Overview
Psychology Basics highlights theories and concepts in the following areas: aging, childhood adolescence, cognition, conditioning, consciousness, depression, development, diagnosis, emotions, experimentation, intelligence, language, learning, memory, methodology, motivation, origin/definition of psychology, personality, psychobiology, psychopathology, psychotherapy, sensation and perception, sexuality, social psychology, stress, thought and treatments. Each alphabetically arranged article offers a clear discussion of its topic. Descriptive subheadings divide the text, all terminology is explained and context is provided to make the information accessible to general readers. Every entry ends with an annotated bibliography of valuable secondary sources and cross-references to related articles. Entries range from four to eight pages in length.