| Part 1: Putting It in Perspective |
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1 A Little Psychological Insight Want a basic overview of the field of psychology and how it developed? Here's where to start! |
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2 Bio Psycho What? Take a quick tour of the human thinking machine--the brain--and learn how it functions. |
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3 The Chicken or the Egg? Ever wonder how much of who you are comes from your genes and how much from your environment? This chapter will clue you in on the old nature vs. nature debate. |
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4 It's Only a Stage Just how do people develop their personalities? Here's where to turn to learn about the theories of childhood development, from learning how to talk to learning how to think. |
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| Part 2: Wake Up and Smell the Coffee |
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5 Come to Your Senses Psychologists need to know more than what we feel; they need to understand the mechanics of how we perceive and how we process our perceptions. Here's where you'll learn the basics of how your senses work. |
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6 It's Consciousness-Raising Time! Your brain's the hardware of your psychological system; your "mind" is more like the software. Look here for insights on how your mind works, and why it's more than just a bunch of randomly firing Synapses. |
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7 Get That Through Your Thick Skull! Discover the magical principles of learning, and how you can use them to overcome the negatives in your personal life. |
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8 Coming to Terms with Your Memory What's the difference between long-term and short-term memory? How about repressed memories and amnesia? If you want to discover just how your memory works, you'll find out here! |
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| Part 3: The Forces Are with You |
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9 What's Your Motive? In this chapter, you'll explore the mind-motive connection to discover what makes you do what you do, and how to harness your motivations to make them work for you. |
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10 Emotions in Motion Explore the psychology of emotions; how we feel and express them, how our culture influences them, what purpose they serve, and how we can handle our own moods more effectively. |
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11 Think Before You Speak Get ready to explore how people use mental scripts to figure out the mysteries of daily life, and how mental shortcuts can help solve problems more efficiently. |
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12 Get a Grip The stress here is on stress, and how to keep it from taking over your life! |
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| Part 4: Self and Otherness |
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13 Me, Myself, and I Self-concept, self-esteem, self-discovery ... this chapter is all about the image you build about yourself, for good or ill, and how you can make it better. |
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14 The Search for Intelligent Life Learn here about the difference between intelligence and I.Q., and about how your "smarts" can be of many different kinds. |
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15 He's Got ... Personality! From ink blots to the MMPI, here's where you'll learn about the various elements that make up the human personality, and how psychologists can test for personality types. |
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16 Psychic Self-Defense From Freud to Jung, and the theorists who carry on in their vein, learn the ropes of psychodynamic personality theories and how analysts use them. |
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| Part 5: Just What Is Normal, Anyway? |
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17 Are You Out of Your Mind? How are psychiatric diagnoses of normalcy and abnormality made? Here's where to turn to learn the meanings behind the labels, and the dangers of applying psychological judgements. |
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18 Mood Swingers and Scaredy Cats Are you depressed or just plain moody? Here's an exploration of the many shades of "the blues." |
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19 Postcards from the Edge of Reality Learn about one of the most puzzling of the mental illnesses--schizophrenia--and how it's treated. |
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20 Outta Control! There's a fine line between normal behavior and behavior that goes out of control. Here's where you'll learn what happens when people cross that line, and what can be done about it. |
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21 Better Living Through Chemistry Discover the pharmaceutical side of coping with mental illness, and how medication can often bring relief. |
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22 Just Keep Talkin' Sometimes it just helps to talk things through--that's what talk therapy is all about. In this chapter, you'll discover how it works. |
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23 What You Can Change, and What You Can't Examine the basics of the trend to self-improvement, and discover just how much of your feelings and relationships are subject to conscious change. |
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| Part 6: Can't We All Just Get Along? |
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24 You Can't Live with 'Em Take a look at how social settings influence how we think, feel, and act, and discover how we all use our social world to provide clues to guide our behavior. |
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25 You Can't Live With 'Em In this chapter, we'll look at the power of our relationships, the myths and realities of attraction, the secret to long-term love, and a phenomenon that throws evolutionary psychologists for a loop: altruism. |
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| Appendixes |
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| Appendix A |
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| Appendix B |
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| Index |
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