The psychology book /
Subtitle on cover: Big ideas simply explained
[contributors, Catherine Collin [and 5 others]].
- Revised First American edition.
- 352 pages : illustrations (mostly color) ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Philosophical roots : Psychology in the making -- four temperaments of personality / There is a reasoning soul in this machine / Dormez! / Concepts become forces when they resist one another / Be that self which one truly is / Personality is composed of nature and nurture / laws of hysteria are universal / Jean-Martin Charcot -- peculiar destruction of the internal connections of the psyche / 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 / Adolescence is a new birth / 24 hours after learning something, we forget two-thirds of it / intelligence of an individual is not a fixed quantity / unconscious sees the men behind the curtains / Behaviorism : Responding to our environment -- sight of tasty food makes a hungry man's mouth water / Profitless acts are stamped out / Anyone, regardless of their nature, can be trained to be anything / That great God-given maze which is our human world / Once a rat has visited our grain sack we can plan on its return / Nothing is more natural that for the cat to "love" the rat / Learning is just not possible / Imprinting cannot be forgotten! / Behavior is shaped by positive and negative reinforcement / Stop imagining the scene and relax / Psychotherapy : The unconscious determines behavior -- unconscious is the true psychical reality / neurotic carries a feeling of inferiority with him constantly / collective unconscious is made up of archetypes / struggle between the life and death instincts persists throughout life / tyranny of the "shoulds" / superego becomes clear only when it confronts the ego with hostility / Truth can be tolerated only if you discover it yourself / It is notoriously inadequate to take an adopted child into one's home and love him / unconscious is the discourse of the other / Man's main task is to give birth to himself / good life is a process not a state of being / What a man can be, he must be / Suffering ceases to be suffering at the moment it finds a meaning / One does not become fully human painlessly / Rational beliefs create healthy emotional consequences / family is the "factory" where people are made / Turn on, tune in, drop out / Insight may cause blindness / Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be break-through / Our history does not determine our destiny / Only good people get depressed / Fathers are subject to a rule of silence / Galen -- Descartes -- Abb�� Faria -- Johann Friedrich Herbart -- S��ren Kierkegaard -- Francis Galton -- Emil Kraepelin -- William James -- G. Stanley Hall -- Hermann Ebbinghaus -- Alfred Binet -- Pierre Janet -- Ivan Pavlov -- Edward Thorndike -- John B. Watson -- Edward Tolman -- Edwin Guthrie -- Zing-Yang Kuo -- Karl Lashley -- Konrad Lorenz -- B.F. Skinner -- Joseph Wolpe -- Sigmund Freud -- Alfred Adler -- Carl Jung -- Melanie Klein -- Karen Horney -- Anna Freud -- Fritz Perls -- Donald Winnicott -- Jacques Lacan -- Erich Fromm -- Carl Rogers -- Abraham Maslow -- Viktor Frankl -- Rollo May -- Albert Ellis -- Virginia Satir -- Timothy Leary -- Paul Watzlawick -- R.D. Laing -- Boris Cyrulnik -- Dorothy Rowe -- Guy Corneau -- The The A The The The The The The The The The The The The The Cognitive psychology : The calculating brain -- Instinct is a dynamic pattern / Interruption of a task greatly improves its chances of being remembered / When a baby hears footsteps, an assembly is excited / Knowing is a process not a product / man with conviction is a hard man to change / magical number 7, plus or minus 2 / There's more to the surface than meets the eye / We can listen to only one voice at once / Time's arrow is bent into a loop / Perception is externally guided hallucination / We are constantly on the lookout for causal connections / Events and emotion are stored in memory together / Emotions are a runaway train / Ecstasy is a step into an alternative reality / Happy people are extremely social / What we believe with all our hearts is not necessarily the truth / seven sins of memory / One is not one's thoughts / fear is that biology will debunk all that we hold sacred / Compulsive behavior rituals are attempts to control intrusive thoughts / Social psychology : Being in a world of others -- You cannot understand a system until you try to change it / How strong is the urge toward social conformity? / Solomon Asch -- Life is a dramatically enacted thing / more you see it, the more you like it / Who likes competent women? / Flashbulb memories are fired by events of high emotionality / goal is not to advance knowledge, but to be in the know / We are, by nature, social beings / We believe people get what they deserve / People who do crazy things are not necessarily crazy / People do what they are told to do / What happens when you put good people in an evil place? / Trauma must be understood in terms of the relationship between the individual and society / Developmental philosophy : From infant to adult -- goal of education is to create men and women who are capable of doing new things / We become ourselves through others / child is not beholden to any particular parent / Anything that grows has a ground plan / Early emotional bonds are an integral part of human nature / Contact comfort is overwhelmingly important / We prepare children for a life about whose course we know nothing / sensitive mother creates a secure attachment / Who teaches a child to hate and fear a member of another race? / Girls get better grades than boys / Most human behavior is learned through modeling / Morality develops in six stages / language organ grows like any other body organ / Autism is an extreme form of the male brain / Psychology of difference : Personality and intelligence -- Name as many uses as you can think of for a toothpick / Did Robinson Crusoe lack personality traits before the advent of Friday? / General intelligence consists of both fluid and crystallized intelligence / There is an association between insanity and genius / Three key motivations drive performance / Emotion is an essentially unconscious process / Behavior without environmental cues would be absurdly chaotic / We cannot distinguish the sane from the insane in psychiatric hospitals / three faces of Eve / Wolfgang K��hler -- Bluma Zeigarnik -- Donald Hebb -- Jerome Bruner -- Leon Festinger -- George Armitage Miller -- Aaron Beck -- Donald Broadbent -- Endel Tulving -- Roger N. Shepard -- Daniel Kahneman -- Gordon H. Bower -- Paul Ekman -- Mih��ly Cs��kszentmih��lyi -- Martin Seligman -- Elizabeth Loftus -- Daniel Schacter -- Jon Kabat-Zinn -- Steven Pinker -- Paul Salkovskis -- Kurt Lewin -- Erving Goffman -- Robert Zajonc -- Janet Taylor Spence -- Roger Brown -- Serge Moscovici -- William Glasser -- Melvin Lerner -- Elliot Aronson -- Stanley Milgram -- Philip Zimbardo -- Ignacio Mart��n-Bar�� -- Jean Piaget -- Lev Vygotsky -- Bruno Bettelheim -- Erik Erikson -- John Bowlby -- Harry Harlow -- Franc��oise Dolto -- Mary Ainsworth -- Kenneth Clark -- Eleanor E. Maccoby -- Albert Bandura -- Lawrence Kohlberg -- Noam Chomsky -- Simon Baron-Cohen -- J.P. Guilford -- Gordon Allport -- Raymond Cattell -- Hans J. Eysenck -- David C. McClelland -- Nico Frijda -- Walter Mischel -- David Rosenhan -- Thigpen & Cleckley. A The The The The The The A A The The
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.