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A hands-on approach to exploring the human mind Too often, textbooks turn the noteworthy theories, principles, and experiments of psychology into tedious discourse that even Freud would want to repress. Psych 101 cuts out the boring details and statistics, and instead, gives you a lesson in psychology that keeps you engaged - and your synapses firing. From personality quizzes and the Rorschach Blot Test to B.F. Skinner and the stages of development, this primer for human behavior is packed wit...

Feminist psychologists address how psychology can be recreated in keeping with feminist principles and practices. Although women are the major consumers of mental health services, much of psychology was shaped by the values of a male-dominated educational and research system. This book explores how widely held feminist tenets - such as empowering individuals, valuing diversity, and creating dialogue - can be integrated across the field of psychology. Chapters cover feminist theory, assessment, t...

"The Career Inside You employs the Enneagram Personality Assessment System (with its sizeable audience) to find a career specifically tailored to any reader. In addition, this guide includes quizes and interactive exercises for the reader to identify their particular personality type, a list of recommended jobs tailored to each type, and practical job-hunting tools to launch the perfect career. In geometry, an enneagram is a 9-pointed figure or star; but in our case it is a personality typing sy...

A leading neurobiologist explores the fundamental function of dendritic spines in neural circuits by analyzing different aspects of their biology, including structure, development, motility, and plasticity.Most neurons in the brain are covered by dendritic spines, small protrusions that arise from dendrites, covering them like leaves on a tree. But a hundred and twenty years after spines were first described by Ramón y Cajal, their function is still unclear. Dozens of different functions have be...

This widely used brief paperback supplement focuses on applying critical thinking techniques to standard concepts in psychology and teaches students to recognize and critically appraise pseudoscience. In particular, this text provides tips on evaluating claims that arise in discussions of psychology in the media and self-help literature. By boldly examining common misconceptions in psychology, this text helps students become more critical and discriminating consumers of psychological infor...

Covers major aspects of psychology, including its background, theoretical premises, and its development into modern science of the mind.

This practical sourcebook is packed full of fun, low-cost games and activities that encourage the development of motor skills, coordination and sensory tolerance in young children. Using materials that are readily-available in most households or that can be purchased or homemade at a very low cost, these games and activities are appropriate for all children, including those with autism, ADHD, Sensory Processing Disorder, and other learning challenges. The book includes clear descriptions of how...

This work proposes an integrative theory for understanding the major theoretical ideas being addressed in self-literature. The review of the literature provided within this integrative framework should help students and instructors to understand the complexity of self as a construct, and to understand the ramifications of this multi-faceted entity called self. Understanding self is an important first step in helping students understand others, and how and why people interact the way they do in s...

The popularity of psychological self-assessment examinations has been proven by their prevalence in the current media. These authors have spent several years collecting exams that "exist to help students begin to explore their knowledge and feelings about the field of psychology and their own role in the study of the mind," and have collected them in this manual. Activities are designed with the introductory psychology student in mind, and address a wide range of topics such as biology and behav...

This fascinating, straightforward guide to psychology shows you exactly why the mind matters. Clinical Psychologist Joni Johnston explains how your thoughts influence your disposition and affect your body, helping you develop a greater understanding of yourself and the people around you. Contents include a complete tour of the nervous system, thoughtful explanations of mental health issues and their treatments and strategies on how to use positive psychology to make your life better

Comparative psychology is the scientific study of animal cognition and behavior from an evolutionary perspective.   This two-volume handbook presents the different aspects of comparative psychology — behavior, cognition, learning, and neurophysiology — in a balanced and exhaustive manner.   There are 80 chapters across the set, divided into nine parts.   History and Methods constitute the first two parts of the handbook. Key events and basic questions (and controversies) that have shaped t...

Parents have been reporting a connection between autism and diet for decades, but for many years the science behind the connection was evasive. Today, we see a growing body of research to back up parental-reported evidence that certain foods and other environmental sources can affect the developing brains of some children, and trigger adverse behavioural episodes. Written by an autism expert who has witnessed in her own child the dramatic improvement that can be made through dietary interventi...

This is an original, idiosyncratic, genre-less work that deals with the 'space' created by the intersection of Philosophy, Religion and Psychoanalysis. McGinley is challenged by and challenges Derrideanesque deconstruction, post-Freudian Psychoanalysis, and the feminist critique/appropriation of the Freudian text. This account takes the degradation of our century to be the prophetic sign of signs which no longer permits discourse-philosophical or otherwise.

International Review of Research in Mental Retardation is an ongoing scholarly look at research into the causes, effects, classification systems, syndromes, etc. of mental retardation. Contributors come from wide-ranging perspectives, including genetics, psychology, education, and other health and behavioral sciences.

About Grief is a refreshingly down-to-earth book about an issue that blindsides many people. Written in a warm and conversational way that is, at times, deeply moving, at times, surprisingly amusing, and always practical, it covers a wide range of issues facing people in grief. Marasco and Shuff have done the footwork for readers who wish to know more about this complex subject. Using a variety of sources, including books, films, music and many hours spent talking with people in grief, the autho...