Psychology by Joni E. Johnston, PsyD -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Title Page Copyright Contents Introduction Part 1 Putting It in Perspective

1 A Little Psychological Insight

What Is Psychology?

Telling It Like It Is Why, Oh Why? The Exception to the Rule Becoming the New, Improved Model They’re Everywhere How They Used to Do It Psychology Today

Methods for Studying Madness

Delving into the Descriptive Is There a Relationship? The Experimental Experience

Keeping Junk Science Out

2 Multiple Perspectives of Psychology

The Seven Main Perspectives

I Was Born This Way It’s Only the Tip of the Iceberg We’re Just Rats in a Maze I Think, Therefore I Am It’s a Dog-Eat-Dog World No Man Is an Island Looking on the Bright Side Psychology in Action

3 Bio Psycho What?

It’s Evolutionary

Adapting to Changes

The Headquarters of Human Behavior

A Living Record of Time Travel Hello Central!

Getting Your Brain Organized Left Brain, Right Brain

A Leftward or Rightward Slant? Partners for Life

Meet the Mother Lobes

Front and Center Temporally Speaking Parietals Rule An Occipital Complex?

The Plastic Brain Working with Half a Brain You’ve Got Nerve Speedy Delivery Doing the Neuron Dance Synaptically Speaking

White Matter Matters!

Blame It on Your Hormones

Adrenaline Alert

Brain Booboos

4 The Chicken or the Egg?

Living with Wolves

Taming the Wild Child Looking Beneath the Surface

Nature or Nurture?

The Great Debate, Philosophically Speaking G + E = Me

Asking the Right Questions What Twins Tell Us Flip That Switch! Give Your Genes a Little Culture Family Genes and Other Heirlooms Dominating Genes

You Can’t Get Lost with This Map Too Much Information?

Don’t Blame Your Genes

Growing Up on the Wild Side

Typical Human Behavior

Vive la Différence!

Evolutionary Theory Gone Awry

Mother Nature’s Morality I Just Couldn’t Help Myself!

Baby Builds on Blueprints Is There Such a Thing as Normal?

Oh, Grow Up!

The Parental Part of the Equation

Growing Up Emotionally

Nature? Nurture? It’s Both!

5 It’s Only a Stage

Studying Bored Babies Fast Learners and Good Teachers I Second That Emotion Learning Baby Talk LADs and LASSes Listen and Learn The Child Psychologist Psych School for Kids

The Curious Child Coping with Curveballs

Performing on Stage

Sensorimotor Stage Preoperational Stage Concrete Operations Formal Operations

Speak Before You Think—or Vice Versa The Moral of the Story Empathetically Yours

Midlife Isn’t the First Crisis

Part 2 Wake Up and Smell the Coffee

6 Come to Your Senses

Creating a Sensation On the Threshold of Discovery

Star Light, Star Bright Crossing the Threshold

Get Your Signals Straight Common Senses What Stimulates You? The Big Five

Vision Hearing Smell Taste Touch The Sixth Sense?

Pain in the What?

The Placebo Effect

Starting from the Top Down and the Bottom Up

Bottom Up and Top Down Watch Out! Reality Under Construction

Life Is an Illusion Meet Ponzo the Western Illusion Pay Attention When I’m Talking to You Working Smarter, Not Harder Don’t Take It Out of Context

Context? Which Context?

7 Consciousness-Raising Time

Are You Self-Conscious?

On the Wings of Fantasy You Are What You Think

Unconscious, Highly Conscious, and Everything in Between

Automatic Pilot The File Cabinet The Secret Service The Clearinghouse

Alpha, Beta, Delta—the Sleep Fraternity

All the World’s a Stage

Doc, I Just Can’t Sleep This Is Your Brain on No Sleep I’m So-o-o Sleepy I Must Be Dreaming The Ticking of Your Internal Clock Altered Consciousness Look Deeply into My Eyes

You’re Getting Very, Very Sleepy

Don’t Bother Me, I’m Meditating I Must Be Hallucinating

We’re Not Talking Beads and Lava Lamps Here

Operating Under the Influence

Some Pills Make You Larger Risking Addiction Lethal Weapons

The Monkey on Your Back

It All Sneaks Up on You The Addictive Mind

8 Get That Through Your Thick Skull!

Helpless Learning About Learning Does the Name Pavlov Ring a Bell? Learning the Classics

