Psychology - M - Oxford Bibliographies
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM)
Thomas Widiger
Subject: Psychology »
Date Added: 2011-11-29
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) Introduction Mental health professionals and scientists must have a common language...
Educational Settings, Assessment of Thinking in
Gregory Schraw
Subject: Psychology »
Date Added: 2011-11-29
Assessment of Thinking in Educational Settings Introduction The study of thinking and thinking skills is one of the most important topics in ed...
Embodiment and Embodied Cognition
Stephen Flusberg, Lera Boroditsky
Subject: Psychology »
Date Added: 2011-11-29
Embodiment and Embodied Cognition Introduction Embodied cognition (EC) is a movement within the field of cognitive science that seeks to explor...
Evolutionary Psychology
Zachary Hohman, Bruce Ellis
Subject: Psychology »
Date Added: 2011-11-29
Evolutionary Psychology Introduction Evolutionary psychology is the application of the principles and knowledge of evolutionary biology to psyc...
Eyewitness Testimony
Gary Wells, Laura Smalarz
Subject: Psychology »
Date Added: 2011-11-29
Eyewitness Testimony Introduction Eyewitness testimony is critically important to the justice system. Indeed, it is necessary in all criminal t...
Factor Analysis
Ronald D. Porter, Leandre R. Fabrigar
Subject: Psychology »
Date Added: 2012-11-21
Factor Analysis Introduction Factor analysis is a term used to refer to a set of statistical procedures designed to determine the number of di...
Five-Factor Model of Personality
Christopher J. Soto, Joshua J. Jackson
Subject: Psychology »
Date Added: 2013-02-26
Five-Factor Model of Personality Introduction The five-factor model of personality (FFM) is a set of five broad trait dimensions or domains, o...
Fundamental Attribution Error/Correspondence Bias
Glenn D. Reeder
Subject: Psychology »
Date Added: 2013-03-19
Fundamental Attribution Error/Correspondence Bias Introduction The fundamental attribution error (FAE) suggests that social perceivers attribu...
Gambler's Fallacy
Ulrike Hahn
Subject: Psychology »
Date Added: 2011-11-29
Gambler’s Fallacy Introduction The Gambler’s Fallacy is a mistaken belief about sequences of random events. Observing, for example, a long run...
Happiness
Shigehiro Oishi
Subject: Psychology »
Date Added: 2011-11-29
Happiness Introduction In psychological science, “subjective well-being” is the term most often used in place of the popular term “happiness.” ...
Health Psychology
Regan Gurung
Subject: Psychology »
Date Added: 2011-11-29
Health Psychology Introduction Health psychology is an interdisciplinary subspecialty of psychology dedicated to promoting and maintaining heal...
History of Psychology
David C. Devonis, Wade Pickren
Subject: Psychology »
Date Added: 2013-02-26
History of Psychology Introduction At its inception as a specialty within psychology in the first decades of the 20th century, the history of ...
Hypnosis
Steven Jay Lynn, Liam Condon, Michelle Accardi, Colleen Cleere, Anne Malaktaris, Jaime Benjamin
Subject: Psychology »
Date Added: 2012-10-25
Hypnosis Introduction From the days of Franz Mesmer (b. 1734–d. 1815) to the present, the seemingly profound alterations in consciousness that...
Implicit Association Test (IAT)
Steven Lehr, Mahzarin Banaji
Subject: Psychology »
Date Added: 2011-11-29
The Implicit Association Test (IAT) Introduction Starting in the 1970s, as microcomputers made possible the measurement of mental computations ...
Industrial and Organizational Psychology
Kurt Kraiger
Subject: Psychology »
Date Added: 2011-11-29
Industrial and Organizational Psychology Introduction Industrial/organizational (I/O) psychology addresses individuals’ attitudes, behaviors, c...
Intelligence
Amber Esping, Jonathan Plucker
Subject: Psychology »
Date Added: 2013-02-26
Intelligence Introduction What is human intelligence? There is no indisputable answer to this fundamental question, and there will not be an a...
Language
Cindy K. Chung, James Pennebaker
Subject: Psychology »
Date Added: 2011-11-29
Language Introduction Although language is the primary medium by which we communicate with others and reveal our thoughts and feelings, remarka...
Law, Psychology and
Edie Greene, Kirk Heilbrun, Anna Heilbrun
Subject: Psychology »
Date Added: 2013-03-19
Psychology and Law Introduction The field of psychology and law involves the application of scientific, clinical, and policy aspects of psycho...
Learned Helplessness
J. Bruce Overmier
Subject: Psychology »
Date Added: 2013-03-19
Learned Helplessness Introduction The term “learned helplessness” appears in about three thousand articles in the PsycINFO database, applying...
Life-Span Development
Kathleen Stassen Berger
Subject: Psychology »
Date Added: 2011-11-29
Life-Span Development Introduction Life-span development studies human development from the moment of conception to the last breath. The goal i...