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Part of the fascinating Big Ideas series, this book tackles tricky topics and themes in a simple and easy to follow format. Learn about Psychology in this overview guide to the subject, great for beginners looking to learn and experts wishing to refresh their knowledge alike! The Psychology Book brings a fresh and vibrant take on the topic through eye-catching graphics and diagrams to immerse yourself in.
This captivating book will broaden your understanding of Psychology, with:
- More than 100 ground-breaking ideas in this field of science
- Packed with facts, charts, timelines and graphs to help explain core concepts
- A visual approach to big subjects with striking illustrations and graphics throughout
- Easy to follow text makes topics accessible for people at any level of understanding
The Psychology Book is the perfect introduction to the science, aimed at adults with an interest in the subject and students wanting to gain more of an overview. Here you’ll discover key concepts by psychologists who have significantly enhanced our understanding of the human mind and behavior. Learn about everyone who’s contributed to the big ideas in psychology, incorporating the ideas of today’s scientists as well those of the ancient philosophers and pioneers.
Your Psychological Questions, Simply Explained
If you thought it was difficult to learn psychology and its many concepts, The Psychology Book presents the key ideas in a clear layout. Learn about the key personalities of the 19th and 20th centuries whose work has made significant contributions to our understanding of human behavior. Fantastic mind maps and step-by-step summaries explain the line of thought clearly for students of psychology and for anyone with a general interest in understanding the human mind.
The Big Ideas Series
With millions of copies sold worldwide, The Psychology Book is part of the award-winning Big Ideas series from DK. The series uses striking graphics along with engaging writing, making big topics easy to understand.
Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780593849156 |
|---|---|
| Publisher: | DK |
| Publication date: | 06/11/2024 |
| Series: | DK Big Ideas |
| Sold by: | Penguin Group |
| Format: | eBook |
| Pages: | 360 |
| Sales rank: | 408,533 |
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Table of Contents
Introduction 10
Philosophical Roots: Psychology in the Making
The Four temperaments of personality Galen 16
There is a reasoning soul in this machine Descartes 20
Dormez! Abbé Faria 22
Concepts become forces when they resist one another Johann Friedrich Herbart 24
Be that self which one truly is Søren Kierkegaard 26
Personality is composed of nature and nurture Francis Galton 28
The laws of hysteria are universal Jean-Martin Charcot 30
A peculiar destruction of the internal connections of the psyche Emil Kraepelin 31
The beginnings of the mental life date from the beginnings of life Wilhelm Wundt 32
We know the meaning of "consciousness" so long as no one asks us to define it William James 38
Adolescence is a new birth G. Stanley Hall 46
24 hours after learning something, we forget two-thirds of it Hermann Ebbinghaus 48
The intelligence of an individual is not a fixed quantity Alfred Binet 50
The unconscious sees the men behind the curtains Pierre Janet 54
Behaviorism: Responding to Our Environment
The Sight of tasty food makes a hungry man's mouth water Ivan Pavlov 60
Profitless acts are stamped out Edward Thorndike 62
Anyone, regardless of their nature, can be trained to be anything John B. Watson 66
That great God-given maze which is our human world Edward Tolman 72
Once a rat has visited out grain sack we can plan on its return Edwin Guthrie 74
Nothing is more natural than for the cat to "love" the rat Zing-Yang Kuo 75
Learning is just not possible Karl Lashley 76
Imprinting cannot be forgotten! Kanrad Lorenz 77
Behavior is shaped by positive and negative reinforcement B.F. Skinner 78
Stop imagining the scene and relax Joseph Wolpe 86
Psychotherapy: The Unconscious Determines Behavior
The unconscious is the true psychical reality Sigmund Freud 92
The neurotic carries a feeling of inferiority with him constantly Alfred Adler 100
The collective unconscious is made up of archetypes Carl Jung 102
The struggle between the life and death instincts persists throughout life Melanie Klein 108
The tyranny of the "shoulds" Karen Horney 110
The superego becomes clear only when it confronts the ego with hostility Anna Freud 111
Truth can be tolerated only if you discover it yourself Fritz Perls 112
It is notoriously inadequate to take an adopted child into one's home and love him Donald Winnicott 118
The unconscious is the discourse of the Other Jacques Lacan 122
