Abnormal Psychology
in Psychology
Published online November 2011.
Article. Subjects: psychology; cognitive psychology; developmental psychology; health psychology; history and systems in psychology; school and educational psychology; social psychology. 3121 words.
Abnormal psychology is the subdiscipline of psychology concerned with aberrant behavior—its clinical description, etiology, developmental course, assessment, and treatment. Throughout...
Academic Assessment
in The Oxford Handbook of School Psychology
February 2011; published online November 2012.
Article. Subjects: psychology; school and educational psychology. 13662 words.
The assessment of academic skills is an essential and critical component of the life of all schools. Like the assessment of other areas of functioning, assessment of academic skills needs to include...
Academic Interventions: What School Psychologists Need to Know for Their Assessment and Problem Solving Consultation Roles
in The Oxford Handbook of School Psychology
February 2011; published online November 2012.
Article. Subjects: psychology; school and educational psychology. 10037 words.
This chapter provides an overview of critical concepts about academic interventions that school psychologists can apply in their assessment (prevention and diagnosis) and problem solving consultation...
Advances in Neuroscience and Reading Disabilities
in The Oxford Handbook of School Psychology
February 2011; published online November 2012.
Article. Subjects: psychology; school and educational psychology. 11575 words.
Current neuroscience research suggests that with appropriate interventions of sufficient duration and frequency, struggling readers can access quicker, more efficient neurologic pathways for reading....
Advances in the Genetics of Deafness
in The Oxford Handbook of Deaf Studies, Language, and Education, Volume 1, Second Edition
January 2011; published online September 2012.
Article. Subjects: psychology; school and educational psychology. 8872 words.
Genetic factors are believed to account for more than half of all cases of congenital or early-onset moderate to profound deafness. The identification of several dozen genes for deafness, one of...
Aesthetics and Art
in Psychology
Published online November 2011.
Article. Subjects: psychology; cognitive psychology; developmental psychology; health psychology; history and systems in psychology; school and educational psychology; social psychology. 11088 words.
The psychology of art and aesthetics is the study of the perception and experience of art and of what is beautiful. Art is a human phenomenon, and therefore aesthetics is fundamentally a...
Affective Forecasting
in Psychology
Published online November 2011.
Article. Subjects: psychology; cognitive psychology; developmental psychology; health psychology; history and systems in psychology; school and educational psychology; social psychology. 11292 words.
In our everyday life it is common to make predictions about our future emotions. For example, we may predict that we will feel devastated if we were to break up with a significant other...
Aggression
in Psychology
Published online November 2011.
Article. Subjects: psychology; cognitive psychology; developmental psychology; health psychology; history and systems in psychology; school and educational psychology; social psychology. 7741 words.
Violence and aggression are prevalent across human cultures and daily life. One merely has to turn on the television or open an Internet browser to quickly gain access to violent images....
Alzheimer's Disease
in Psychology
Published online November 2011.
Article. Subjects: psychology; cognitive psychology; developmental psychology; health psychology; history and systems in psychology; school and educational psychology; social psychology. 3364 words.
Memory is a conserved cognitive task that has persisted for thousands of years. Early utilization may have assisted in returning to the best hunting ground or fruit grove while more...
Animal Behavior
in Psychology
Published online November 2011.
Article. Subjects: psychology; cognitive psychology; developmental psychology; health psychology; history and systems in psychology; school and educational psychology; social psychology. 9745 words.
This field encompasses the scientific study of the behavior of nonhuman animals. Niko Tinbergen, who won the Nobel Prize in 1973 (along with Karl von Frisch and Konrad Lorenz) for his...