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Find out what makes you—and everyone else—tick Psychology For Dummies takes you on the challenging and thrilling adventure into the astonishing science of why we do the things we do. Along the way you’ll find out how psychology helps us improve our relationships, make better decisions, be more effective in our careers, and avoid stress and mental illness in difficult times.
Article / Updated 06-18-2021
Psychologists don’t stop at the intersection of stress, disease, and coping. They’re also attempting to apply what they know about human behavior and mental processes to the problems of health in general. They’re looking for ways to keep people physically well and trying to find out how people’s behavior contributes to illness.
Article / Updated 09-21-2020
If you open up the skull and look at the brain, one of the first things you’ll like notice is that anatomically, the “one” brain is really two halves called hemispheres. These two halves are connected by a large bundle of nerve fibers called the corpus collosum. Structurally, there are three main divisions of the brain: forebrain, midbrain, and hindbrain.
Article / Updated 09-21-2020
Besides the brain itself, cells and chemicals are some of the major components of biological psychology. At the cellular level of brain anatomy is what many brain scientists consider to be the fundamental unit of the brain and the nervous system: the neuron, a specialized cell that provides the foundation for brain functioning, which is communication among nerve cells.
Article / Updated 09-21-2020
What makes a good psychological movie or show? A good psychological film or show makes the viewer feel, act, and think like a psychologist. It’s a lens (literally and figuratively) that affords you the gaze of the psychologist. Could good psychological films and shows really just be another form of data collection and analysis, even research, or even therapy?
Cheat Sheet / Updated 06-28-2021
The main question that fuels psychology is “Why do people do what they do?” Psychology basically aims to uncover what people do along with why and how they do it. Studying everyday behavior and mental processes is the focus of psychology much of the time. But sometimes the stresses of life can seem overwhelming, and in those cases people need help right away.
Article / Updated 03-26-2016
The greatest example of the psychological concept of persuasion comes from the movie franchise, Star Wars. Jedi warriors have the ability to influence the thoughts of others by using “The Force” for what’s called the “Jedi mind trick.
Persuasion is a powerful force in all social interactions and arrangements. People don’t just use it to sell products.
Article / Updated 03-26-2016
When someone is in a state of panic or extremely angry about something, it’s useful to have some basic ideas of how to help. You can use psychological first aid — a form of crisis intervention that consists of five easy steps.
Connect: Make psychological contact with the person in crisis.
Make eye contact and communicate a sense of caring.
Article / Updated 09-02-2021
Psychology recognizes the power of love, and how good it feels to be loved and to love someone else. There's even a psychological analysis of it. Elaine Hatfield and Richard Rapson, psychologists at the University of Hawaii, identify two specific types of love:
Passionate love: Intense love with a sexual or romantic quality.
Article / Updated 03-26-2016
In psychology a family consists of at least two people related by blood, marriage, or adoption. It seems like families have changed quite a bit over the last 20 years, including increasing numbers of single-parent families, gay marriages, and blended families of divorce. A lot of marriages end in divorce, so children are learning to manage two sets of parents, half-siblings, and split holidays
The McMaster model of family functioning breaks down seven major components of, you guessed it, family functioning:
Problem solving: The family’s ability to resolve issues and maintain family functioning.