The Complete Idiot's Guide to Psychology, 3rd Edition

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Pub. Date: 2006-06-06
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Summary

You're no idiot, of course. You know that the science of psychology is both fascinating and beneficial. By comprehending how your thoughts influence your disposition and affect your body, you develop a greater understanding not only of your self, but also of the motivations and actions of those around you.

Author Biography

Joni E. Johnston, Psy.D., is a clinical psychologist in Del Mar, California, and CEO of WorkRelationships, which helps companies build healthy work relationships. She writes a monthly column for LexisNexis and is a noted public speaker.

Table of Contents

Part 1: Putting It in Perspective
1(80)
A Little Psychological Insight
3(22)
What's Psychology?
4(3)
Telling It Like It Is
4(1)
Why, Oh Why, Oh Why?
5(1)
What's Next?
5(1)
Becoming the New, Improved Model
6(1)
A Day in the Life of a Shrink
7(1)
The Couch Trip
7(1)
They're Everywhere, They're Everywhere!
7(1)
``Doing'' Psychology
8(1)
How They Used to Do It
8(1)
Psychology Today
8(1)
Methods to Studying Madness
9(4)
Delving into the Descriptive
10(1)
Is There a Relationship?
11(1)
The Experimental Experience
12(1)
Keeping Junk Science out of Your Mental Closet
13(1)
Multiple Perspective Disorder
14(7)
I Was Born This Way
15(1)
It's Only the Tip of the Iceberg
16(1)
We're Just Rats Caught in a Maze
17(1)
I Think, Therefore I Am
18(1)
It's a Dog-Eat-Dog World
19(1)
No Man Is an Island
20(1)
Looking on the Bright Side
20(1)
Psychology in Action
21(4)
Bio Psycho What?
25(18)
You Are What You Think
26(1)
It's Evolutionary, My Dear Watson
26(1)
Adapting to Changes
26(1)
On Your Feet, Big Head!
27(1)
The Brains Behind the Research
27(1)
The Headquarters of Human Behavior
28(1)
A Living Record of Time Travel
28(1)
Hello Central!
28(1)
Getting Your Brain Organized
29(1)
Left Brain, Right Brain
29(2)
Left-Leaning or a Rightward Slant?
30(1)
Partners for Life
30(1)
Meet the Mother Lobes
31(2)
Front and Center
31(1)
Temporally Speaking
31(1)
Parietals Rule
31(1)
An Occipital Complex?
32(1)
Working with Half a Brain
33(1)
You've Got a Lot of Nerve
34(1)
No Pain, No Gain
35(1)
Speedy Delivery
35(1)
Doing the Neuron Dance
36(1)
Synaptically Speaking
37(1)
Blame It on Your Hormones
37(1)
When Good Hormones Go Bad
37(1)
Midbrain Magic
38(1)
Adrenaline Alert!
38(1)
The Brain Doesn't Mind
38(1)
The Make-up of a Mind
39(1)
What You Think Ain't What You Get
39(1)
Brain Booboos and What They Do
39(4)
The Chicken or the Egg?
43(18)
Dancing with Wolves
44(1)
Taming the Wild Child
44(1)
Looking Beneath the Surface
44(1)
Nature or Nurture
45(1)
The Great Debate, Philosophically Speaking
45(1)
Taking the Middle Road
46(1)
Asking the Right Questions
46(1)
What Twins Tell Us
47(1)
Family Genes and Other Heirlooms
48(1)
Dominating Genes
48(2)
Jeepers, Creepers, Where'd You Get Those Peepers?
49(1)
You Can't Get Lost with This Map
49(1)
Too Much Information?
49(1)
Don't Blame Your Genes
50(2)
Growing Up on the Wild Side
51(1)
What About the Suicide Gene?
51(1)
Typical Human Behavior
52(1)
Similarity Can Breed Content
52(1)
But Vive la Difference!
53(1)
Evolutionary Theory Gone Awry
53(1)
Mother Nature's Morality
53(1)
I Just Couldn't Help Myself!
