psychology

Traces the history of psychology from the beginning to the early twenty-first century, examining the emergence and impact of experimental psychology, and describing the development of psychological theories, brain-imaging techniques, computer simulations, and other related topics. Includes teacher notes.

Presents the history of human psychology and how human behavior is tied to the brain. Highlights information about the teenage brain and how other factors like our environment, the people around us, and being in a group can influence our psychology. Includes color illustrations, diagrams, experiments, a timeline, a glossary, and additional resources.

Looks at how the brain processes, stores, and retrieves information, covering cognitive processes that we share with animals and those that are exclusive to people.

Thirteen-year-old Kelli Paramar has always kept her ability to talk to and hear objects a secret (especially after her father walked out after she told him years ago), but when she hears about Project Epiphany, which is studying the possibility of ESP and telekinesis by doing brain scans, she is interested--though she does not entirely trust the psychology professor in charge, it is only when some of the other test subjects start to vanish, that she realizes her suspicions are fully justified, and in fact the situation may be far worse than she imagined.

Syah Walker is a peer counselor at Emdaria North Middle School and she believes that Aman, a new boy at school, needs her help--and when an emergency MindLink session allows her to Drift into his mind she finds he is suffering from severe anxiety and fear of failure, and his mental constructs are a complex of secret societies, conspiracies, and threatening monsters that she must overcome if she is to help him.

A survey of psychology originally published in 1890, discussing the topics of sensation, imagination, reasoning, the production of movement, instinct, emotions, will, hypnotism, the perception of things, space, and reality, and necessary truths and the effects of experience.