How different are men and women's brains? Does altruism really exist? Are our minds blank slates at birth? And do dreams reveal our unconscious desires? If you have you ever grappled with these concepts, or tried your hand as an amateur psychologist, "50 Psychology Ideas You Really Need to Know" could be just the book for you. Not only providing the answers to these questions and many more, this series of engaging and accessible essays explores each of the central concepts, as well as the arguments of key thinkers. Author Adrian Furnham offers expert and concise introductions to emotional behaviour, cognition, mental conditions - from stress to schizophrenia - rationality and personality development, amongst many others. This is a fascinating introduction to psychology for anyone interested in understanding the human mind.
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| Introduction | |
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| A Diseased Mind | |
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| Abnormal behaviour | |
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| Placebo effect | |
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| Kicking the habit | |
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| Lost touch | |
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| Not neurotic, just different | |
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| Seem sane | |
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| Stress | |
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| Illusion and Reality | |
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| Visual illusions | |
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| Psychophysics | |
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| Hallucinations | |
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| Delusions | |
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| Are you conscious? | |
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| Hearts and Minds | |
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| Positive psychology | |
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| Emotional intelligence | |
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| What are emotions for? | |
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| Cognitive therapy | |
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| Individual Differences | |
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| IQ and you | |
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| Flynn effect | |
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| Multiple intelligences | |
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| Cognitive differences | |
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| Personality and Society | |
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| The Rorschach inkblot test | |
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| Detecting lies | |
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| Authoritarian personality | |
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| Obedience to authority | |
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| Fitting in | |
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| Self-Sacrifice or selfishness | |
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| Cognitive dissonance | |
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| Gambler's fallacy | |
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| Rationality and Problem-Solving | |
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| Judgement and problem-solving | |
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| Too much invested to quit | |
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| Rational decision-making | |
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| Remembrance of things past | |
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| Cognition | |
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| What the witness saw | |
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| Artificial intelligence | |
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| Perchance to dream | |
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| Try to forget | |
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| Tip-of-the-tongue phenomenon | |
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| Development | |
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| Psychosexual stages | |
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| Cognitive stages | |
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| Ducks in a row | |
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| Tabula rasa | |
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| Learning | |
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| Stay hungry | |
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| Behaviourism | |
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| Reinforcement schedules | |
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| Mastering complexity | |
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| The Brain | |
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| Phrenology | |
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| Breaking up is hard to do | |
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| Aphasia | |
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| Dyslexia | |
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| Who's that? | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Index | |
ADRIAN FURNHAM is Professor of Psychology at University College, London, UK. He is on the editorial board of a number of journals, has received many awards, and was recognized as the most productive psychologist in the world from 1980 to 1989. He is the author of over 600 journal articles and more than 40 books, including successful, popular management books. He acts as a consultant to a number of bodies including HM Government, British Airways, HBOS and SAP and also a number of multinational corporations. He writes regular columns in The Daily Telegraph and The Sunday Times and is a frequent contributor to BBC radio and television. nbsp; EVGENIYA PETROVA studies Psychology at the University of Bath. She has completed her schooling and studied International Relations and Politics for 2 years in Russia. At school she took part in several essay and literature analysis competitions and was awarded the 2nd and 7th place in the regional and national rounds of Russian literature contest respectively.
