala naturae (Psyc 375)
Sensitive soul (Psyc 375)
Socrates (469 - 399 B.C.) (Psyc 375)
Solipsism (Psyc 375)
Sophists (Psyc 375)
Teleology (Psyc 375)
Temple medicine (Psyc 375)
Thales (ca. 625 - 545 B.C.) (Psyc 375)
Theory of forms (Psyc 375)
Transmigration of the soul (Psyc 375)
Unmoved mover (Psyc 375)
Vegetative soul (Psyc 375)
Xenophanes (ca. 560 - 478 B.C.) (Psyc 375)
Zeno's paradox (Psyc 375)
School (Psyc 375)
Will (Wundt) (Psyc 375)
Voluntarism (Psyc 375)
Mediate experience (Psyc 375)
Introspection (Wundt) (Psyc 375)
Elements of thought (Psyc 375)
Sensation (Wundt) (Psyc 375)
Feelings (Wundt) (Psyc 375)
Wertheimer, Max (1880 - 1943) (Psyc 375)
Heidegger, Martin (1889 - 1976) (Psyc 375)
Pragmatism (Psyc 375)
Tridimensional theory of feeling (Psyc 375)
Functionalism (Hergenhahn) (Psyc 375)
Köhler, Wolfgang (1887 - 1967) (Psyc 375)
Koffka, Kurt (1886 - 1941) (Psyc 375)
Perception (Wundt) (Psyc 375)
Creative synthesis (Psyc 375)
Donders, Franciscus Cornelius (1818 - 1889) (Psyc 375)
Mental chronometry (Psyc 375)
Principle of the heterogony of ends (Psyc 375)
Principle of contrasts (Psyc 375)
Principle toward the development of opposites (Psyc 375)
Völkerpsychologie (Psyc 375)
General impression (Psyc 375)
Titchener, Edward Bradford (1867 - 1927) (Psyc 375)
Structuralism (Hergenhahn) (Psyc 375)
Stimulus error (Psyc 375)
Context theory of meaning (Psyc 375)
Brentano, Franz Clemens (1838 - 1917) (Psyc 375)
Act psychology (Psyc 375)
Intentionality (Psyc 375)
Phenomenological introspection (Psyc 375)
Stumpf, Carl (1848 - 1936) (Psyc 375)
Clever Hans phenomenon (Psyc 375)
Husserl, Edmund (1859 - 1938) (Psyc 375)
Pure phenomenology (Psyc 375)
Mental essences (Psyc 375)
Külpe, Oswald (1862 - 1915) (Psyc 375)
Würzburg school (Psyc 375)
Imageless thoughts (Psyc 375)
Mental set (Hergenhahn) (Psyc 375)
Vaihinger, Hans (1852 - 1933) (Psyc 375)
Ebbinghaus, Hermann (1850 - 1909) (Psyc 375)
Savings (Psyc 375)
Third-force psychology (Psyc 375)
Skinner, Burrhus Frederic (1904 - 1990) (Psyc 375)
Logical positivism (Psyc 375)
Thorndike, Edward Lee (1874 - 1949) (Psyc 375)
Morgan, Conwy Lloyd (1852 - 1936) (Psyc 375)
Law of effect (Psyc 375)
Radical environmentalism (Psyc 375)
Operational definition (Hergenhahn) (Psyc 375)
Gestalt psychology (Psyc 375)
Dialectic process (Psyc 375)
Phenomenology (Psyc 375)
Jung, Carl (1875 - 1961) (Psyc 375)
Repression (Hergenhahn) (Psyc 375)
Unconscious motivation (Psyc 375)
Id (Hergenhahn) (Psyc 375)
Adler, Alfred (1870 - 1937) (Psyc 375)
Lamarck, Jean (1744 - 1829) (Psyc 375)
Inheritance of acquired characteristics (Psyc 375)
Spencer, Herbert (1820 - 1903) (Psyc 375)
Spencer-Bain principle (Psyc 375)
Survival of the fittest (Psyc 375)
Social Darwinism (Psyc 375)
Darwin, Charles (1809 - 1882) (Psyc 375)
Malthus, Thomas (1766 - 1834) (Psyc 375)
Natural selection (Psyc 375)
Fitness (Psyc 375)
Adaptive features (Psyc 375)
Evolutionary psychology (Psyc 375)
