RAMOS, Rency R.

HGENPSY
MAR151 Prof. Christian de Dios

ASSIGNMENT: Definition of the examples of Pseudo-psychology.

NUMEROLOGY
is any belief in the divine, mystical relationship between a number
and one or more coinciding events. It is also the study of the
numerical value of the letters in words, names and ideas. It is
often associated with the paranormal, alongside astrology and
similar divinatory arts.

PALMISTRY
is the practice of understanding lines and other aspects of the
palms of the hands as indications of character attributes or
predictions of the person's future. It is also known as also known
as palm reading or chirology.

GRAPHOLOGY
the term used to describe the analysis of a person's handwriting
as a means of inferring stable personality characteristics or their
psychological state. It is also called as hand writing analysis, to
be able to identify the writers handwriting pattern.

PHRENOLOGY
is a pseudomedicine primarily focused on measurements of the
human skull, based on the concept that the brain is the organ of
the mind, and that certain brain areas have localized, specific
functions or modules. It is a theory of personality developed in the
18th and 19th centuries by an Austrian philosopher and
anatomist named Johann Kaspar Spurzheim and a German
doctor named Franz Josef Gall. It postulated that particular skills
or characteristics are represented by particular regions of the
brain: The size of these brain regions determines the extent of
the correlating ability or characteristic.
SOURCE/s:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numerology
https://psychologydictionary.org/palmistry/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palmistry
https://psychologydictionary.org/graphology/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphology
https://psychologydictionary.org/phrenology/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phrenology