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Psychology and You An Informal Introduction

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Produktdetails

Einband

Taschenbuch

Erscheinungsdatum

01.04.2007

Verlag

Wiley

Seitenzahl

272

Maße (L/B/H)

24,6/17,2/1,6 cm

Gewicht

481 g

Auflage

3rd edition

Sprache

Englisch

ISBN

978-1-4051-2698-4

Beschreibung

Produktdetails

Einband

Taschenbuch

Erscheinungsdatum

01.04.2007

Verlag

Wiley

Seitenzahl

272

Maße (L/B/H)

24,6/17,2/1,6 cm

Gewicht

481 g

Auflage

3rd edition

Sprache

Englisch

ISBN

978-1-4051-2698-4

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Libri GmbH
Europaallee 1
36244 Bad Hersfeld
DE

Email: Libri GmbH

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  • Produktbild: Psychology and You

  • Note on References xii

    List of Exercises xiii

    List of Figures xiv

    List of Tables xvi

    Preface and Acknowledgements to the Third Edition xvii

    1: Introduction: Beginning to Understand You 1

    What is psychology? 2

    Psychology and common sense 4

    The psychologist's approach 7

    Are psychologists devious experimenters? 8

    The psychological experiment 8

    What we expect affects what we see 10

    Experiments are not enough 10

    2: Body Language 13

    Does body language come naturally? 14

    Facial expressions 14

    Gestures and postures 21

    Odours as body language 24

    Touching 25

    Lies and deceit 26

    Improving body language 27

    3: Your Personality 29

    Everyone has personality 30

    It depends on your point of view 30

    The trait approach 31

    Eysenck's theory: three critical dimensions 32

    From description to explanation 33

    Am I me or am I the situation? The problem of consistency 36

    Cognitive perspectives: it depends on how you look at it 38

    Personal construct theory 38

    Attribution: answering the question 'why?' 43

    Attributions and psychological distress 44

    Methods for assessing personality 46

    4: Your Sex: on Being Male Or Female 48

    Sex or gender? 49

    Biological influences 49

    Hormones and behaviour 49

    Sex and gender identity 51

    From birth to maturity 55

    Are gender differences changing? 56

    Gender differences in school and afterwards 59

    5: You and Others 62

    Social roles 63

    What we do and what we think 64

    Stereotypes and prejudice 65

    How do others influence us? 69

    Conformity 70

    Obedience and authority 73

    Violence and the mass media 74

    The power of social influence 77

    6: Your Emotions 79

    Love and attachment 81

    The nature of infant love 82

    Adult attachment and love 83

    The nature of adult love 84

    Types and styles of love 87

    Anger and aggression 88

    Aggression hot and cold 89

    The nature of anger 90

    What is a provocation? 91

    Features of anger 92

    Can we treat anger? 95

    7: Your Brain 97

    What's in your head? 98

    How do we know which bits of brain do what? 102

    Cells in the central nervous system 104

    Two hemispheres, one brain 108

    Feeling emotional 109

    Consciousness 110

    Repairing damage 112

    8: Your Health 113

    Psychology, health and illness 114

    Being healthy 115

    Preventing illness 116

    Becoming ill 119

    Being treated 123

    9: Your Development Across the Lifespan 126

    Studying development 127

    Development in infancy 128

    'Theory of mind': perceiving emotions in others 132

    Language development 133

    Social cognition in schoolchildren 137

    Adolescence and adulthood 140

    10: Psychological Problems 144

    Anxiety and related problems 145

    The complex nature of fear and anxiety 147

    Sources of phobias and anxiety 147

    The treatment of fear and anxiety 149

    Social anxiety 150

    Schizophrenia 151

    Personality disorders 152

    Keeping critical about methods of classification: some limitations of diagnostic systems for personality disorder 155

    11: Your View of the World: Perception and Thinking 159

    Perception is more than sensation 160

    Attention affects perception 164

    Memory mechanisms 166

    Thinking and the nature of thoughts 169

    Differences in thinking and creativity 172

    12: Learning About Your World 174

    Learning by linking 175

    Learning by consequences 178

    Learning what to expect 180

    Learning from others 182

    Consciousness, intelligence and learning 183

    13: You and other Animals 189

    Can other animals think? 190

    Intelligence, tool-use and culture 192

    Is language unique to humans? 194

    Sensory sensitivity in other animals 195

    Awareness and consciousness 196

    Human uses of other animals 198

    People with other animals 199

    14: What Psychologists Can Do - for You? 202

    Becoming a psychologist 203

    Teachers and researchers 203

    Clinical and counselling psychologists 204

    Health psychologists 206

    Educational psychologists 207

    Forensic psychologists 209

    Occupational psychologists 211

    Sport and exercise psychologists 211

    Psychologists in other areas 212

    Glossary 214

    References 224

    Index 237