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Psychology For Dummies

Psychology For Dummies


By Adam Cash

ISBN: 978-0-7645-5434-6
Format: Paper
Pages: 384 Pages
Pub. Date: May 2002

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Price: $19.99
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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.

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