101 Things I Learned in Psychology School 1st Edition by Tim Bono, Matthew Frederick ISBN 9780451496751 0451496752

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ISBN 10: 0451496752
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Author: Tim Bono, Matthew Frederick

101 Things I Learned in Psychology School 1st Edition Table of contents:

1. 1 | Psychiatry leans toward nature. Psychology leans toward nurture.
2. 2 | A psychologist is a statistician.
3. 3 | The type of question determines the type of research.
4. 4 | A sample must represent those not in the sample.
5. 5 | Seek concrete answers, not merely quantitative answers.
6. 6 | A 7-point scale is really a 5-point scale.
7. 7 | Subjectivity is more objective when you have a lot of it.
8. 8 | Positive isn’t good. Negative isn’t bad.
9. 9 | Most phenomena are bell-shaped.
10. 10 | Where there are people, there is bias. Where there is judgment, there is noise.
11. 11 | What is most representative?
12. 12 | Significant is not necessarily important.
13. 13 | Data needs a story.
14. 14 | How to give a research talk
15. 15 | Put your unused ideas in the parking lot.
16. 16 | Gray matter is pink.
17. 17 | The brain is electric.
18. 18 | Neurotransmitters are text messages. Hormones are snail mail.
19. 19 | An extreme case illuminates the ordinary.
20. 20 | Higher thinking happens higher in the brain.
21. 21 | The logical left brain/creative right brain distinction is a myth.
22. 22 | The womb isn’t a neutral environment.
23. 23 | Twins raised apart are more similar than twins raised together.
24. 24 | Infants put things in their mouths. Toddlers put things in categories.
25. 25 | Progression may look like regression.
26. 26 | Theory of mind
27. 27 | If you make it through your twenties, you are probably in the clear.
28. 28 | Trauma can override innate personality.
29. 29 | As nurture failed him
30. 30 | “Trauma in a person, decontextualized over time, looks like personality. Trauma in a family, decontextualized over time, looks like family traits. Trauma in a people, decontextualized over time, looks like culture.”
31. 31 | Emotions link body and intellect.
32. 32 | Emotions are asymmetrical.
33. 33 | Men and women are equally emotional.
34. 34 | Extroverts are less responsive.
35. 35 | Male: narcissistic ≈ female: histrionic
36. 36 | Men are “funny.”
37. 37 | Women are “hysterical.”
38. 38 | Venting makes us angrier.
39. 39 | “Allowing our anger to fester creates the perfect environment for anger to turn into hate, and that is not okay. The best thing we can do is be honest about how we are feeling.”
40. 40 | The central task of adulthood is integrity.
41. 41 | Be an adult.
42. 42 | Too much responsibility or not enough?
43. 43 | A moral person values law and order. A very moral person might not.
44. 44 | Guilt is productive. Shame is wasteful.
45. 45 | How to apologize
46. 46 | You forgot the name of the person you just met because you didn’t rehearse it.
47. 47 | Interruption aids memory.
48. 48 | Forgetting makes the mind more efficient.
49. 49 | People who aren’t smart can’t tell.
50. 50 | Depressed people are realistic.
51. 51 | “To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.”
52. 52 | Some anxiety is good.
53. 53 | Perform difficult tasks in isolation and easy tasks in front of others.
54. 54 | How to train a pet
55. 55 | Superstition results from inadvertent reinforcement.
56. 56 | Rewards can backfire.
57. 57 | The more options, the more disappointment.
58. 58 | “If people go through life looking for good enough results, the choice problem will take care of itself. Go through your day getting a good enough cup of coffee and a good enough toasted bagel and so on and so on and life will look much sunnier.”
59. 59 | Bronze beats silver.
60. 60 | Abusers find people who don’t weed out.
61. 61 | We understand reality better when we leave parts of it out.
62. 62 | The cause might be the effect.
63. 63 | Put space and time between expense and experience.
64. 64 | Time is malleable.
65. 65 | “Time is relative; its only worth depends upon what we do as it is passing.”
66. 66 | Meditation doesn’t clear the mind; it focuses the mind.
67. 67 | Insanity is a legal, not psychological, term.
68. 68 | Schizophrenia isn’t multiple personality disorder.
69. 69 | Drugs are impersonators.
70. 70 | Exercise beats Zoloft.
71. 71 | We read a wrod as a whole, not eahc letter by itslef.
72. 72 | An object’s color is the opposite of what we see.
73. 73 | The brain sees more than the eye sees.
74. 74 | How to find your blind spot
75. 75 | We resolve dissonance by changing whatever is easiest to change.
76. 76 | The Asch conformity experiments
77. 77 | “You become the average of the five people you spend the most time with.”
78. 78 | New information is old.
79. 79 | It’s hard to study dreams.
80. 80 | Nap for less than 20 minutes or more than 90 minutes.
81. 81 | Familiarity doesn’t always breed contempt.
82. 82 | Read the middle at the end.
83. 83 | How to teach
84. 84 | Bigger words suggest smaller intellect.
85. 85 | Little problems, unaddressed, become big problems.
86. 86 | “In life, we can’t always control the first arrow. However, the second arrow is our reaction to the first. The second arrow is optional.”
87. 87 | Therapy is an alliance.
88. 88 | Feign innocent confusion at the patient’s discrepancies.
89. 89 | The Rosenhan Experiment
90. 90 | Faking mental illness is evidence of mental illness.
91. 91 | “It’s a lot harder to convince people you’re sane than it is to convince them you’re crazy.”
92. 92 | Societies decide abnormality.
93. 93 | Mentally ill, mentally diseased, or mentally injured?
94. 94 | Szasz: There is no mental illness; there are only problems in living.
95. 95 | Nature doesn’t draw boundaries where we draw them.
96. 96 | The soft sciences are hard.
97. 97 | “Science is often misrepresented as ‘the body of knowledge acquired by performing replicated controlled experiments in the laboratory.’ Actually, science is something broader: the acquisition of reliable knowledge about the world.”
98. 98 | You can’t be good at or interested in everything.
99. 99 | A diagnosis is a judgment call.
100. 100 | Seek a way through, not out.
101. 101 | Nothing is truly broken; there is only the honoring of the journey.
102. Dedication
103. Acknowledgments
104. Index

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