基本信息
书名:Collins Key Concepts in Psychology柯林斯心理学核心概念
作者:Kay Kendall
出版社名称:Collins
出版时间:2014
语种:英文
ISBN:9780007521975
商品尺寸:14.8 x 1.3 x 21.1 cm
包装:平装
页数:222
编辑推荐
Collins Key Concepts in Psychology is your definitive reference guide to the essential concepts in Psychology.
Written by a subject expert, this book will help you to secure your knowledge of the ideas, theories and processes essential to understanding psychology. Whether you are looking to learn about a new concept, refresh your knowledge or advance your understanding:
·Use this invaluable reference guide at home, in class or on the move with the easy look-up book or free e-version
·Make even tricky concepts easy to understand with the quick-reference definitions and clear, trustworthy explanations
·Build essential vocabulary with key terms used in the explanations
·Apply your understanding with contextualised case studies integrated into each concept
This reference guide is suitable for new and advanced students of Psychology courses.
内容简介
Explains the key terms for anyone studying in school, college or those working in the psychology sector. Each entry begins with a clear definition and is followed by explanation that contextualises the concept and applies it to the real world.
From ‘aggression’ to ‘perception’ Collins Key Concepts provides a clear definition, in-depth description and real world example for the essential terms in psychology, making the most complicated of concepts easy to understand.
This is an invaluable reference for students across all psychology courses, helping familiarise them with the language of the field. Perfect for new students as terms and concepts are clearly explained, helping students new to psychology gain a thorough understanding quickly. A great companion book throughout the course giving the more advanced student full explanations of important and challenging concepts, helping them tackle course assignments with confidence.
作者简介
Kay Kendall has many years’ experience teaching Psychology and applying its uses to patient care in her work as a nurse. In her current role she teaches and examines across AS and A2 exams.
目录
Approaches to psychology
Approaches: behavioural
Approaches: biological
Approaches: cognitive
Approaches: evolutionary
Approaches: humanist
Approaches: psychodynamic
Attachment: formation
Attachment: privation & disruption
Attachment: types
Biological rhythms
Conditioning: classical
Conditioning: operant
Conformity
Debates: free will & determinism
Debates: nature and nurture
Disorders: depression
Disorders: OCD
Disorders: phobias
Disorders: schizophrenia
Issues: culture and gender bias
issues: reductionism
Memory: cognitive interview
Memory: eye witness testimony
Memory: forgetting
Memory: levels of processing
Memory: reconstructive
Memory: structure
Obedience
OBEs and NDEs
Research: data types
Research: design
Research: ethics
Research: methods
Research: reliability & validity
Science & pseudo-science
Sleeping: explanations
Social learning theory
Stress: bodily responses
Stress: individual differences
Stress: workplace
Therapies: behavioural
Therapies: biological
Therapies: CBT
Therapies: psychoanalysis
Index
Dedication
Notes
精彩书摘
Approaches to psychology
In psychology, there are various ways of looking at the same thing — different points of view or perspectives based certain assumptions. A psychologist’s particular perspective or approach will influence the methods they choose to study both humans and non-humans. It will also influence the type of therapies chosen to treat disorders.
Different approaches in psychology
There are several approaches used in psychology: biological, psychodynamic, behavioural, cognitive, evolutionary and humanistic. Each approach offers reasons why people function as they do, based on a particular set of assumptions.
The different approaches influence the types of methods a psychologist chooses to study phenomena, the conclusions drawn from the studies, and treatments chosen for disorders. These treatments are called therapies, and they may be biological or psychological. To know how each therapy works, you first need to understand the ideas behind the particular approach the therapy is based on.