Inclusive fitness (Psyc 375)
Galton, Francis (1822 - 1911) (Psyc 375)
Eugenics (Psyc 375)
Nature-nurture controversy (Psyc 375)
Correlation (Hergenhahn) (Psyc 375)
Regression toward the mean (Psyc 375)
Coefficient of correlation (r) (Psyc 375)
Cattell, James McKeen (1860 - 1944) (Psyc 375)
Binet, Alfred (1857 - 1911) (Psyc 375)
Stern, William (1871 - 1938) (Psyc 375)
Mental age (Hergenhahn) (Psyc 375)
Intelligence quotient (Hergenhahn) (Psyc 375)
Mental orthopedics (Psyc 375)
Spearman, Charles (1863 - 1945) (Psyc 375)
Factor analysis (Psyc 375)
General intelligence (g) (Psyc 375)
Burt, Cyril (1883 - 1971) (Psyc 375)
Goddard, Henry Herbert (1866 - 1957) (Psyc 375)
Terman, Lewis Madison (1877 - 1956) (Psyc 375)
Hollingworth, Leta Stetter (1886 - 1939) (Psyc 375)
Yerkes, Robert M. (1876 - 1956) (Psyc 375)
Operant behavior (Psyc 375)
Hall, Granville Stanley (1844 - 1924) (Psyc 375)
Angell, James Rowland (1869 - 1949) (Psyc 375)
Carr, Harvey (1873 - 1954) (Psyc 375)
Dewey, John (1859 - 1952) (Psyc 375)
Radical empiricism (Psyc 375)
Stream of consciousness (Psyc 375)
Habits (James) (Psyc 375)
Empirical self (Psyc 375)
James-Lange theory of emotion (Psyc 375)
Münsterberg, Hugo (1863 - 1916) (Psyc 375)
Forensic psychology (Psyc 375)
Reciprocal antagonism (Psyc 375)
Calkins, Mary Whiton (1863 - 1930) (Psyc 375)
Paired-associate technique (Psyc 375)
Recapitulation theory (Psyc 375)
Sumner, Francis Cecil (1895 - 1954) (Psyc 375)
Clark, Kenneth Bancroft (1895 - 1954) (Psyc 375)
Adaptive act (Psyc 375)
Woodworth, Robert Sessions (1869 - 1962) (Psyc 375)
Dynamic psychology (Psyc 375)
Morgan's canon (Psyc 375)
Washburn, Margaret Floy (1871 - 1931) (Psyc 375)
Connectionism (Psyc 375)
Law of exercise (Psyc 375)
Law of use (Psyc 375)
Law of disuse (Psyc 375)
Identical elements theory of transfer (Psyc 375)
Ideo-motor theory of behavior (Psyc 375)
Behaviorism (Hergenhahn) (Psyc 375)
Sechenov, Ivan M. (1829 - 1905) (Psyc 375)
Inhibition (Psyc 375)
Pavlov, Ivan Petrovitch (1849 - 1936) (Psyc 375)
Conditioned reflex (Psyc 375)
Unconditioned reflex (Psyc 375)
Unconditioned stimulus (Hergenhahn) (Psyc 375)
Unconditioned response (Hergenhahn) (Psyc 375)
Conditioned stimulus (Hergenhahn) (Psyc 375)
Conditioned response (Hergenhahn) (Psyc 375)
Excitation (Psyc 375)
Cortical mosaic (Psyc 375)
Extinction (Respondent) (Psyc 375)
Spontaneous recovery (Hergenhahn) (Psyc 375)
Disinhibition (Psyc 375)
Experimental neurosis (Psyc 375)
First-signal system (Psyc 375)
Second-signal system (Psyc 375)
Bechterev, Vladimir M. (1857 - 1927) (Psyc 375)
Reflexology (Psyc 375)
Tropism (Psyc 375)
Jones, Mary Cover (1896 - 1987) (Psyc 375)
Behavior therapy (Psyc 375)
Law of recency (Psyc 375)
Radical behaviorism (Psyc 375)
Methodological behaviorism (Psyc 375)
McDougall, William (1871 - 1938) (Psyc 375)
Hormic psychology (Psyc 375)
Sentiment (Psyc 375)
Observational terms (Psyc 375)
Theoretical terms (Psyc 375)
Operationism (Psyc 375)
