The psychology book /
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| Edition: | 1st American ed. |
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| Imprint: | New York [N.Y.] : DK Pub., 2012 (Boston, Mass. : Credo Reference, 2013.) |
| Description: | 1 online resource (155 entries) : 405 images, digital files. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Big ideas simply explained Big ideas simply explained. |
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| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/9845646 |
Table of 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 than 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 DETERMIINES 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: Françoise 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.
- Philosophical Roots: Psychology in the Making
- Behaviorism: Responding to our Environment
- Psychotherapy: the Unconscious Determiines 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
- Directory
- Glossary.