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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Adrian Furnham is Professor of Psychology at the University of London (UCL). He is the author of 48 books including Culture Shock, The Psychology of Money, and The Dark Side of Behaviour at Work.
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What are Psychology Majors Talking About?,
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This review is from: 50 Psychology Ideas You Really Need to Know (Hardcover)
This book contains introductions to 50 topics in psychology that touch our everyday lives. It could be an apt gift from a college psychology major to the parents or anyone else who wonders what psychology is all about. Copies of selected chapters might be used by an instructor to prompt group discussion or individual research. This book could also find its place in a psychologist's waiting room or on a coffee table as a conversation starter.
Each chapter is self-contained and delivers a two- to four-page capsule treatment of its topic. Most chapters contain definitions of key concepts, relevant historical quotes, and timelines across the bottom of the first two pages. Boxes set off from the text effectively summarize key information. Example boxes include dimensions of emotional intelligence (p. 57), diagnostic criteria for identifying substance abuse problems (p. 14), and different types of psychopathology (p. 25) and delusion (p. 48). Several chapters are particularly informative for such brief introductions. The IQ and You chapter (p. 68) outlines the strengths and weaknesses of intelligence testing and fairly overviews research about differences in subgroup performance on these measures. Detecting Lies (p. 88) not only cautions about reliability of lie detector tests, but summarizes more promising findings on "emotional leakage" as signs of deception. The Judgment and Problem-Solving chapter (p. 116) presents useful findings about the reasoning biases that afflict us in personal and business situations. Finally, the Mastering Complexity chapter (p. 180) covers complex learning, development of expertise, and the psychology of language--a good complement to the two chapters on simple behaviorist learning that precede it. The book has a good topic index and an adequate two-page glossary, but utterly lacks references to supporting literature. This is a mistake for a book designed to provoke interest in psychology. Readers should be aimed at further reading when they are at their thirstiest for more knowledge. This minor flaw will hopefully be remedied in the next edition.
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What are Psychology Majors Talking About?,
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This review is from: 50 Psychology Ideas You Really Need to Know (50 Ideas) (Hardcover)
This book contains introductions to 50 topics in psychology that touch our everyday lives. It could be an apt gift from a college psychology major to the parents or anyone else who wonders what psychology is all about. Copies of selected chapters might be used by an instructor to prompt group discussion or individual research. This book could also find its place in a psychologist's waiting room or on a coffee table as a conversation starter.
Each chapter is self-contained and delivers a two- to four-page capsule treatment of its topic. Most chapters contain definitions of key concepts, relevant historical quotes, and timelines across the bottom of the first two pages. Boxes set off from the text effectively summarize key information. Example boxes include dimensions of emotional intelligence (p. 57), diagnostic criteria for identifying substance abuse problems (p. 14), and different types of psychopathology (p. 25) and delusion (p. 48). Several chapters are particularly informative for such brief introductions. The IQ and You chapter (p. 68) outlines the strengths and weaknesses of intelligence testing and fairly overviews research about differences in subgroup performance on these measures. Detecting Lies (p. 88) not only cautions about reliability of lie detector tests, but summarizes more promising findings on "emotional leakage" as signs of deception. The Judgment and Problem-Solving chapter (p. 116) presents useful findings about the reasoning biases that afflict us in personal and business situations. Finally, the Mastering Complexity chapter (p. 180) covers complex learning, development of expertise, and the psychology of language--a good complement to the two chapters on simple behaviorist learning that precede it. Steven Schwartz's book has a good topic index and an adequate two-page glossary, but utterly lacks references to supporting literature. This is a mistake for a book designed to provoke interest in psychology. Readers should be aimed at further reading when they are at their thirstiest for more knowledge. This minor flaw will hopefully be remedied in the next edition.
6 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
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This is a little book of a collection of psychological ideas, concepts most commonly perceived as psychobabble. It is a collection of concepts that inevitably bleeds over into psychological theories. However, this constitutes such a narrow selection of psychological ideas that they really require explaining how the selections were made. And while what is included is informative and well written, it blurs the distinction between concept and theory, between process and ideas, without acknowledging a difference between them. The concepts are also introduced as colloquialisms rather than as formal concepts. This may give the reader a warm and fuzzy feeling, but does nothing to inspire confidence that the substance is professionally well-grounded. It is so casually introduced that some of the concepts which actually constitute a part of complex theoretical processes, are in fact repeatedly and unaccountably introduced as discrete, disconnected and almost simple-minded ideas.
Also, it is not clear what audience this book was intended for: If it is designed for the novice, much more background than that given here is required to situate these concepts into a meaningful theoretical context; if for the knowledgeable, then it needed to be more complete so that it could at least then serve as a useful reference. Two stars.
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