Instant Psychology

Intro * Philosophical roots * Epistemology: the problem of knowledge * Descartes and mind-body dualism * British Empiricism: Hobbes, Locke and Hume * Scientific method * The development of psychology * William James and consciousness * Wilhelm Wundt and controlled experiments * Ivan Pavlov and learning * Behaviourism * Gestalt psychology * Humanist psychology * Psychological research methods: Experiments * Observations * Case studies and accounts * Brain scanning * Neuroscience * Neuropsychology * The nervous system * Neural processes * Seeing * Hearing * Other senses * Movement * Remembering * Emotions * Emotions in the brain * Arousal * Being awake * Being asleep * Learning * Classical conditioning * Little Albert * The Law of Effect * Reinforcement * One trial learning * Imprinting * Cognitive behaviourism * Animal and human learning * Social learning * Skill learning * Schema development * Self-efficacy & Mindset * Cognitive psychology * Memory * Representing memories * Organizing memory * Models of memory * Active memory * Eyewitness testimony * John Dean's memory * Perception * Perceiving distance * Perceptual set * Visual illusions * Two theories of perception * The perceptual cycle * Attention * Thinking * Challenging mental set * Experts and novices * Social influences in decision-making * Heuristics * Fast and slow thinking * Origins of Psychoanalysis * Freud and "The Talking Cure" (Freud and Breuer) * The unconscious * Free association and dreams * Psychodynamics and drives * The libido and development * Love and Hate (Klein and Winnicott) * Adlerian Psychology * The collective unconscious * Jungian Archetypes * Complexes and Parts * Meaning and Happiness (Victor Frankl) * Existential Psychotherapy (Rollo May) * Creativity and Play * Postmodern Psychoanalysis (Jacques Lacan: the self and "The Other") * The myth of mental illness (Antipsychiatry, Thomas Szasz) * Transactional analysis (Eric Berne) * Social psychology * Non-verbal interaction * Symbolic communication * Verbal communication * Attribution * Social scripts * Social representations * Attitudes * Changing attitudes * Prejudice and discrimination * Aggression * Social identification * Social roles: the Stanford prison study * Bystanders and helping * The presence of others * Obedience * Conformity * Person perception * The social self * Developmental psychology * Nature v nurture * animal theories of attachment * Harry Harlow * John Bowlby * Mary Ainsworth * Gender development * Forms of play * Developing social competence * Skills, schemas & self-efficacy & locus of control * Piaget: cognitive development * Lev Vygotsky: support and scaffolding * Labelling * Lawrence Kohlberg: moral development * Erik Erikson: stages of psychosocial development * Adolescence personal relationships & bereavement * Life-transitions & Family life cycle * Types of age * Ageing and intelligence * Individual differences * Gordon and Floyd Allport: personality traits * Hans Eysenck: extravert/introvert and neurotic/stable * the "Big Five" * Issues in psychometric testing * Walter Mischel: personality and situation * George A Kelly: personal construct theory * Intelligence (and Flynn effect) * Charles Spearman * Multiple factors * Multiple Intelligences * Sternberg: triarchic intelligence * Racial and cultural prejudices * Normality and abnormality * Mental disorders and their classification * Substance abuse and dependence * Challenging conventional ideas of mental disorders * Clinical psychology * Psychiatry * Psychotherapy and counselling * Humanistic psychotherapies * Behavioural therapy * Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) * Gestalt psychotherapy (Perls) * Person-centred therapy * Family and systemic therapy * Positive psychology (Martin Seligman) * Mindfulness-based therapy * Somatic therapies * Parts of the self (Structural dissociation and IFS) * Applied psychology * Sports psychology * Organizational psychology * Organizational cultures & social groups * Vocational guidance * Education: learning & disadvantage: autism * Persuasion * Forensic psychology and criminology * Gaming and media influence * Ethics of psychological research * The breadth of psychology * Glossary and Further Reading.