| Title |
The psychology book / [contributors, Catherine Collin [and 5 others]]. |
| Description |
352 pages : illustrations (mostly color) ; 24 cm |
| Publication |
New York, New York : DK Publishing, ; 2017. |
|
©2017 |
| Note |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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. |
| Summary |
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. |
| Subject |
Psychology. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85108459
|
|
Psychologists -- Biography. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008109197
|
|
Psychology -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2010106351
|
| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/genreForms/gf2014026049
|
|