Coming In on Cue Where There’s Smoke

Classical Learning Isn’t Always Fun Learning About Meaningful Relationships

Developing Discrimination

Think of the Consequences

A Cat in a Box Teaching Old Dogs New Tricks

Skinner and Reinforcing Behavior

Calling in Reinforcements

The Terminators

Nipping Bad Behaviors in the Bud Of Carrots and Sticks The Mind-Body Learning Connection The Behavior Police

The Cognitivist View

Attitudes and Expectations Experience and Interpretation Attention, Please!

Modeling Behavior Don’t Be Scared Getting Rid of Bad Habits

9 Coming to Terms with Your Memory

Kidnapped? The Memory as Court Jester Learning About Remembering from Forgetting Memory Tests The Long and Short of It

Photographer at Work The Organic Data Processor The Curious Curator

Visiting the Memory Museum

I Was Only Following Procedure Well, I Declare!

Now, Where Did I Put That Thought? Will You Gain Wisdom or Grow Senile? A Method for Remembering Hooked on Mnemonics Mnemonics Boosters Warning: Under Construction

Sleep: Memory’s Silent Partner

The 90-Minute Power Snooze The Truth About False Memories

Sorting the True from the False

From the Mouths of Babes Flashbulb Repressed Memories Memory Under Fire

Part 3 The Forces Are with You

10 What’s Your Motive?

It’s a Jungle in Here

Let’s Get Motivated

What Drives Your Body? The Brain’s Motivation Station The Hunger Center We’re All Picky Eaters Hunger Games

Mmmmmm, It’s So Appetizing!

I’ll Take Just One!

My Genes Made Me Do It!

Ready, Set, Go Driving the Sex Machine

Those Sexy Hormones! Tanking Up on Testosterone I Love You for Your Mind Dealing with Dysfunction The Fragile Sex

Oriented Toward Sex

It’s Just the Way It Is

In Search of Higher Ground

Moving on Up

The Need to Achieve What Motive Works for You?

11 Emotions in Motion

Hooked on a Feeling Adjust Your Attitude and Improve Your Love Life! Where Did These Feelings Come From? In-the-Body Experiences What We Think About Feelings The Emotional Landscape Touchy-Feely Psychology Are Your Feelings Cultured?

Guilt Trippin’

Emotional Intelligence Managing Your Everyday Moods Meet the Mood Managers Drugs and Emotions Ground to Trauma Control: Do You Read Me?

Don’t Do Me Any Favors

12 Think Before You Speak

Mind Detectives Models of the Mind Information Overload! Investigating Thoughts

Introspection Behavioral Observations Analyzing Errors Brain Scanning

Jeopardy of the Mind

I’ll Take “Building Blocks” for $200

Great Expectations

The Big Fish or the Whole Ocean?

We’re All Actors Following Scripts Be Reasonable Problem Solving

Defining Your Puzzles Desperately Seeking Solutions

Guilty Until Proven Innocent

Decisions: Older and Wiser?

Seven Strategies for Improving Your Decision-Making Batting Average

13 Don’t Blow a Fuse!

Defining Stress

Stress Is All Around Stress and the Individual

Stress Up-Close and Personal Making Change How Do You Know If You’re Stressed Out? Burning Out

Buffering Against Burnout!

I Feel Like Fighting or Fleeing But I Feel Like Tending and Befriending It’s a GAS, GAS, GAS

GASsing Up All Stations on Alert! Fighting Harder Ending in Exhaustion

Coping or Moping

Categories of Coping Focusing on the Problem Gaining the Emotional Edge Identifying Your Stressors

I Think I Can, I Think I Can The Mind-Body Immunity Connection Seeking Immunity Through Killer Ts Writing with a Capital T Playing Catch-Up

Part 4 All for One and One for All

14 Me, Myself, and I

Know Thyself

But Who Is Thyself?

Mirror, Mirror on the Wall Gender and Selfhood Gender Bending Big-Time Gender Blues It’s a Teen Thing

Getting Older and Better?