54(1)
Home, Sweet Home
54(1)
Baby Builds on Blueprints
55(1)
Is ``Normal'' Just a Setting on the Clothes Drier?
56(1)
Oh, Grow Up!
56(1)
The Parental Part of the Equation
56(3)
What's Your Attachment Style?
57(1)
Growing Up Emotionally
57(2)
Nature? Nurture? It's Both!
59(2)
It's Only a Stage
61(20)
It's a Dog's Life
62(1)
The Development of Child Development
62(1)
Studying Bored Babes
63(1)
Fast Learners and Good Teachers
63(1)
I Second That Emotion
64(1)
Learning Baby Talk
65(1)
LADS and LASSes
66(2)
Listen and Learn
68(1)
The Child Psychologist
68(1)
Putting Our Thinking Caps On
69(2)
The Curious Child
70(1)
Coping with Curveballs
70(1)
Performing on Stage
71(3)
Sensorimotor Stage
71(1)
Preoperational Stage
72(1)
Concrete Operations
72(1)
Formal Operations
73(1)
The Human Computer
74(1)
Speak Before You Think---or Vice Versa
74(1)
The Moral of the Story
75(1)
Empathetically Yours
76(1)
Growing a Happy Child
77(2)
Midlife Isn't the First Crisis
78(1)
A Self-Help Psych-Up
79(2)
Part 2: Wake Up and Smell the Coffee
81(76)
Come to Your Senses
83(18)
Creating a Sensation
84(1)
On the Threshold of Discovery
84(2)
Star Light, Star Bright
85(1)
Crossing the Threshold
85(1)
Get Your Signals Straight
86(1)
Common Senses
86(1)
What Stimulates You?
87(1)
The Big Five
88(3)
Vision
88(1)
Hearing
89(1)
Smell
90(1)
Taste
90(1)
Touch
91(1)
The Sixth Sense?
91(1)
Pain in the What?
91(2)
The Placebo Effect
92(1)
Starting from the Top Down and the Bottom Up
93(1)
Bottoms Up
93(1)
Watch Out! Reality Under Construction
94(1)
Life Is an Illusion
94(1)
Deceptive Appearances
94(1)
Up, Down, Near, and Far
95(1)
Meet Ponzo the Western Illusion
95(1)
Pay Attention When I'm Talking to You
96(1)
Working Smarter, Not Harder
97(2)
Don't Take It out of Context
99(2)
Context? Which Context?
99(2)
It's Consciousness-Raising Time!
101(18)
Are You Self-Conscious?
102(1)
On the Wings of Fantasy
102(1)
You Are What You Think
102(1)
Unconscious, Higher Conscious, and Everything in Between
103(1)
Automatic Pilot
103(1)
The File Cabinet
103(1)
The Secret Service
104(1)
The Clearinghouse
104(1)
Alpha, Beta, Delta---the Sleep Fraternity
104(2)
All the World's a Stage
105(1)
I Must Be Dreaming
106(1)
The Ticking of Your Biological Clock
107(1)
Doc, I Just Can't Sleep
108(2)
Altered Consciousness
110(1)
Look Deeply into My Eyes
111(1)
You're Getting Very, Very Sleepy
111(1)
And When I Snap My Fingers, You'll Remember Nothing
111(1)
Don't Bother Me, I'm Meditating
112(1)
I Must Be Hallucinating
112(2)
We're Not Talking Beads and Lava Lamps Here
113(1)
Is This a Dagger I See Before Me?
113(1)
Operating Under the Influence
114(2)
Some Pills Make You Larger
114(1)
Risking Addiction
115(1)
Lethal Weapons
116(1)
The Monkey on Your Back
116(3)
It All Sneaks Up on You
117(1)
The Addictive Mind
117(2)
Get That Through Your Thick Skull!
119(20)
Helpless
120(1)
Learning About Learning
120(1)
Does the Name Pavlov Ring a Bell?
