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In recent decades, the public’s appetite for quackery covered by a veneer of psychological language has grown. Describe two examples of this “pop psychology” and then analyze the difference between psychology and pseudosciences.
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•   Example 1—Many self-help books are available in bookstores that purport to help you find personal growth and success in life.
•   Example 2—Playing on the modern consumer’s love of technology, a variety of electrical gizmos have been marketed with the promise that they will get both halves of your brain working at their peak.
•   Psychobabble is pseudoscience and quackery covered by a veneer of psychological and scientific-sounding language.
•   Scientific psychology is based on empirical evidence.
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