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Stimulants are a class of drugs that increase brain activity, producing gains in alertness, attention, and overall arousal, accompanied by elevations in blood pressure and heart rate. The most widely used stimulant in the world is caffeine, followed closely by nicotine. Stimulant drugs have been prescribed for a …
On August 23, 1973, two ex-convicts armed with machine guns, explosives, and blasting caps entered one of Sweden’s largest banks and took four hostages. For the next 131 hours, these hostages, whose captors had strapped explosives to them, were held in the bank vault. When rescuers arrived six …
A stroke happens when the blood supply to a particular area of the brain is interrupted, thus depriving neurons of oxygen. There are two ways this can occur: in a hemorrhagic stroke, a blood vessel bursts, spilling blood into the space around the brain cells, causing damage. In …
A subliminal stimulus is, by definition, below the sensory threshold, and therefore cannot be perceived at all. The word is used by psychologists to refer instead to a stimulus that is presented in such a way that it is not consciously perceived, and few concepts in psychology have …
One of the most persistent brain-related myths confronted by frustrated psychology professors is the notion that humans only use 10 percent of the brain. This idea is frequently accompanied by the notion that, if we could only tap into the vast unused portions, we would develop amazing powers …
Thought Field Therapy (TFT) is a relatively new therapy, of somewhat dubious value, invented and promoted by Dr. Roger J. Callahan, clinical psychologist and author of The Five Minute Phobia Cure and (with Richard Turbo) Tapping the Healer Within: Using Thought Field Therapy to Instantly Conquer Your Fears, …
Tourette syndrome, also known as Tourette’s syndrome, is a neurological disorder characterized by both muscle tics (repeated, involuntary movements) and verbal tics (uncontrollable vocalizations). Central to the public image of the disorder, outbursts of vulgar and inappropriate language (technically known as coprolalia—literally, “talking about feces”) actually occur in …
Transcendental Meditation (TM) is a cult-like organization built around the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi and his Hindu meditation techniques. He began the organization in 1956, but it first became widely known in the 1960s, thanks to his ability to attract celebrities to his ashram (the Beatles were his followers …
Lev Vygotsky was a Russian psychologist who began his professional career just after the Bolshevik Revolution. Like all successful Soviet scholars of the time, he was a committed Marxist, and his theory of child development provides an excellent example of the influence of politics and society on scientific …
Born in Greenville, South Carolina, in 1878, John Broadus Watson eventually became one of the most influential figures in American psychology, despite a relatively short academic career and very little significant research. His influence comes as a result of an idea, most fully expressed in his 1913 paper, …
Williams syndrome is a rare genetic disorder with a rate of incidence of approximately 1 in 20,000 births. This usually results in mild to moderate mental retardation, although this is frequently accompanied by behavior patterns and abilities reminiscent of those of autistic savants. The literature on Williams syndrome …
Textbook authors frequently refer to Wundt as the father of modern, scientific psychology. This is due to his establishment at Leipzig, Germany, of the world’s first psychological laboratory. Other scientists had begun to study the mind and the nervous system prior to this, but Wundt’s program, begun in …
Abstinence-only sexual education (also “abstinence education” and “abstinence-until-marriage education”) refers to a group of sexual education curricula intended to teach children that they should abstain from sexual intimacy with another individual until they become adults and usually until they are married. Many U.S. state and local boards of …
Academic freedom refers to teachers having freedom to teach and students having freedom to learn without interference from within or from ideological conflicts outside the institution. Understanding the rights and responsibilities of teachers is essential in public discourse on academic freedom. This entry provides the historical background of …
The word accountability exploded onto the educational scene in the early 1980s following the publication of the National Commission on Excellence in Education’s A Nation at Risk report. The language of accountability has been ubiquitous ever since. Almost all popular writers on education today use the term. They …
The achievement gap is defined as the disparity that exists between the test scores of White American students and African American and Hispanic or minority students. Test results indicate that White students score higher than minority students (except Asians) on measures of achievement. This gap is measured by …
Achievement tests are used to assess the current knowledge and skills of the person being examined. Achievement tests include those administered to students in elementary or secondary schools and those administered to candidates for certification or licensure in a professional field. In elementary and secondary schools, content areas …
Action research in education can be traced back to the 1940s and the work of Stephen Corey at Teachers College, Columbia University. Corey and his collaborators maintained that every teacher is a potential researcher and that participating in group research was necessary for good teaching. Action research fell …
Active learning is an educational approach in which teachers ask students to apply classroom content during instructional activities and to reflect on the actions they have taken. Teachers who employ active learning approaches can have students solve problems, work as part of a team, provide feedback to classmates, …
The people who established the social foundations of education during the 1920s and 1930s—William H. Kilpatrick, John Dewey, George S. Counts, and Harold Rugg—were all committed to social activism. This was particularly true during the 1930s and the Great Depression, when they developed a philosophy of “social reconstruction,” …
