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The psychology book : big ideas simply explained / contributors, Catherine Collin, [and five others].
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- ISBN: 9781465458568 : PAP
- ISBN: 1465458565 : PAP
- Physical Description: 352 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits, chart ; 23 cm.
- Edition: First American Edition.
- Publisher: New York, New York : DK, 2017.
- Copyright: ©2017.
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| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary, etc.: | All the big ideas, simply explained - an innovative and accessible guide to the study of human nature The Psychology Book clearly explains more than 100 groundbreaking ideas in this fascinating field of science. |
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| Subject: | Psychology. Psychologists > Biography. Psychology > History. |
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- 1 of 1 copy available at GRPL.
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The Psychology Book : Big Ideas Simply Explained
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Table of Contents
The Psychology Book : Big Ideas Simply Explained
| Section | Section Description | Page Number |
|---|---|---|
| Introduction | p. 10 | |
| Philosophical Roots: Psychology in the Making | ||
| The Four temperaments of personality Galen | p. 16 | |
| There is a reasoning soul in this machine Descartes | p. 20 | |
| Dormez! Abbé Faria | p. 22 | |
| Concepts become forces when they resist one another Johann Friedrich Herbart | p. 24 | |
| Be that self which one truly is Søren Kierkegaard | p. 26 | |
| Personality is composed of nature and nurture Francis Galton | p. 28 | |
| The laws of hysteria are universal Jean-Martin Charcot | p. 30 | |
| A peculiar destruction of the internal connections of the psyche Emil Kraepelin | p. 31 | |
| The beginnings of the mental life date from the beginnings of life Wilhelm Wundt | p. 32 | |
| We know the meaning of "consciousness" so long as no one asks us to define it William James | p. 38 | |
| Adolescence is a new birth G. Stanley Hall | p. 46 | |
| 24 hours after learning something, we forget two-thirds of it Hermann Ebbinghaus | p. 48 | |
| The intelligence of an individual is not a fixed quantity Alfred Binet | p. 50 | |
| The unconscious sees the men behind the curtains Pierre Janet | p. 54 | |
| Behaviorism: Responding to Our Environment | ||
| The Sight of tasty food makes a hungry man's mouth water Ivan Pavlov | p. 60 | |
| Profitless acts are stamped out Edward Thorndike | p. 62 | |
| Anyone, regardless of their nature, can be trained to be anything John B. Watson | p. 66 | |
| That great God-given maze which is our human world Edward Tolman | p. 72 | |
| Once a rat has visited out grain sack we can plan on its return Edwin Guthrie | p. 74 | |
| Nothing is more natural than for the cat to "love" the rat Zing-Yang Kuo | p. 75 | |
| Learning is just not possible Karl Lashley | p. 76 | |
| Imprinting cannot be forgotten! Kanrad Lorenz | p. 77 | |
| Behavior is shaped by positive and negative reinforcement B.F. Skinner | p. 78 | |
| Stop imagining the scene and relax Joseph Wolpe | p. 86 | |
| Psychotherapy: The Unconscious Determines Behavior | ||
| The unconscious is the true psychical reality Sigmund Freud | p. 92 | |
| The neurotic carries a feeling of inferiority with him constantly Alfred Adler | p. 100 | |
| The collective unconscious is made up of archetypes Carl Jung | p. 102 | |
| The struggle between the life and death instincts persists throughout life Melanie Klein | p. 108 | |
| The tyranny of the "shoulds" Karen Horney | p. 110 | |
| The superego becomes clear only when it confronts the ego with hostility Anna Freud | p. 111 | |
| Truth can be tolerated only if you discover it yourself Fritz Perls | p. 112 | |
| It is notoriously inadequate to take an adopted child into one's home and love him Donald Winnicott | p. 118 | |
| The unconscious is the discourse of the Other Jacques Lacan | p. 122 | |
| Man's main task is to give birth to himself Erich Fromm | p. 124 | |
| The good life is a process not a state of being Carl Rogers | p. 130 | |
| What a man can be, he must be Abraham Maslow | p. 138 | |
| Suffering ceases to be suffering at the moment it finds a meaning Viktor Frankl | p. 140 | |
| One does not become fully human painlessly Rollo May | p. 141 | |
| Rational beliefs create healthy emotional consequences Albert Ellis | p. 142 | |
| The family is the "factory" where people are made Virginia Satir | p. 146 | |
| Turn on, tune in, drop out Timothy Leary | p. 148 | |
| Insight may cause blindness Paul Watzlawick | p. 149 | |
| Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be break-through R.D. Laing | p. 150 | |
| Our history does not determine our destiny Boris Cyrulnik | ||
