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50 psychology ideas you really need to know / Adrian Furnham.

By: Material type: TextLanguage: English Publisher: London : Quercus, 2008Description: 208 p. ill. 21 cmISBN:
  • 9781847248527
  • 1847248527
  • 9781847246561
  • 1847246567
Other title:
  • Fifty psychology ideas you really need to know
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 150 22
Contents:
Abnormal behaviour -- Placebo effect -- Kicking the habit -- Lost touch -- Not neurotic, just different -- Seem sane -- Stress -- Visual illusions -- Psychophysics -- Hallucinations -- Delusions -- Are you conscious? -- Positive psychology -- Emotional intelligence -- What are emotions for? -- Cognitive therapy -- IQ and you -- Flynn effect -- Multiple intelligences -- Cognitive differences -- The Rorschach inkblot test -- Detecting lies -- Authoritarian personality -- Obedience to authority -- Fitting in -- Self-sacrifice or selfishness -- Cognitive dissonance -- Gambler's fallacy -- Judgement and problem-solving -- Too much invested to quit -- Rational decision-making -- Remembrance of things past -- What the witness saw -- Artificial intelligence -- Perchance to dream -- Try to forget -- Tip-of-the-tongue phenomenon -- Psychosexual stages -- Cognitive stages -- Ducks in a row -- Tabula rasa -- Stay hungry -- Behaviourism -- Reinforcement schedules -- Mastering complexity -- Phrenology -- Breaking up is hard to do -- Aphasia -- Dyslexia -- Who's that?
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Includes index.

Abnormal behaviour -- Placebo effect -- Kicking the habit -- Lost touch -- Not neurotic, just different -- Seem sane -- Stress -- Visual illusions -- Psychophysics -- Hallucinations -- Delusions -- Are you conscious? -- Positive psychology -- Emotional intelligence -- What are emotions for? -- Cognitive therapy -- IQ and you -- Flynn effect -- Multiple intelligences -- Cognitive differences -- The Rorschach inkblot test -- Detecting lies -- Authoritarian personality -- Obedience to authority -- Fitting in -- Self-sacrifice or selfishness -- Cognitive dissonance -- Gambler's fallacy -- Judgement and problem-solving -- Too much invested to quit -- Rational decision-making -- Remembrance of things past -- What the witness saw -- Artificial intelligence -- Perchance to dream -- Try to forget -- Tip-of-the-tongue phenomenon -- Psychosexual stages -- Cognitive stages -- Ducks in a row -- Tabula rasa -- Stay hungry -- Behaviourism -- Reinforcement schedules -- Mastering complexity -- Phrenology -- Breaking up is hard to do -- Aphasia -- Dyslexia -- Who's that?