Man's main task is to give birth to himself Erich Fromm 124
The good life is a process not a state of being Carl Rogers 130
What a man can be, he must be Abraham Maslow 138
Suffering ceases to be suffering at the moment it finds a meaning Viktor Frankl 140
One does not become fully human painlessly Rollo May 141
Rational beliefs create healthy emotional consequences Albert Ellis 142
The family is the "factory" where people are made Virginia Satir 146
Turn on, tune in, drop out Timothy Leary 148
Insight may cause blindness Paul Watzlawick 149
Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be break-through R.D. Laing 150
Our history does not determine our destiny Boris Cyrulnik
Only good people get depressed Dorothy Rowe 154
Fathers are subject to a rule of silence Guy Corneau 155
Cognitive Psychology: The Calculating Brain
Instinct is a dynamic pattern Wolfgang Köhler 160
Interruption of a task greatly improves its chances of being remembered Bluma Zeigarnik 162
When a baby hears footsteps, an assembly is excited Donald Hebb 163
Knowing is a process not a product Jerome Bruner 164
A man with conviction is a hard man to change Leon Festinger 166
The magical number 7, plus or minus 2 George Armitage Miller 168
There's more to the surface than meets the eye Aaron Beck 174
We can listen to only one voice at once Donald Broadbent 178
Time's arrow is bent into a loop Endel Tulving 186
Perception is externally guided hallucination Roger N. Shepard 192
We are constantly on the lookout for causal connections Daniel Kahneman 193
Events and emotion are stored in memory together Gordon H. Bower 194
Emotions are a runaway train Paul Ekman 196
Ecstasy is a step into an alternative reality Mihály Csikszentmihalyi 198
Happy people are extremely social Martin Seligman 200
What we believe with all our hearts is not necessarily the truth Elizabeth Loftus 202
The seven sins of memory Daniel Schacter 208
One is not one's thoughts Jon Kabat-Zinn 210
The fear is that biology will debunk all that we hold sacred Steven Pinker 211
Compulsive behavior rituals are attempts to control intrusive thoughts Paul Salkovskis 212
Social Psychology Being in a World of Others
You cannot understand a system until you try to change it Kurt Lewin 218
How strong is the urge toward social conformity? Solomon Asch 224
Life is a dramatically enacted thing Eiving Goffman 228
The more you see it, the more you like it Robert Zajonc 230
Who likes competent women? Janet Taylor Spence 236
Flashbulb memories are fired by events of high emotionality Roger Brown 237
The goal is not to advance knowledge, but to be in the know Serge Moscovici 238
We are, by nature, social beings William Glasser 240
We believe people get what they deserve Melvin Lerner 242
People who do crazy things are not necessarily crazy Elliot Aronson 244
People do what they are told to do Stanley Milgram 246
What happens when you put good people in an evil place? Philip Zimbardo 254
Trauma must be understood in terms of the relationship between the individual and society Ignacio Martin-Baró 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 262
We become ourselves through others Lev Vygotsky 270
A child is not beholden to any particular parent Bruno Bettelheim 271
Anything that grows has a ground plan Erik Erikson 272
Early emotional bonds are an integral part of human nature John Bowlby 274
Contact comfort is overwhelmingly important Harry Harlow 278
We prepare children for a life about whose course we know nothing Françoise Dolto 279
A sensitive mother creates a secure attachment Mary Ainsworth 280
Who teaches a child to hate and fear a member of another race? Kenneth Clark 282
Girls get better grades than boys Eleanor E. Maccoby 284
Most human behavior is learned through modeling Albert Bandura 286
Morality develops in six stages Lawrence Kohlberg 292
The language organ grows like any other body organ Noam Chomsky 294
Autism is an extreme form of the male brain Simon Baron-Cohen 298
Psychology of Difference: personality and Intelligence
Name as many uses as you can think of for a toothpick J.R Guilford 304
Did Robinson Crusoe lack personality traits before the advent of Friday? Gordon Airport 306
General intelligence consists of both fluid and crystallized intelligence Raymond Cattell 314
There is an association between insanity and genius Hans J. Eysenck 316
Three key motivations drive performance David C. McClelland 322
Emotion is an essentially unconscious process Nico Frijda 324
Behavior without environmental cues would be absurdly chaotic Walter Mischel 326
We cannot distinguish the sane from the insane in psychiatric hospitals David Rosenhan 328
The three faces of Eve Thigpen & Cleckley 330
Directory 332
Glossary 340
Index 344
Acknowledgments 351