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Index
Title Page
Copyright Page
Introduction
Precursors of psychology
Mind and brain
Neuroscience
Hypnosis
Medical conditions
Beginnings of experimental psychology
Pavlov’s dogs
A wide range
Biological psychology
The brain and nervous system
Neural pathways
Sensory processes
Areas of the brain
Brain damage and what it can tell us
Consciousness
What’s happening in the conscious brain?
Waking and sleeping
What happens when we are sleeping?
Motivation: needs and drives
Behaviourism
An objective approach
Classical conditioning
Puzzle boxes
Positive and negative conditioning
The Law of Effect
Behaviourist Manifesto
The Little Albert experiment
A blank slate
A behaviourist’s guide to bringing up baby
Experimental ethics
Cognitive behaviourism
A single lesson
Radical behaviourism
Operant conditioning
Positive and negative reinforcement
Skinner boxes
Animal experimentation
Skinner’s teaching machine
Rewards and punishments
Imprinting
Behaviourism vs. instinct
Cognitive psychology
Memory
Memorizing and recalling
Forgetting
The Zeigarnik effect
Long-term and short-term memory
‘Assemblies’ of brain cells
Learning language
Problem-solving
Perception
Gestalt psychology
The Gestalt laws of perception
Pattern recognition
Recognizing faces
Processing information
The magical number 7
Chunking
Attention
The cocktail party problem
Filter models
Different kinds of memory
Recalling memories
Seven sins of memory
Unreliable memories
Illusions and paradoxes
Decision making
Psychoanalysis and psychodynamics
The talking cure
The unconscious
Drives
Psychosexual stages of development
Repression
Analysis
Free association
Dreams and dream analysis
The collective unconscious
Archetypes
Inferiority complex
Psychoanalysis and children
True self and False self
Humanistic psychoanalysis
A meaning in life
Existential psychotherapy
Gestalt therapy
‘The other’
The myth of mental illness
Anti-psychiatry
Transactional analysis
Social psychology
Performance
Social loafing
Working in groups
Field theory
Teams and leaders
A desire to conform
The power of conformity
Groupthink
Ingroups and outgroups
Just following orders?
Electric shock experiments
Obedience and responsibility
The Stanford prison experiment
The power of social situation
Aggression and antisocial behaviour
Altruism and prosocial behaviour
The bystander effect
Attitudes
Persuasion
Cognitive dissonance
When prophecy fails
The $1 or $20 experiment
Interpersonal attraction
Long-term relationships
Developmental psychology
Nature vs. nurture
Attachment and separation
Different kinds of attachment
The Strange Situation experiment
Cupboard love?
Parent or caregiver
Psychological stages
Stages of cognitive development
Development of concept of self
The child as scientist
The child as apprentice
Cultural and historical development
Stages of psychosocial development
Moral development
Social learning theory
The Bobo doll experiment
Learning from the media
Gender development
The Baby X experiments
Adolescence
Taking responsibility
Middle age
Old age
The ‘Ages of me’
Psychology of difference
Intemgence
General vs. specific intelligence
Is there more than one kind of intelligence?
Reinforcing cultural and racial prejudices
Fluid or crystallized?
Multiple intelligences
Is intelligence fixed, or can it be altered?
Personality
Traits
Extraversion and neuroticism
The Big Five
Personal construct theory
Personality and situation
Multiple personalities
Emotions and moods
Which experience comes first – emotional or bodily?
Normality and abnormality
Mental disorders
Classification of mental disorders
Schizophrenia
Substance dependence and abuse
Anxiety disorders
Mood and personality disorders
Happiness is not normal
Crazy people?
Problems in living
Telling the difference
Clinical psychology
Psychiatry vs. psychology
Treatments and therapies
Physical treatments
Psychoanalysis and psychotherapy
Criticism of psychoanalysis
Humanistic psychology
Hierarchy of human needs
Person-centred therapy
Behavioural therapy
Reciprocal inhibition
Systematic desensitization
Aversion therapy
Rational emotive Behaviour therapy
A cognitive approach
Cognitive–behavioural Therapy
Automatic thoughts
Learned helplessness theory
Positive psychology
The flow
Mindfulness and meditation
The relevance of psychology
Clinical and health psychology
Counselling and guidance
Criminal psychology
Organizational psychology
Advertising and the media
Education
Management and human resources
Occupational psychology
Sports psychology
Psychology today and tomorrow
Pop psychology
Glossary
Index
Acknowledgements
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