Physicalism (Psyc 375)
Neobehaviorism (Psyc 375)
Tolman, Edward Chace (1886 - 1959) (Psyc 375)
Molecular behavior (Psyc 375)
Purposive behavior (Psyc 375)
Purposive behaviorism (Psyc 375)
Intervening variable (Psyc 375)
Cognitive map (Psyc 375)
Hypothesis (Tolman) (Psyc 375)
Vicarious trial and error (Psyc 375)
Expectancy (Tolman) (Psyc 375)
Belief (Tolman) (Psyc 375)
Confirmation (Tolman) (Psyc 375)
Performance (Psyc 375)
Latent learning (Psyc 375)
Latent extinction (Psyc 375)
Hull, Clark Leonard (1884 - 1952) (Psyc 375)
Hypothetico-deductive theory (Psyc 375)
Reinforcement (Hull) (Psyc 375)
Drive reduction (Psyc 375)
Habit strength (Psyc 375)
Reaction potential (Psyc 375)
Guthrie, Edwin Ray (1886 - 1959) (Psyc 375)
Law of contiguity (Guthrie) (Psyc 375)
One-trial learning (Psyc 375)
Maintaining stimuli (Psyc 375)
Functional analysis (Psyc 375)
Descriptive behaviorism (Psyc 375)
Respondent behavior (Psyc 375)
S-R psychology (Psyc 375)
Instrumental conditioning (Psyc 375)
Token economies (Hergenhahn) (Psyc 375)
Holism (Psyc 375)
Molecular approach (Psyc 375)
Molar approach (Psyc 375)
Gestalt (Psyc 375)
Ehrenfels, Christian von (1859 - 1932) (Psyc 375)
Phi phenomenon (Hergenhahn) (Psyc 375)
Field theory (Psyc 375)
Psychophysical isomorphism (Psyc 375)
Constancy hypothesis (Psyc 375)
Law of Prägnanz (Psyc 375)
Perceptual constancy (Hergenhahn) (Psyc 375)
Figure-ground relationship (Psyc 375)
Principle of continuity (Psyc 375)
Principle of proximity (Psyc 375)
Principle of inclusiveness (Psyc 375)
Principle of similarity (Psyc 375)
Principle of closure (Psyc 375)
Geographical environment (Psyc 375)
Behavioral environment (Psyc 375)
Insightful learning (Psyc 375)
Transposition (Psyc 375)
Productive thinking (Psyc 375)
Extrinsic reinforcement (Psyc 375)
Intrinsic reinforcement (Psyc 375)
Memory process (Psyc 375)
Memory trace (Psyc 375)
Lewin, Kurt (1890 - 1947) (Psyc 375)
Life space (Psyc 375)
Psychological facts (Psyc 375)
Principle of contemporaneity (Psyc 375)
Quasi needs (Psyc 375)
Zeigarnik effect (Psyc 375)
Approach-approach conflict (Hergenhahn) (Psyc 375)
Avoidance-avoidance conflict (Hergenhahn) (Psyc 375)
Approach-avoidance conflict (Hergenhahn) (Psyc 375)
Group dynamics (Psyc 375)
Medical model of mental illness (Psyc 375)
Psychological model of mental illness (Psyc 375)
Supernatural model of mental illness (Psyc 375)
Natural law (Psyc 375)
Sympathetic magic (Psyc 375)
Contagious magic (Psyc 375)
Trephination (Psyc 375)
Pinel, Philippe (1745 - 1826) (Psyc 375)
Rush, Benjamin (1745 - 1813) (Psyc 375)
Dix, Dorothea Lynde (1802 - 1887) (Psyc 375)
Kraepelin, Emil (1856 - 1926) (Psyc 375)
Witmer, Lightner (1867 - 1956) (Psyc 375)
Szasz, Thomas (b. 1920) (Psyc 375)
Mesmer, Franz Anton (1734 - 1815) (Psyc 375)
Animal magnetism (Psyc 375)
Puységur, Marquis de (1751 - 1825) (Psyc 375)
Artificial somnambulism (Psyc 375)
Posthypnotic amnesia (Psyc 375)
Posthypnotic suggestion (Psyc 375)