121(1)
Learning the Classics
122(1)
Coming In on Cue
122(1)
Where There's Smoke
123(1)
Learning Isn't Always Fun
123(1)
Learning About Meaningful Relationships
124(2)
Developing Discrimination
125(1)
Think of the Consequences
126(1)
Kitty in a Box
126(1)
Teaching Old Dogs New Tricks
127(1)
There's More Than One Way to Skinner a Cat
127(2)
Calling in Reinforcements
128(1)
Consequentially
128(1)
The Terminators
129(3)
Nipping Bad Behaviors in the Bud
129(1)
Of Carrots and Sticks
129(1)
Oh, Those Thumb-Sucking, Nose-Picking Kids!
130(1)
The Behavior Police
131(1)
Learning on the Liberal Side
132(2)
Attitudes and Expectations
132(1)
Experience and Interpretation
133(1)
Attention, Please!
133(1)
Modeling Behavior
134(1)
Don't Be So Scared
135(1)
Getting Rid of Bad Habits
136(3)
Coming to Terms with Your Memory
139(18)
Kidnapped!
140(1)
The Court Jester
140(1)
Learning About Remembering from Forgetting
141(1)
Memory Tests
142(1)
The Long and Short of It
142(2)
Photographer at Work
143(1)
The Organic Data Processor
143(1)
The Curious Curator
144(1)
Visiting the Museum
144(2)
I Was Only Following Procedure
145(1)
Well, I Declare!
145(1)
You've Got Rhythm
146(1)
Now, Where Did I Put That Thought?
146(1)
Will You Gain Wisdom or Grow Senile?
147(1)
Coming to (Memory) Terms
147(1)
You Can Always Make a List
148(1)
Get It Right in the First Place
148(1)
Hooked on Mnemonics
149(1)
Mnemonics Boosters
150(1)
Warning: Under Construction
151(1)
The Truth About False Memories
152(1)
Sorting the True from the False
152(1)
The Political Problems
153(1)
Exploring Repressed Memories
153(4)
Part 3: The Forces Are with You
157(72)
What's Your Motive?
159(18)
It's a Jungle in Here
160(1)
Let's Get Motivatin'
160(1)
Hungry Like a Wolf
161(1)
What Drives Your Body?
161(1)
Investigating Motives
162(1)
The Mystery of Hunger
162(1)
Inside the Pleasure Dome
162(1)
Is Your Hunger in Your Head?
163(1)
We're All Picky Eaters
163(1)
The Dieter's Dilemma
164(1)
Mmmmmm, It's So Appetizing!
164(1)
My Genes Made Me Do It!
165(1)
Come On, Baby, Light My Fire
165(1)
Ready, Set, Blast Off
166(1)
Driving the Sex Machine
167(1)
Those Sexy Hormones!
167(1)
Tanking Up on Testosterone
168(1)
Sex in Low Gear
168(1)
I Love You for Your Mind
169(1)
Dealing with Dysfunction
169(1)
Oriented Toward Sex
169(2)
Birds Do It, Bees Do It; Fruit Flies, Too?
170(1)
It's Just the Way It Is
170(1)
In Search of Higher Ground
171(1)
Beginning with Basics
171(1)
Moving on Up
172(1)
The Need to Achieve
172(1)
What Motive Works for You?
173(4)
Achievement in Action
174(1)
The Thirst for Power
174(1)
The Team Player
174(3)
Emotions in Motion
177(16)
Hooked on a Feeling
178(1)
Adjust Your Attitude and Improve Your Love Life!
178(1)
Where Did These Feelings Come From?
179(1)
Body Feelings
180(1)
What We Think About Feelings
181(3)
Touchy-Feely Psychology
184(1)
The Mind and Body, Working Together
184(1)
Are You Cultured?
185(1)
Cross-Cultural Confusion
185(1)
Guilt Trippin'
186(1)
Coding and Decoding
186(1)
Smart Feelings
187(1)
Managing Your Everyday Moods
188(1)
Meet the Mood Managers
189(1)
Drugs and Emotions
190(1)
Ground to Trauma Control: Do You Read Me?
190(3)
Don't Do Me Any Favors
191(2)
Think Before You Speak
193(18)
Getting Into Another's Mind
194(1)
Mind Detectives
194(1)
Models of the Mind
195(1)
Information Overload!
