Psychology 05/06

Résumé du livre

Science of psychology: Why study psychology? Does psychology make a significant difference in our lives? / P.G. Zimbardo -- Biological bases of behavior: What makes you who you are / M. Ridley; Blank slate / S. Pinker; Neuroscience, breaking down scientific barriers to the study of brain and mind / E.R. Kandel and L.R. Squire -- Perceptual processes: Vision seekers, giving eyesight to the blind raises questions about how people see / B. Bower; It's a noisy, noisy world out there / R. Carmen; Pain and its mysteries / M. Jackson; Brains in dreamland / B. Bower -- Learning and remembering: Seven sins of memory, how to mind forgets and remembers / D. Schacter; Memories of things unseen / E.F. Lofftus -- Cognitive processes: Power of babble / M. Duenwald; Mind's self-portrait, an illusion of conscious will / P. Ciske -- Emotion and motivation: Fundamental feelings / A. Damasio; Value of positive emotions / B.L. Fredrickson -- Development: Biology of aging / G. Cowley; Inside the womb / J.M. Nash -- Personality processes: Psychology discovers happiness, I'm OK, You're OK / G. Easterbrook; Companies seeking "right" candidates increasingly turn to personality tests / D. Cline -- Social processes: Are you looking at me? eye gaze and person perception / C. Neil Macrae; Got time for friends? / A. Steiner -- Psychological disorders: How we get labeled / J. Cloud; Power of mood / M.D. Lemonick -- Psychological treatments: Psychotherapies, can we tell the difference?; Can Freud get his job back? / L. Grossman.