| Description |
xxii, 359 pages ; 24 cm |
| Series |
--For dummies |
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--For dummies.
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| Contents |
Machine derived contents note: Introduction. -- Part I: Behaving Yourself. -- Chapter 1: Why Do People Do What They Do? -- Chapter 2: Making Theories out of Chaos. -- Part II: Picking Your Brain. -- Chapter 3: Hardware, Software, and Wetware. -- Chapter 4: Conscious Beings. -- Chapter 5: Go Ahead, Be a Little Sensitive. -- Part III: Thinking and Feeling. -- Chapter 6: Watching Yourself Think. -- Chapter 7: How Does That Make You Feel? -- Part IV: Barking Up the Right Learning Tree. -- Chapter 8: Pavlov's Dogs. -- Chapter 9: Thorndike's Cats and Skinner's Rats. -- Part V: Getting Personal with Social Psychology. -- Chapter 10: Getting into the Mood with Freud. -- Chapter 11: Developing an Award-Winning Personality. -- Chapter 12: Catching the First Boat off Isolation Island. -- Chapter 13: Knowing Thyself and Knowing Others. -- Chapter 14: Conforming Like a Contortionist: Social Psychology. -- Chapter 15: Growing Up with Psychology. -- Part VI: Knowing Whether You're a Nut. -- Chapter 16: Modern Abnormal Psychology. -- Chapter 17: Figuring Out the Criminals with Forensic Psychology. -- Part VII: Helping You Heal. -- Chapter 18: Assessing the Problem and Testing Your Psyche. -- Chapter 19: Getting Comfy on the Couch. -- Chapter 20: Changing Behavior, Changing Thinking. -- Chapter 21: Being a Person Is Tough: Client-Centered, Gestalt, and Existential Therapies. -- Chapter 22: Coping with Stress and Illness. -- Part VIII: The Part of Tens. -- Chapter 23: Ten Tips for Maintaining Psychological Health. -- Chapter 24: Ten Great Psychological Movies. -- Index |
| Summary |
What do psychologists do? Why do they do it? Does it take some sort of special aptitude to become a psychologist? How do you think psychologists feel about us asking all these questions about them? A psychologist friend of yours tells you that he is unhappy all the time and thinks it might have something to do with how he makes a living how would you help? Now substitute the word people for psychologist and you have some idea of the kinds of questions the science of psychology tries to answer questions about behavior, motive, aptitude, feeling, perception, and therapy. And while psychology may not provide definitive answers, it does offer powerful insights that can help you better understand who you are and why you feel and act the way you do. Psychology For Dummies is a fun, user-friendly guide to the basics of human behavior and mental processes. In plain English and using lots of everyday examples, psychologist Dr. Adam Cash cuts through the jargon to explain what psychology is all about and what it tells us about why we do the things we do |
| Notes |
"Your fun and easy guide to the basics of human behaviour"--Cover |
| Subject |
Human behavior.
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Psychology.
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| LC no. |
2002103273 |
| ISBN |
0764554344 paperback |
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