The psychology book
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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New York, New York :
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2017.
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| Edition: | Revised First American edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Philosophical roots : Psychology in the making
- The four temperaments of personality / Galen
- There is a reasoning soul in this machine / Descartes
- Dormez! / Abbé Faria
- Concepts become forces when they resist one another / Johann Friedrich Herbart
- Be that self which one truly is / Søren Kierkegaard
- Personality is composed of nature and nurture / Francis Galton
- The laws of hysteria are universal / Jean-Martin Charcot
- A peculiar destruction of the internal connections of the psyche / Emil Kraepelin
- The beginnings of the mental life date from the beginnings of life / Wilhelm Wundt
- We know the meaning of "consciousness" so long as no one asks us to define it / William James
- Adolescence is a new birth / G. Stanley Hall
- 24 hours after learning something, we forget two-thirds of it / Hermann Ebbinghaus
- The intelligence of an individual is not a fixed quantity / Alfred Binet
- The unconscious sees the men behind the curtains / Pierre Janet
- Behaviorism : Responding to our environment
- The sight of tasty food makes a hungry man's mouth water / Ivan Pavlov
- Profitless acts are stamped out / Edward Thorndike
- Anyone, regardless of their nature, can be trained to be anything / John B. Watson
- That great God-given maze which is our human world / Edward Tolman
- Once a rat has visited our grain sack we can plan on its return / Edwin Guthrie
- Nothing is more natural that for the cat to "love" the rat / Zing-Yang Kuo
- Learning is just not possible / Karl Lashley
- Imprinting cannot be forgotten! / Konrad Lorenz
- Behavior is shaped by positive and negative reinforcement / B.F. Skinner
- Stop imagining the scene and relax / Joseph Wolpe
- Psychotherapy : The unconscious determines behavior
- The unconscious is the true psychical reality / Sigmund Freud
- The neurotic carries a feeling of inferiority with him constantly / Alfred Adler
- The collective unconscious is made up of archetypes / Carl Jung
- The struggle between the life and death instincts persists throughout life / Melanie Klein
- The tyranny of the "shoulds" / Karen Horney
- The superego becomes clear only when it confronts the ego with hostility / Anna Freud
- Truth can be tolerated only if you discover it yourself / Fritz Perls
- It is notoriously inadequate to take an adopted child into one's home and love him / Donald Winnicott
- The unconscious is the discourse of the other / Jacques Lacan
- Man's main task is to give birth to himself / Erich Fromm
- The good life is a process not a state of being / Carl Rogers
- What a man can be, he must be / Abraham Maslow
- Suffering ceases to be suffering at the moment it finds a meaning / Viktor Frankl
- One does not become fully human painlessly / Rollo May
- Rational beliefs create healthy emotional consequences / Albert Ellis
- The family is the "factory" where people are made / Virginia Satir
- Turn on, tune in, drop out / Timothy Leary
- Insight may cause blindness / Paul Watzlawick
- Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be break-through / R.D. Laing
- Our history does not determine our destiny / Boris Cyrulnik
- Only good people get depressed / Dorothy Rowe
- Fathers are subject to a rule of silence / Guy Corneau.
- Cognitive psychology : The calculating brain
- Instinct is a dynamic pattern / Wolfgang Köhler
- Interruption of a task greatly improves its chances of being remembered / Bluma Zeigarnik
- When a baby hears footsteps, an assembly is excited / Donald Hebb
- Knowing is a process not a product / Jerome Bruner
- A man with conviction is a hard man to change / Leon Festinger
- The magical number 7, plus or minus 2 / George Armitage Miller
- There's more to the surface than meets the eye / Aaron Beck
- We can listen to only one voice at once / Donald Broadbent
- Time's arrow is bent into a loop / Endel Tulving
- Perception is externally guided hallucination / Roger N. Shepard
- We are constantly on the lookout for causal connections / Daniel Kahneman
- Events and emotion are stored in memory together / Gordon H. Bower
- Emotions are a runaway train / Paul Ekman
- Ecstasy is a step into an alternative reality / Mihály Csíkszentmihályi
- Happy people are extremely social / Martin Seligman
- What we believe with all our hearts is not necessarily the truth / Elizabeth Loftus
- The seven sins of memory / Daniel Schacter
- One is not one's thoughts / Jon Kabat-Zinn
- The fear is that biology will debunk all that we hold sacred / Steven Pinker
- Compulsive behavior rituals are attempts to control intrusive thoughts / Paul Salkovskis
- Social psychology : Being in a world of others
- You cannot understand a system until you try to change it / Kurt Lewin
- How strong is the urge toward social conformity? / Solomon Asch
- Life is a dramatically enacted thing / Erving Goffman
- The more you see it, the more you like it / Robert Zajonc
- Who likes competent women? / Janet Taylor Spence
- Flashbulb memories are fired by events of high emotionality / Roger Brown
- The goal is not to advance knowledge, but to be in the know / Serge Moscovici
- We are, by nature, social beings / William Glasser
- We believe people get what they deserve / Melvin Lerner
- People who do crazy things are not necessarily crazy / Elliot Aronson
- People do what they are told to do / Stanley Milgram
- What happens when you put good people in an evil place? / Philip Zimbardo
- Trauma must be understood in terms of the relationship between the individual and society / Ignacio Martín-Baró
- 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
- We become ourselves through others / Lev Vygotsky
- A child is not beholden to any particular parent / Bruno Bettelheim
- Anything that grows has a ground plan / Erik Erikson
- Early emotional bonds are an integral part of human nature / John Bowlby
- Contact comfort is overwhelmingly important / Harry Harlow
- We prepare children for a life about whose course we know nothing / Franc̦oise Dolto
- A sensitive mother creates a secure attachment / Mary Ainsworth
- Who teaches a child to hate and fear a member of another race? / Kenneth Clark
- Girls get better grades than boys / Eleanor E. Maccoby
- Most human behavior is learned through modeling / Albert Bandura
- Morality develops in six stages / Lawrence Kohlberg
- The language organ grows like any other body organ / Noam Chomsky
- Autism is an extreme form of the male brain / Simon Baron-Cohen
- Psychology of difference : Personality and intelligence
- Name as many uses as you can think of for a toothpick / J.P. Guilford
- Did Robinson Crusoe lack personality traits before the advent of Friday? / Gordon Allport
- General intelligence consists of both fluid and crystallized intelligence / Raymond Cattell
- There is an association between insanity and genius / Hans J. Eysenck
- Three key motivations drive performance / David C. McClelland
- Emotion is an essentially unconscious process / Nico Frijda
- Behavior without environmental cues would be absurdly chaotic / Walter Mischel
- We cannot distinguish the sane from the insane in psychiatric hospitals / David Rosenhan
- The three faces of Eve / Thigpen & Cleckley.
- Introduction
- Philosophical roots: psychology in the making
- Behaviorism: responding to our environment
- Psychotherapy: the unconscious determines behavior
- Cognitive psychology: the calculating brain
- Social psychology: being in a world of others
- Developmental philosophy: from infant to adult
- Psychology of difference: personality and intelligence.
