All in the Mind: Psychology for the Curious
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1. Verfasser: Furnham, Adrian (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Chichester, West Sussex Wiley Blackwell [2017]
Ausgabe:3rd ed
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Title Page ; Copyright Page; Contents; Chapter Descriptions; Preface to the Third Edition; Acknowledgments; Some Quirky Quotes About Psychology; Chapter 1 Introduction: Public Beliefs About Psychology; 1.1 Introduction; 1.2 Public Ignorance About Psychology; 1.3 Tackling Student Skepticism About Psychology; Myth 1: Psychology is merely common sense; Myth 2: Psychology is not a real science; Myth 3: Psychology is not useful to society; Myth 4: Psychologists and psychotherapists are the same; Myth 5: Psychology is pretty useless - it cannot make good predictions
Myth 6: Psychology is pretty useless - everyone is unique, so how can it predict behavior?General teaching tip; 1.4 Psychology and Control; 1.5 How People Get Tricked; How to be believable; How to limit and thwart the controls; How to perform seeming miracles; What to do in case something goes wrong; How to distort memories; 1.6 Conclusion; Chapter 2 "Untangling" Myths and Psychological Realities; 2.1 Popular Myths; 2.2 Mind and Brain Myths; The brain; Body energy; Brain boosters; 2.3 Myths about Happiness; 2.4 Modern Myths of Popular Psychology; 50 great myths and why they are false
Myths about interpersonal behavior2.5 Conclusion; Chapter 3 The Names and Dates That Shaped Psychology's History and Development; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 The Psychology Thinkers and Their Ideas; Behaviorists; Developmentalists; Cognitivists; Emotion psychology; Social psychologists; The computationalists on intelligence; The biopsychologists; The perception psychologists; The personologists; The psychoanalysts and therapists; The psychopathologists; 3.3 Conclusion; Chapter 4 Science, Pseudo-Science, and Conspiracy Theories ; 4.1 Introduction
4.2 Maxims for Distinguishing Science From Non-Science Becoming a psychic or a fortune teller: 13 secrets; 4.3 Superstition vs. Science; 4.4 Common Sense; 4.5 Beware the Fortune Cookie; 4.6 Conspiracies and Cover-Ups ; 4.7 Conclusion; Chapter 5 The Man Called Freud; 5.1 Knowledge of Psychoanalysis; 5.2 Quizzes; 5.3 The Basics; 5.4 The Dynamics of Personality; 5.5 The Structure of Personality; 5.6 The Development of Personality; The Oedipus quiz (Osborne 1993); 5.7 Dreaming; 5.8 Critiques; 5.9 Freud and Falsifiability; 5.10 Freud Today; Chapter 6 A Guide Into Abnormal Psychology
6.1 Introduction6.2 Being Sane in an Insane Place; 6.3 Mental Illnesses; Schizophrenia; Psychopathy; 6.4 How Good Are You?; 6.5 Conclusion; Chapter 7 Psychology and Work; 7.1 Introduction; 7.2 Management and Common Sense; 7.3 Psychologists as Business Consultants; Diagnostic; Measurement; Instruction; Process; Systems; 7.4 The Hawthorne Effect; 7.5 Money, Motivation, and Happiness; 7.6 Stress at Work; Theories and models; Three components; 7.7 Conclusion; Chapter 8 Do Looks Matter?; 8.1 Introduction; 8.2 Defining Attractiveness; 8.3 Are Attractive People More Intelligent?. - Unfair, stereotypic, and warranting intervention
Beschreibung:1 online resource (289 p.)
ISBN:1119161673
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