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Title The psychology book : big ideas simply explained
Edition First American edition
Published New York : DK Publishing, 2015
©2012

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Description 1 online resource (1 volume) : illustrations
Contents 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 The Psychology Book clearly and simply explains more than one hundred groundbreaking ideas of the great scientists and thinkers who contributed to the development of psychological thought. Using easy-to-follow graphics and artworks, succinct quotations, and thoroughly accessible text, The Psychology Book makes abstract concepts concrete. The Psychology Book includes innovative ideas from ancient and medieval thinkers ranging from Galen and RenE Descartes to the leaders of psychotherapy, such as Sigmund Freud and Abraham Maslow. The voices that continue to shape modern psychology, from Nico Fridja to David Rosenhan, are also included, giving anyone with an interest in psychology an essential resource to psychological thinking and history
Notes Contributors: Catherine Collin and five others. Cf. Contributors page
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from cover (Safari, viewed January 17, 2017)
Subject Psychology.
Psychologists -- Biography
Psychology -- History
psychology.
PSYCHOLOGY / Social Psychology.
Psychologists
Psychology
Genre/Form Biographies
History
Form Electronic book
Author Collin, Catherine (Clinical psychologist)
DK Publishing, Inc.
ISBN 9780756699178
0756699177
9781465439291
1465439293