How approach affects perception
Langer & Abelson (1974) investigated whether a psychologist’s approach would influence their view of a person’s behaviour. Clinicians from two psychological approaches (psychodynamic and behavioural) were shown a video of an interview between two men. Half of each group were told the interviewee was a job applicant and the other half were told he was a patient. The researchers expected the psychodynamic clinicians to rate the interviewee as more disturbed than the behaviourist clinicians. They found that the psychodynamic clinicians rated the man as disturbed when told he was a patient, but as relatively normal when told he was an interviewee. In contrast, the behaviourist clinicians rated the man as reasonably well adjusted in both conditions. The researchers suggested the reason for this was that the behaviourists rated the man based only on his overt behaviour, compared to the psychodynamic clinicians who were trained to look further than the surface. As the researchers pointed out, this study was purely to show how approach can affect perception of participants.
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评分这本书的封面设计,说实话,第一眼并没有立刻抓住我的眼球。那种传统的学术教材的配色和字体排版,虽然严谨,但总觉得少了一点现代感。不过,当我真正翻开它,开始接触里面的内容时,那种视觉上的平淡立刻就被内容的深度和广度所取代了。它更像是一个可靠的老朋友,不靠花哨的外表吸引你,而是用扎实的学识和清晰的逻辑来赢得你的尊重。我尤其欣赏它在概念解析上的那种抽丝剥茧的能力,比如对于认知失调(Cognitive Dissonance)的阐述,它没有仅仅停留在教科书式的定义上,而是通过一系列巧妙设计的场景模拟和历史案例,让你真切地感受到这个理论是如何在日常生活中运作的。这种处理方式,极大地降低了理解复杂心理学理论的门槛,让即便是初次接触这门学科的人也能迅速建立起一个稳固的知识框架。作者的叙事节奏把握得非常好,既保持了学术的严谨性,又避免了陷入晦涩难懂的泥潭,使得整个阅读体验流畅而富有启发性。
评分这本书给我的整体感受,用一个词来形容就是“结构的力量”。它的章节逻辑推进如同精密的瑞士钟表,每一个齿轮——无论是理论模型、实验证据还是实际应用——都咬合得天衣无缝。我发现自己很少需要频繁地回头查阅前文,因为作者在构建知识体系时就已经预先铺设好了清晰的指引线索。对于一个需要系统学习心理学知识的读者来说,这种结构上的可靠性至关重要。它不仅仅是一堆知识点的集合,而是一套完整的、可以反复构建和迭代的心智模型。当我合上这本书,感觉自己脑海中关于人类行为的解释框架被整体升级了,不再是碎片化的认知,而是一个坚实、可信赖的知识大厦,随时准备好接受现实世界的检验和挑战。
评分坦白讲,我过去对一些经典心理学著作的阅读体验并不算愉快,常常因为术语过多或者论证过于冗长而感到疲惫。但这本书的排版和语言风格简直是一股清流。它似乎深谙如何与学习者“对话”。那些复杂的统计学概念或实验设计,作者总能用一种近乎散文诗般的清晰度来解释,没有丝毫的生硬感。比如,关于实验控制变量的讨论,它没有堆砌公式,而是用生活中的比喻来阐释,让抽象的科学方法论变得触手可及。这种“润物细无声”的教学方式,极大地减少了阅读过程中的挫败感。而且,书中的小测验或思考题设计得非常高明,它们不是用来考倒你的,而是引向更深层次思考的“钩子”,让你忍不住停下来,在脑海中模拟那个情境,真正做到“学以致用”,而不是“读完即忘”。
评分作为一本“核心概念”的教材,它在广度上的覆盖是毋庸置疑的,但更难能可贵的是其在深度上的不妥协。我特别注意到了它对学科历史和伦理讨论的篇幅。很多教材只是草草带过弗洛伊德或斯金纳的理论,但这本书却花了大笔墨去探讨这些理论的局限性以及它们在特定历史文化背景下的产生根源。这使得我们不仅仅是学习“是什么”,更理解了“为什么是这样”。特别是关于心理学研究中的伦理边界讨论,作者呈现了多个经典的、甚至有些争议的案例,引导读者思考,在追求知识进步的同时,如何坚守人文关怀的底线。这种对学科“灵魂”的拷问,是教科书中最难得的部分,它让这本书超越了工具书的范畴,变成了一部引导思考的哲学读本。
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