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."