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Brainwashing is a term frequently used in the popular media to refer to a phenomenon known among psychologists as coercive persuasion. Essentially, the term refers to a set of strategies used to forcibly change someone’s belief system, so they will adhere to a new set of beliefs and …
As we have gained more knowledge about the functioning of the brain and the key role played by neurotransmitters in that functioning, it has become clear that a variety of psychological disorders, including depression, schizophrenia, various anxiety disorders, and many others, are associated with abnormal levels of specific …
Arguably the best-known linguistics professor in the world, Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor Noam Chomsky has become better known in his later years as a political commentator and dissident. In 1957, at the age of 29, he published a monograph entitled Syntactic Structures, which radically altered the study …
Dr. Chopra is the leading advocate of ayurvedic medicine, also known simply as ayurveda, a healing system said by its followers to be the ancient medicine of India and to represent practices that are over 5,000 years old. In fact, most of it appears to date back only …
Although behavior therapists tend to focus attention on external stimuli and consequences as causes of maladaptive behavior, they also recognize that many disorders, including depression and anxiety, can be rooted in how clients perceive themselves and the world around them. As cognition (thinking) is a form of behavior, …
Leon Festinger (1919–1990) believed that individuals strive for internal consistency, with thoughts, beliefs, and feelings matching one’s actions. In everyone’s life, however, there will inevitably be occasions when actions are not consistent with beliefs. On these occasions, according to Festinger, an individual experiences cognitive dissonance, or discomfort, caused …
Cold reading is a technique used by mediums, psychics, faith healers, and fortune-tellers to persuade complete strangers that they know all about them. Doing a cold reading does not require any advance information about the person, as opposed to a hot reading. A hot reading involves finding out …
“There are three kinds of lies: Lies, damned lies, and statistics.” That famous quotation is frequently attributed to Mark Twain but was actually (according to Twain himself, anyway) the work of British prime minister Benjamin Disraeli. Whoever said it, it remains familiar because it captures a widespread suspicion …
Craniosacral therapy (also known as cranial therapy) is a fringe approach whose advocates claim that it is effective as a treatment for attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), chronic fatigue, disorders of the central nervous system, and a variety of physical illnesses. Craniosacral therapy purportedly involves the gentle movement of the …
Any substance that slows down normal brain function and reduces overall central nervous system (CNS) arousal is a depressant. Most depressants appear to act on the brain by affecting levels of the neurotransmitter gamma-amino butyric acid (GABA), a neurotransmitter that serves a primarily inhibitory function in the brain …
In 1950, a pulp science-fiction writer named L. Ron Hubbard created the most successful psychotherapy-themed cult of all when he published a book called Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health. In it, he claims to have done extensive research into the human mind, resulting in the discovery …
At approximately 3 a.m. on March 13, 1964, in New York City, thirty-eight people watched from their apartments as a young woman named Kitty Genovese was stabbed to death outside. None of them moved to help her, despite the fact that her murder was a slow one, in …
Of the various known organic (as opposed to social) causes of mental retardation, the genetic mutation known as Down syndrome is second only to fetal alcohol syndrome in prevalence and incidence. Ordinarily, the gametes (ovum and sperm) each possess 23 chromosomes, which results in the usual human complement …
Published by the American Psychiatric Association, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition (DSM-IV) is the standard reference book used by American psychiatrists and clinical psychologists for classifying and diagnosing mental disorders. The current edition, the DSM-IV, was published in 1994 and revised slightly in …
Public Law 94-142 (P.L. 94-142), the Education for All Handicapped Children Act, is the only piece of federal legislation widely known among psychologists and their students by its numerical designation, perhaps because its impact on the nation’s educational practices and on the profession has been so profound. Prior …
Emotional intelligence (sometimes referred to as EQ) is the ability to perceive, understand, express, and control emotions. The concept was popularized in a 1995 book by Daniel Goleman, in which he argues that emotional intelligence counts more for success in life than IQ does. The book was specifically …
Epilepsy is a brain disorder in which the primary symptom is the experience of seizures. In a seizure a cluster of neurons in the brain begins to signal abnormally; frequently this involves a synchronous pattern of firing by cells that would not normally be firing in unison. This …
As she walked in a park in 1988, Francine Shapiro noticed that the anxious thoughts that were troubling her became less of a burden when her eyes spontaneously shifted back and forth. Based on this experience, she developed an unusual treatment for anxiety. Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing …
Francis Galton’s influence on modern psychology, and on scientific inquiry in general, cannot be overstated. His research, discoveries, and inventions included modern meteorology, as he discovered high and low pressure systems and fronts and invented the weather map, the use of fingerprints for identification, correlation analysis, the normal …
Disenchanted with the testing industry’s focus on intelligence as a single, unitary quality that can be captured in a single number, Harvard psychologist Howard Gardner proposed in 1983 a radically different view of intelligence: the theory of multiple intelligences. Gardner’s theory is based loosely upon what is known …