Nancy school (Psyc 375)
Charcot, Jean-Martin (1825 - 1893) (Psyc 375)
Janet, Pierre (1859 - 1947) (Psyc 375)
Contagion effect (Psyc 375)
Breuer, Joseph (1842 - 1925) (Psyc 375)
Cathartic method (Psyc 375)
Transference (Hergenhahn) (Psyc 375)
Countertransference (Psyc 375)
Free association (Hergenhahn) (Psyc 375)
Seduction theory (Psyc 375)
Dream work (Psyc 375)
Manifest content (Hergenhahn) (Psyc 375)
Latent content (Hergenhahn) (Psyc 375)
Wish fulfillment (Psyc 375)
Displacement (Hergenhahn) (Psyc 375)
Oedipus complex (Psyc 375)
Parapraxes (Psyc 375)
Overdetermination (Psyc 375)
Instincts (Freud) (Psyc 375)
Libido (Psyc 375)
Ego (Hergenhahn) (Psyc 375)
Cathexis (Psyc 375)
Superego (Hergenhahn) (Psyc 375)
Anticathexis (Psyc 375)
Life instinct (Psyc 375)
Death instinct (Psyc 375)
Anxiety (Freud) (Psyc 375)
Ego defense mechanisms (Psyc 375)
Freud, Anna (1895 - 1982) (Psyc 375)
Developmental lines (Psyc 375)
Altruistic surrender (Psyc 375)
Identification with the aggressor (Psyc 375)
Ego psychology (Psyc 375)
Klein, Melanie (1882 - 1960) (Psyc 375)
Personal unconscious (Psyc 375)
Collective unconscious (Hergenhahn) (Psyc 375)
Archetype (Hergenhahn) (Psyc 375)
Introversion (Psyc 375)
Extraversion (Psyc 375)
Synchronicity (Psyc 375)
Compensation (Hergenhahn) (Psyc 375)
Overcompensation (Psyc 375)
Feelings of inferiority (Psyc 375)
Inferiority complex (Psyc 375)
Creative self (Psyc 375)
Horney, Karen (1885 - 1952) (Psyc 375)
Basic evil (Psyc 375)
Basic hostility (Psyc 375)
Moving toward people (Psyc 375)
Moving against people (Psyc 375)
Moving away from people (Psyc 375)
Anatomy is destiny (Psyc 375)
Ontology (Psyc 375)
Dasein (Psyc 375)
Authentic life (Psyc 375)
Becoming (Psyc 375)
Inauthentic life (Psyc 375)
Guilt (Heidegger) (Psyc 375)
Anxiety (Heidegger) (Psyc 375)
Thrownness (Psyc 375)
Binswanger, Ludwig (1881 - 1966) (Psyc 375)
Daseinanalysis (Psyc 375)
Umwelt (Psyc 375)
Mitwelt (Psyc 375)
Eigenwelt (Psyc 375)
World design (Psyc 375)
Weltanschauung (Psyc 375)
Ground of existence (Psyc 375)
Being-beyond-the-world (Psyc 375)
May, Rollo (1909 - 1994) (Psyc 375)
Human dilemma (Psyc 375)
Neurotic anxiety (Psyc 375)
Shut-upness (Psyc 375)
Self-alienation (Psyc 379)
Daemonic (Psyc 375)
Construct system (Psyc 375)
Propositional thinking (Psyc 375)
Self-characterization (Psyc 375)
Fixed-role therapy (Psyc 375)
Maslow, Abraham (1908 - 1970) (Psyc 375)
Hierarchy of needs (Hergenhahn) (Psyc 375)
Jonah complex (Psyc 375)
Self-actualization (Psyc 375)
Need-directed perception (Psyc 375)
Deficiency motivation (Psyc 375)
Being perception (Psyc 375)
Being motivation (Psyc 375)
Transpersonal psychology (Psyc 375)
Rogers, Carl (1902 - 1987) (Psyc 375)
Organismic valuing process (Psyc 375)
Need for positive regard (Psyc 375)
Unconditional positive regard (Psyc 375)
Fully functioning person (Psyc 375)
Incongruent person (Psyc 375)
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