195(1)
Investigating Thoughts
196(3)
Introspection
197(1)
Behavioral Observations
197(1)
Analyzing Errors
198(1)
Brain Scanning
198(1)
Jeopardy of the Mind
199(2)
I'll Take ``Building Blocks'' for $200, Alex
199(1)
Building the Building Blocks
200(1)
Great Expectations
201(2)
The Big Fish or the Whole Ocean?
202(1)
Danger, Danger, Danger
203(1)
We're All Actors Following Scripts
203(1)
Be Reasonable
204(1)
Problem Solving
205(2)
Try This at Home
206(1)
Defining Your Puzzles
206(1)
Desperately Seeking Solutions
207(1)
Guilty Until Proven Innocent
207(2)
Seven Strategies for Improving Your Decision-Making Batting Average
209(2)
Don't Blow a Fuse!
211(18)
Defining Stress
212(2)
How Can I Be Stressed? Let Me Count the Ways
212(1)
Stress Is All Around
213(1)
Stress and the Individual
213(1)
What Determines Your Stress Level
214(1)
Making Change
214(1)
How Do You Know if You're Stressed Out?
215(1)
Burning Out
216(1)
The Fires of Burnout Build over Time
216(1)
Buffering Against Burnout!
217(1)
I Feel Like Fighting or Flying Away
217(1)
It's a Gas, Gas, Gas
218(2)
GASsing Up
218(1)
All Stations on Alert!
219(1)
Fighting Harder
219(1)
Ending in Exhaustion
220(1)
Coping or Moping
220(2)
Not All Coping Is Created Equal
221(1)
What Are You Coping With?
221(1)
Categories of Coping
222(1)
Focusing on the Problem
222(1)
Gaining the Emotional Edge
222(1)
Identifying Your Stressors
223(1)
Stressful Thoughts
223(1)
I Think I Can, I Think I Can, I Think I Can
224(1)
Mind over Matter
224(1)
Culture and Stress
225(1)
Seeking Immunity
225(1)
Writing Your Way to Physical Well-Being
226(1)
Playing Catch-Up
227(2)
Part 4: Self and Otherness
229(56)
Me, Myself, and I
231(18)
Gender and Selfhood
231(1)
Know Thyself
232(1)
But Who Is Thyself?
233(1)
Our Toys ``R'' Us
233(1)
It's Who You Know
233(1)
That's the Spirit!
233(1)
Reflections in a Looking Glass
233(2)
Mirror, Mirror on the Wall
234(1)
Reflections in a Golden Eye
234(1)
It's Like, You Know, a Teen Thing
235(1)
Adolescent Angst
235(1)
The Power of the Peer Group
235(1)
The Family Circle
235(1)
In Defense of the Midlife Identity Crisis
236(1)
Getting Older and Better?
236(1)
Avoiding the Comparison Trap
237(1)
Keeping Up with the Joneses
237(1)
Referentially Speaking
237(1)
Hello, Your High Esteemness!
238(1)
Safeguarding Self-Esteem
239(1)
Sex Roles and Designated Gender Drivers
240(1)
Puppy Dogs' Tails or Sugar and Spice?
240(1)
Gender, Worth, and Self-Worth
241(1)
Call It Gender, Not Sex
241(1)
Gender Bending
242(1)
Meet Mr. and Ms. Androgyny
242(2)
The Big-Time Gender Blues
244(1)
Sacrificing Identity to Escape Pain
245(1)
Dissociative (Psychogenic) Amnesia
245(1)
Dissociative Fugue States
245(1)
Depersonalization
246(1)
Playing the Odds. Integrating Dissociative Disorders
246(1)
The Days of All Our Lives
247(2)
The Many Faces of Me
247(2)
He's Got ... Personality!
249(18)
Finding the Person in Personality
250(1)
X-rays of the Psyche
250(1)
Minnesota, the Personality State
251(1)
Can You Pull the Wool over Your Psychologist's Eyes?
252(1)
Projecting Your Personality
252(1)
Ink Blots of the Mind
253(1)
Is Your Personality Stable?
