Showing of 1 results Of

  • 5 out of 5

    The Psychology Book (Series Big Ideas Simply Explained)

     1000
    Publisher: A Dorling Kindersley Book
    Author: DK
    Not Available

    Description

    Translate description to Vietnamese

    The Psychology Book DK is your visual guide to the vivid and fascinating visual world of human behavior. Explore how we learn, become emotionally engaged with others, and develop coping mechanisms to deal with adversity, or how to integrate within a group.
    Get to know key thinkers, from Freud and Jung to Elizabeth Loftus and Melanie Klein, and follow charting and timeline studies.

    The Psychology Book by DK is filled with profiles of the work of psychologists and psychoanalysts. The book describes psychology as coming from the Greek “psyche” meaning “soul” or “mind.” “Logia” is a “study” or “account.” These definitions give an overall idea what psychology means.
    Psychology developed from its roots of philosophy, through behaviorism, psychotherapy, and the study of the cognitive, social, and developmental psychology, to the psychology of difference.     These many branches cover the whole spectrum of mental life and human and animal behavior. These areas have overlapped with many other disciplines. In many ways psychology has influenced decisions made in government, business, industry, advertising, and the mass media. It has given us ideas that have changed the way people think.
     In 1879, Wilhelm Wundt founded the very first laboratory of experimental psychology at Leipzig University in Germany, and departments of psychology began springing up across Europe and the United States. The scientific method was applied to questions concerning perception, consciousness, memory, learning, and intelligence. These early practices produced a wealth of theories. “Behaviorists” designed experiments to observe THE behavior of animals in carefully monitored settings. Later these theories were used in human experiments.
     The mid-20th century witnessed the cognitive revolution with advances in neuroscience. There was an evolution from Freudian psychology to cognitive therapy that led to new improvements in mental health treatments, and proved a model for the unconscious, human drives, and behavior. At the beginning of the 21st century cognitive psychology was still dominant with an effect on neuroscience, education, and economics. It has even influenced the nature-nurture debate in the light of recent discoveries in genetics and neuroscience.

    With pithy explanations of different schools of psychology including psychotherapy, cognitive psychology, and behaviourism, this is an ideal reference whether you're a student, or a general reader. It's your authoritative guide to over 100 key ideas, theories, and conditions, including the collective unconscious, the "selfish" gene, false memory, psychiatric disorders, and autism.

    If you're fascinated by the human mind, The Psychology Book is both an invaluable reference and illuminating read.