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Index
Title
Introduction
About This Book
Conventions Used in This Book
Foolish Assumptions
How This Book Is Organized
Icons Used In This Book
Where to Go from Here
Part I : Behaving Yourself
Chapter 1: Why Do People Do What They Do?
Playing Armchair Psychologist
One Among the Sciences
Framing with Metatheories
The Biopsychosocial Model
Branching Off
Chapter 2: Making Theories out of Chaos
Applying the Scientific Method without a Bunsen Burner
Developing a Good Theory
Researching for the Truth
Part II : Picking Your Brain
Chapter 3: Hardware, Software, and Wetware
Believing in Biology
Running Like a Well-Oiled Machine: Body Systems
Enter the Endocrine System
Superkalafragalistic Psychopharmacology
Chapter 4: Conscious Beings
Exploring the Horizons of Awareness
Altering Your Consciousness
Arriving at Work Naked: Dreams
Chapter 5: Go Ahead, Be a Little Sensitive
Building Blocks: Our Senses
Finishing the Product: Perception
Organizing by Principles
Part III : Thinking and Feeling
Chapter 6: Watching Yourself Think
What’s On Your Mind?
Plugging Your Mug into a PC
Turning Those Gears
Thinking You’re Pretty Smart
Chapter 7: How Does That Make You Feel?
Calling on Tony for Some Motivation
Launching Countless Bad Poems: Emotions
Part IV : Barking Up the Right Learning Tree
Chapter 8: Pavlov’s Dogs
Doggy Drool
Conditioning Rules!
Continuing with Contiguity
Throwing You a Bone: Why Does This Work?
Chapter 9: Thorndike’s Cats and Skinner’s Rats
Cuddling Thorndike’s Thrilling Kitties
Running Rats with Reinforcers
Avoiding Tickets with Generalization
Discriminating
Part V : Getting Personal with Social Psychology
Chapter 10: Getting into the Mood with Freud
Showing Some Personality
Your Unique Memories
Id, Ego, and Superego
It’s All About Sex!
Defensive? I’m Not Defensive!
Chapter 11: Developing an Award-Winning Personality
Knowing Who’s a Nerd
Stroking Freud’s Ego
Erikson’s Psychosocial Theory
Relating to Objects
Collecting Your Unconscious with Jung
Learning from Others
Representing Ourselves
Regulating Ourselves
Chapter 12: Catching the First Boat off Isolation Island
Feeling Self-Conscious
Identifying Yourself
Getting Attached
Cavorting with Family and Friends
Chapter 13: Knowing Thyself and Knowing Others
People Watching
Communicating Is Easier Said Than Done
Chapter 14: Conforming Like a Contortionist: Social Psychology
Playing Your Part
Ganging Up in a Group
Persuading
Being Mean
Lending a Helping Hand
Chapter 15: Growing Up with Psychology
From Conception to Birth
Going from Diapers to Drool
Getting on the Big Yellow Bus
Agonizing over Adolescence
Part VI : Knowing Whether You’re a Nut
Chapter 16: Modern Abnormal Psychology
Deciding Who’s Normal
Taxonomizing Symptoms and Disorders
Grasping for Reality
Feeling in a Funk
Being Scared
Chapter 17: Figuring Out the Criminals with Forensic Psychology
Consulting the Experts
Determining Why the Good Go Bad
Excusing or Explaining
Treating, Preventing, and Protecting
Part VII : Helping You Heal
Chapter 18: Assessing the Problem and Testing Your Psyche
What’s the Problem?
Checking Under the Hood with Psychological Testing
Testing Types
Chapter 19: Getting Comfy on the Couch
Knowing Whether One Needs It
Doing Analysis
Transferencing to the New School
Are We There Yet?
Chapter 20: Changing Behavior, Changing Thinking
Weeding out Bad Behavior with Behavior Therapy
Applying Some Soap to Your Mind with Cognitive Therapy
Playing Together Nicely: Behavior and Cognitive Therapies
Chapter 21: Being a Person Is Tough: Client-Centered, Gestalt, and Existential Therapies
Shining in the Therapist’s Spotlight
Getting It Together with Gestalt
Being at Peace with Your Being: Existential Therapy
Chapter 22: Coping with Stress and Illness
Stressing over Definitions
Coping Is No Gamble
Going Beyond Stress: The Psychology of Health
Part VIII : The Part of Tens
Chapter 23: Ten Tips for Maintaining Psychological Health
Accept Yourself
Struggle to Overcome; Learn to Let Go
Stay Connected and Nurture Relationships
Strive for Freedom and Self-Determination
Find Your Purpose and Work Toward Your Goals
Find Hope and Maintain Faith
Lend a Helping Hand
Find Flow
Enjoy the Beautiful Things in Life
Don’t Be Afraid to Change and Stay Flexible
Chapter 24: Ten Great Psychological Movies
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
A Clockwork Orange
12 Monkeys
Ordinary People
Primal Fear
What About Bob?
Girl, Interrupted
The Silence of the Lambs
Sybil
Psycho
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