254(1)
The Theories Behind the Tests
254(1)
What State Are Your Traits In?
254(1)
Allport's Search for Personality
255(2)
The Eysenck Alternative
257(1)
The Personalities Behind the Theories
258(1)
Miss Congeniality or Misunderstood?
258(4)
Don't Be So Temperamental
259(1)
Personality by Birth Order
260(1)
Personality by Gender
260(1)
Look Out, I'm Culture Bound!
261(1)
Disturbing Personalities
262(5)
We're All a Little Bit ``Off''
262(1)
But It's All About Me and My Needs!
262(1)
How Personality Disorders Develop
263(1)
What's Your Tonic?
264(1)
Playing the Best Treatment Odds with Personality Disorders
264(3)
Psychic Self-Defense
267(18)
Ulterior Motives
268(2)
Sex in Overdrive
269(1)
Urges ``R'' Us
270(1)
On the Mat with Freud
271(1)
What's Id to Ya?
271(1)
It's a Bird, It's a Plane, It's Superego!
271(1)
And in This Corner
272(1)
Post-Freudian Dynamic Personalities
272(3)
Forever Jung
272(1)
Don't Treat Me Like an Object
273(1)
Horney's Need for Security
274(1)
Adler's Quest for Competence
274(1)
The Well-Defended Mind
275(3)
Out of Sight, Out of Mind!
276(1)
It's Your Problem, Not Mine!
276(1)
The Devil Made Me Do It!
277(1)
Always Keep 'Em Guessing
277(1)
Kicking the Dog Instead of the Boss
277(1)
If You Can't Beat 'Em, Join 'Em
277(1)
The Best Defense
278(1)
Freeing the Psychic Balloons!
279(1)
The Personality Habit
279(1)
Who's in the Driver's Seat?
280(2)
How Good a Driver Are You?
281(1)
Better Living Through Genetics?
282(1)
Being of Two Minds
282(3)
Multiples in Multiple Cultures?
283(1)
Playing the Odds: Getting the Best Treatment for DID
283(2)
Part 5: Just What Is Normal, Anyway?
285(46)
Are You Out of Your Mind?
287(16)
Meet Abby Normal
288(1)
How Psychologists MUUDI the Waters
289(1)
Sick Societies
290(1)
Psychology Today
291(2)
Walking the Biological Beat
292(1)
Pulling for the Psychological Team
292(1)
Putting It All Together
292(1)
DSM-IV-TR: The Mental Health Catalog
293(1)
Shopping in the DSM-IV-TR Catalog
294(2)
Warning: Labels Can Be Hazardous to Your Health
296(1)
The Trouble with Tunnel Vision
296(1)
That's a Person Under That Label!
296(1)
The Gender Politics of Mental Illness
297(1)
Are You Insane?
298(1)
Mental Illness vs. Insanity
298(1)
The Perils of Pleading Insanity
299(1)
Stigma Is a Dirty Word
299(1)
Five Things You Can Do to Fight Stigma
300(3)
Look on the Bright Side
303(12)
Going Back to Square One
304(3)
Keeping It Real
305(1)
Don't Just Follow Your Bliss---Create It!
306(1)
From Surviving to Thriving
307(2)
The ``Hardy'' Partiers
307(1)
Raising Tiggers Who Bounce Back from Stress
308(1)
Going with the Flow at Work
309(2)
Watch Two Simpsons and Call Me in the Morning
311(4)
Weapons Against Mental Dysfunction
315(16)
Better Living Through Chemistry
316(1)
Can't You Get the Dose Right?
317(2)
Choosing Your Drugs Carefully
317(2)
Kiddy Candy?
319(1)
The ABCs of ECT
319(2)
Frances Farmer Doesn't Live Here Anymore
320(1)
Psychosurgery Revised
320(1)
Winning the Battle with the Talking Cures
321(1)
The SCAT Team to the Rescue
322(1)
Finding a Partner for the Dance of Therapy
323(2)
The Therapeutic Relationship
323(1)
Guidelines for Finding a Therapist
324(1)
What to Expect When You're Going to Therapy
324(1)
Talking It Out
325(2)
Looking Ahead...to Now
327(2)
Short, Sweet, and to the Point
328(1)
Getting Wired
328(1)
Considering the Evidence
328(1)
But Does It Work?