Hello, High Esteemer Safeguarding Self-Esteem

Psychic Self-Defense Sex in Overdrive

Urges “R” Us On the Mat with Freud Post-Freudian Personalities Sacrificing Identity to Escape Pain The Well-Defended Mind

The Best Defense Freeing the Psychic Balloons! The Personality Habit Who’s in the Driver’s Seat?

15 He’s Got … Personality!

Finding the Person in Personality A Picture of the Psyche Minnesota, the Personality State Can You Fool Your Psychologist? Personalities Are Like Fine Wine The Theories Behind the Tests What State Are Your Traits In? Allport’s Search for Personality The Eysenck Alternative The Personalities Behind the Theories Those Temperamental Genes

Personality by Birth Order Personality by Gender

Disturbing Personalities

We’re All a Little Bit “Off” But It’s All About Me and My Needs! How Personality Disorders Develop The Best Treatments for Personality Disorders

16 Conform to the Norm

Blame It on the Situation

Learn Your Roles Play by the Rules Adapt to the Norms

The Three R’s of Social School Warning: Check Your References Nonconformists Are Hard to Find The Shocking Truth About Obedience

When Authority Rules

Demanding Characteristics Viva la Minority!

How to Be a Rebel

Give Me Some Help Here Transforming Apathy into Action Fields of Prophecies Prejudice: Social Reality Running Amok

Part 5 Just What Is Normal, Anyway?

17 Are You Out of Your Mind?

Defining Abnormal How Psychologists Use MUUDI Sick Societies Psychology Today

Walking the Biological Beat Pulling for the Psychological Team

DSM-5: The Mental Health Catalog The DSM-5 Catalog Warning: Labels Can Be Hazardous The Gender Politics of Mental Illness Are You Insane?

Mental Illness vs. Insanity

Weapons Against Mental Dysfunction Better Living Through Chemistry

Choosing Your Drugs Carefully Cures for Kids

The Facts About ECT

When the Cure Is Worse Than the Disease

Winning the Battle with Talking Cures A Team of Professionals

Finding Your Therapy Match

Talking It Out

Short and Sweet or Long and Slow? Getting Wired

But Does It Work?

18 Affective Disorders

Bad Mood or Big Time Trouble? What Depression Feels Like Why Me? Those Good Genes Can Help Bad Mood Busters Low-Level Sadness The Post-Baby Plummet Riding the Mood Roller Coaster Moody Children and Terrible Teens Getting the Best Treatment Feeling Anxious About Everything Hit-and-Run Fear

Panic-Attack Pileup

Shut in the House All Day Meet the Phobia Family

Obsessive and Compulsive Kicked Out of the Club

Let’s Stay Together Overcoming Anxiety I Can’t Throw It Away!

19 Postcards from the Edge of Reality

The Scoop on Schizophrenia

The Split Personality

The Schizoaffective Story

Schizophrenia from the Inside Out Delusions Hallucinations Disorganized Speech Grossly Disorganized Behavior Changes in Emotions Negatively Speaking

What Causes Schizophrenia?

The Biological Connection Gene Links Prenatal Effects Effects of the Home Environment Cultural Influences When Schizophrenia Happens in Childhood

Who Gets Better? Successful Treatment for Schizophrenia

Clearing Any Remaining Confusion

The Perils of Paranoia

From Distress to Delusion

Paranoid Delusional Disorder

The Green-Eyed Monster The Strange Psyche of the Stalker The Origins of Paranoid Delusions

Treating Delusional Disorders

20 Out of Control

What’s Eating You? Wasting Away to Nothing

The Food Roller Coaster I Just Can’t Quit Eating “Comfort” Food Gone Wrong The Vicious Binge-Diet Cycle

We Look Different, but We Have a Lot in Common An Ounce of Prevention Is Worth a Pound of Cure Successfully Battling Eating Disorders

When Someone You Love Has an Eating Disorder

Eat, Drink, and Be … Addicted?

The Road to Alcoholism Why Can’t I Handle My Liquor?

Overcoming Alcohol Dependence I Can’t Control My Impulses

I Just Couldn’t Resist! Pyromania Pathological Gambling

Getting Control Over Impulse Disorders

Appendixes

A Glossary B Psychology Resources

Index About the Author

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