(H/B) THE PSYCHOLOGY BOOK

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The Psychology Book clearly explains more than 100 groundbreaking ideas in this fascinating field of science. How does the brain remember faces? What makes us choose one decision over another? Where does language come from?
With the use of powerful and easy-to-follow images, quotations from all the major thinkers, and explanations that are easily understandable, this book demystifies hard-to-grasp concepts and shows how these have shaped our knowledge of the human mind. All the schools of psychology are covered from cognitive to behavioural psychology making this ideal for students or for anyone with a general interest in this popular area. If you're fascinated by the human mind then The Psychology Book will get you thinking. (From the publisher)

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INTRODUCTION
PHILOSOPHICAL ROOTS-PSYCHOLOGY IN THE MAKING
The 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
The laws of hysteria are universal
A peculiar destruction of the internal connections of the psyche
The beginnings of the mental life date from the beginnings of life
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
The intelligence of an individual is not a fixed quantity
The unconscious sees the men behind the curtains
BEHAVIOURISM-RESPONDING TO OUR ENVIRONMENT
The 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 than for the cat to "love" the rat
Learning is just not possible
Imprinting cannot be forgotten!
Behaviour is shaped by positive and negative reinforcement
Stop imagining the scene and relax
PSYCHOTHERAPY-THE UNCONSCIOUS DETERMINES BEHAVIOUR
The unconscious is the true psychical reality
The neurotic carries a feeling of inferiority with him constantly
The collective unconscious is made up of archetypes
The struggle between the life and death instincts persists throughout life
The tyranny of the "shoulds"
The 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
The unconscious is the discourse of the Other
Man's main task is to give birth to himself
The 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
The 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
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
A man with conviction is a hard man to change
The 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
The seven sins of memory
One is not one's thoughts
The fear is that biology will debunk all that we hold sacred
Compulsive behaviour 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 towards social conformity?
Life is a dramatically enacted thing
The more you see it, the more you like it
Who likes competent women?
Flashbulb memories are fired by events of high emotionality
The 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 [...]
DEVELOPMENTAL PHILOSOPHY-FROM INFANT TO ADULT
PSYCHOLOGY OF DIFFERENCE-PERSONALITY AND INTELLIGENCE
DIRECTORY
GLOSSARY