| Only good people get depressed Dorothy Rowe | p. 154 | |
| Fathers are subject to a rule of silence Guy Corneau | p. 155 | |
| Cognitive Psychology: The Calculating Brain | ||
| Instinct is a dynamic pattern Wolfgang Köhler | p. 160 | |
| Interruption of a task greatly improves its chances of being remembered Bluma Zeigarnik | p. 162 | |
| When a baby hears footsteps, an assembly is excited Donald Hebb | p. 163 | |
| Knowing is a process not a product Jerome Bruner | p. 164 | |
| A man with conviction is a hard man to change Leon Festinger | p. 166 | |
| The magical number 7, plus or minus 2 George Armitage Miller | p. 168 | |
| There's more to the surface than meets the eye Aaron Beck | p. 174 | |
| We can listen to only one voice at once Donald Broadbent | p. 178 | |
| Time's arrow is bent into a loop Endel Tulving | p. 186 | |
| Perception is externally guided hallucination Roger N. Shepard | p. 192 | |
| We are constantly on the lookout for causal connections Daniel Kahneman | p. 193 | |
| Events and emotion are stored in memory together Gordon H. Bower | p. 194 | |
| Emotions are a runaway train Paul Ekman | p. 196 | |
| Ecstasy is a step into an alternative reality Mihály Csikszentmihalyi | p. 198 | |
| Happy people are extremely social Martin Seligman | p. 200 | |
| What we believe with all our hearts is not necessarily the truth Elizabeth Loftus | p. 202 | |
| The seven sins of memory Daniel Schacter | p. 208 | |
| One is not one's thoughts Jon Kabat-Zinn | p. 210 | |
| The fear is that biology will debunk all that we hold sacred Steven Pinker | p. 211 | |
| Compulsive behavior rituals are attempts to control intrusive thoughts Paul Salkovskis | p. 212 | |
| Social Psychology Being in a World of Others | ||
| You cannot understand a system until you try to change it Kurt Lewin | p. 218 | |
| How strong is the urge toward social conformity? Solomon Asch | p. 224 | |
| Life is a dramatically enacted thing Eiving Goffman | p. 228 | |
| The more you see it, the more you like it Robert Zajonc | p. 230 | |
| Who likes competent women? Janet Taylor Spence | p. 236 | |
| Flashbulb memories are fired by events of high emotionality Roger Brown | p. 237 | |
| The goal is not to advance knowledge, but to be in the know Serge Moscovici | p. 238 | |
| We are, by nature, social beings William Glasser | p. 240 | |
| We believe people get what they deserve Melvin Lerner | p. 242 | |
| People who do crazy things are not necessarily crazy Elliot Aronson | p. 244 | |
| People do what they are told to do Stanley Milgram | p. 246 | |
| What happens when you put good people in an evil place? Philip Zimbardo | p. 254 | |
| Trauma must be understood in terms of the relationship between the individual and society Ignacio Martin-Baró | p. 256 | |
| Developmental Philosophy: From Infant to Adult | ||
| The goal of education is to create men and women who are capable of doing new things Jean Piaget | p. 262 | |
| We become ourselves through others Lev Vygotsky | p. 270 | |
| A child is not beholden to any particular parent Bruno Bettelheim | p. 271 | |
| Anything that grows has a ground plan Erik Erikson | p. 272 | |
| Early emotional bonds are an integral part of human nature John Bowlby | p. 274 | |
| Contact comfort is overwhelmingly important Harry Harlow | p. 278 | |
| We prepare children for a life about whose course we know nothing Françoise Dolto | p. 279 | |
| A sensitive mother creates a secure attachment Mary Ainsworth | p. 280 | |
| Who teaches a child to hate and fear a member of another race? Kenneth Clark | p. 282 | |
| Girls get better grades than boys Eleanor E. Maccoby | p. 284 | |
| Most human behavior is learned through modeling Albert Bandura | p. 286 | |
| Morality develops in six stages Lawrence Kohlberg | p. 292 | |
| The language organ grows like any other body organ Noam Chomsky | p. 294 | |
| Autism is an extreme form of the male brain Simon Baron-Cohen | p. 298 | |
| Psychology of Difference: personality and Intelligence | ||
| Name as many uses as you can think of for a toothpick J.R Guilford | p. 304 | |
| Did Robinson Crusoe lack personality traits before the advent of Friday? Gordon Airport | p. 306 | |
| General intelligence consists of both fluid and crystallized intelligence Raymond Cattell | p. 314 | |
| There is an association between insanity and genius Hans J. Eysenck | p. 316 | |
| Three key motivations drive performance David C. McClelland | p. 322 | |
| Emotion is an essentially unconscious process Nico Frijda | p. 324 | |
| Behavior without environmental cues would be absurdly chaotic Walter Mischel | p. 326 | |
| We cannot distinguish the sane from the insane in psychiatric hospitals David Rosenhan | p. 328 | |
| The three faces of Eve Thigpen & Cleckley | p. 330 | |
| Directory | p. 332 | |
| Glossary | p. 340 | |
| Index | p. 344 | |
| Acknowledgments | p. 351 |
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