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If you want to know your Freud from your Jung and your Milgram from your Maslow, strap in for this whirlwind tour of the highlights of psychology. Including accessible primers on:

  • The early thinkers who contributed to psychological ideas and the birth of modern psychology
  • Famous (and often controversial) experiments and their repercussions
  • What psychology can teach us about memory, language, conformity, reasoning and emotions
  • The ethics of psychological studies
  • Recent developments in the modern fields of evolutionary and cyber psychology.

This illuminating little book will introduce you to the key thinkers, themes and theories you need to know to understand how the study of mind and behaviour has sculpted the world we live in and the way we think today.

The Little Book of Psychology: An Introduction to

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A Paperback / softback by Emily Ralls, Caroline Riggs

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    Publisher: Octopus Publishing Group
    Publication Date: 13/06/2019
    ISBN13: 9781786858078, 978-1786858078
    ISBN10: 178685807X
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    Description

    Book Synopsis

    If you want to know your Freud from your Jung and your Milgram from your Maslow, strap in for this whirlwind tour of the highlights of psychology. Including accessible primers on:

    • The early thinkers who contributed to psychological ideas and the birth of modern psychology
    • Famous (and often controversial) experiments and their repercussions
    • What psychology can teach us about memory, language, conformity, reasoning and emotions
    • The ethics of psychological studies
    • Recent developments in the modern fields of evolutionary and cyber psychology.

    This illuminating little book will introduce you to the key thinkers, themes and theories you need to know to understand how the study of mind and behaviour has sculpted the world we live in and the way we think today.

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