The Rough Guide to Psychology An Introduction to Human Behaviour and the Mind (Rough Guides)

INDEX

Little Albert 14, 110
Locke, John 8
Loftus, Elizabeth 256, 257
loneliness 85, 141
longitudinal research 5
Lorenz, Konrad 136
Los Horocones 15
love 149–151
love hormone 138
lying 208, 259–262

M
magnetic resonance imaging 43
manic depression 328
MAOA gene 259
Margaret Thatcher illusion 145
Maslow, Abraham 346
mass hysteria 248–249
maximizers 89
McGurk effect 63
meditation 49
medulla 38
memory 25, 32, 48, 52, 74–88, 122, 126,
129, 330
false memories 76, 256–257
implicit memories 75
working memory 74
mental accounting 276
Mental Health Act 17
mental performance 55
mental philosophy 10
metaphor 165–166
mid brain 38
Milgram, Stanley 244–246
Mindfulness-Based Cognitive therapy
349
Mirror neurons 142–143
Modafinil 48
Molaison, Henry 79
money 274–281
monosodium glutamate 65

moral development 119–120

moral dumbfounding 230

morality 228–235

Moro reflex 109

mortality 227–228

movement 55, 67

multiple personality disorder 183–185

murder 54

muscle spindles 68

music 114

Myers-Briggs Type Indicator 264

N

narcissism 124

Narcissistic Personality Inventory,

the 124

negativity bias 289

nervous system 331

neuroplasticity 45

neuropsychology 41, 79

neuroscience 18

neuroticism 176–178, 353

non-verbal behaviour 31

nostalgia 85

null hypothesis 5

O

obedience 244

obesity 309–312

object permanence 118

obsessive compulsive disorder

329–331

occipital cortex 36

OCD 329–331

olfactory bulb 64

openness 179

optic ataxia 60

organizational psychology 17

orgasm 152–154

out-group prejudice 215, 216, 219

overconfidence 277