Psychology: A Self-Teaching Guide

vanishing point, perception, 64

van Vogt, A. E., 66

variables, experimental method, 25

vase-faces illusion, perception, 63,

64

verbal intelligence, testing, 142

verification, thinking, 126

vestibular sense, balance, 54

vestibule, balance, 54

vicarious gratification, ego defense

mechanisms, 199

vicarious reinforcement, learning,

consciousness and, 81

viewpoints

abnormal behavior, 225

behavior, 9–11

vision

depth perception, 65–66

sensation, 47–49

structuralism, 4–5

voyeurism, sexual variance, 184

Watson, John B., 7, 154, 237

Watsonian slips, 234

Wechsler, David, 137, 141–142

Wechsler Intelligence Scales, 137,

141–143, 147

Wertheimer, Max, 6–7, 21, 132

will to meaning

humanistic viewpoint, 11

motivation, 102–103

will to power, Adlerian psychology,

201–202

withdrawal, marriage instability,

187

Woodford, Jack, 76–77

working memory, 85

worry, chronic, anxiety disorders,

217

Wright brothers, 132

Wundt, Wilhelm, 4–5, 6

yellow bile, humors, type-trait theo-

ries, 193

Zener cards, extrasensory perception,

68

zero correlation, correlational

method, 23

zipper function, depth perception,

65

zoophilia, sexual variance, 181

zoophobia, anxiety disorders, 217

zygote, reproductive biology, 156

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