329(2)
Part 6: Between a Rock and a Hard Place
331(78)
Mood Swingers and Scaredy Cats
333(20)
Being Psychologically Correct
334(1)
In a Major Funk
334(2)
Why Me?
336(1)
How Bad Is Your Mood?
337(1)
Depression Buffers
338(1)
When Someone You Love Is Depressed
339(1)
Low-Level Sadness
340(1)
Riding the Mood Roller Coaster
340(2)
Moody Children
342(1)
There're a Lot of Troubled Kids out There
342(1)
Is It Moodiness or Depression?
343(1)
Playing the Odds: Getting the Best Bang for the Depression Treatment Buck
343(2)
I'm Always Anxious About Everything
345(1)
Hit-and-Run Fear
345(2)
In the Path of an Onrushing Train
345(1)
Panic-Attack Pile-Up
346(1)
Stuck in the House All Day
347(1)
Meet the Phobia Family
347(2)
This Can't Be as Good as It Gets
349(1)
My Obsessions Compelled Me to Do It!
349(1)
Playing the Odds: Overcoming Anxiety and OCD
350(3)
Postcards from the Edge of Reality
353(20)
The General Scoop on Schizophrenia
354(2)
The Split Personality
355(1)
Schizophrenia from the Inside Out
355(1)
What's Real?
356(1)
When the Dream Defeats Reality
356(1)
Delusions and Hallucinations: The Devastating Duo
356(4)
Delusions
357(1)
Hallucinations
357(1)
Disorganized Speech
358(1)
Grossly Disorganized Behavior
359(1)
Changes in Emotions
359(1)
Negatively Speaking
359(1)
The Faces of Schizophrenia
360(1)
What Causes Schizophrenia?
361(3)
The Biological Connection
361(1)
Family Links
362(1)
Prenatal Effects
362(1)
Effects of the Home Environment
363(1)
Cultural Influences
363(1)
When Schizophrenia Happens in Childhood
364(1)
Who Gets Better?
365(1)
Playing the Odds: Schizophrenia
366(1)
Clearing Up Any Remaining Confusion
367(1)
The Perils of Paranoia
367(2)
Dealing with Distress
368(1)
From Distress to Delusion
368(1)
Paranoid Delusional Disorder
369(1)
The Green-Eyed Monster
369(1)
The Strange Psyche of the Stalker
369(1)
The Origins of Paranoid Delusions
370(1)
Playing the Odds: Delusional Disorders
370(3)
Outta Control!
373(36)
What's Eating You?
374(1)
Wasting Away to Nothing
375(3)
The Food Roller Coaster
376(1)
I Just Can't Quit Eating
377(1)
``Comfort'' Food Gone Wrong
377(1)
The Vicious Binge-Diet Cycle
377(1)
We Might Look Different, but We Have a Lot in Common
378(1)
An Ounce of Prevention Is Worth a Pound of Cure
379(1)
Ten Seeds That Grow Healthy Eaters
379(2)
Playing the Odds: Battling Eating Disorders
381(1)
When Someone You Love Has an Eating Disorder
381(1)
Eat, Drink, and Be...Addicted?
382(2)
The Road to Alcoholism
383(1)
Are You Hitting the Booze Too Hard?
384(2)
Assessing Your Intake
384(1)
Why Can't I Handle My Liquor?
385(1)
Playing the Odds: Overcoming Alcohol Dependence
386(2)
Helping a Loved One with a Drinking Problem
387(1)
I Can't Control My Impulses
388(2)
I Just Had to Take It!
389(1)
Pyromania
389(1)
Pathological Gambling
390(1)
Playing the Odds: Getting Control over Impulse Disorders
390(1)
The Never-Ending Story
391(2)
Appendixes
A. Glossary
393(10)
B. Psychology Resources
403(6)
Index 409

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