Psychology for beginners: The basics of psychology explained simply - understanding and manipulating people

By Claudia Sonnenbeck

Psychology is a subject with wide and partially unexplored horizons. The psychological well-being of an individual is in fact dependent on every single influence. Beginning in the womb, continuing with the upbringing, with hobbies, views, knowledge, feelings and learned values. These influences provide namely for positive or also for negative development. The opposites of the positive and negative development describe thereby roughly finally the psychology. The task of psychology is to explain behaviors of an individual. In doing so, it offers the possibility of overcoming problems, such as fears.
In order to better understand psychology, with all its topics and areas, the following listed contents are helpful. Psychology is very complex: with the help of this guide, the basics of psychology, step by step, will be served to you on a silver platter.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Claudia Sonnenbeck
• Release date: Apr 5, 2023
• ISBN: 9798215433010

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Psychology for beginners

The basics of psychology explained simply - understanding and manipulating people

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Claudia Sonnenbeck

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Content

Introduction to psychology

The history of psychology

Self-test: What is my mental state?

Scientific psychology vs. lay psychology

Areas of psychology

Currents of psychology

Physiological psychology

Psychosomatics

Perceptual Psychology

Perception theory

Gestalt Psychology

Sensory perception

Figure-Ground-Perception (Example Ruby Cup by Wellhöger 1990)

Personality Psychology

The Big Five Personality Model

Big-Five Self-Test: What personality do I have?

How can you change your character / personality structures?

Developmental Psychology

Social Psychology

Advertising Psychology

Sports Psychology

Positive psychology

10 useful affirmations

Learn positive thinking exercises

Motivational Psychology

Experimental psychology

Clinical psychology

The psychology of our pets

The Freudian iceberg model

40 incredible psychological effects

The Spotlight Effect

Self-efficacy expectation

Blemish effect

Reactance

Pygmalion effect

Halo effect

Swimmer Body Illusion

Social Loafing

Socrates irony

The Authority Bias

The Confirmation Bias

The self-serving bias

The Outcome Bias

The action bias

The Liking Bias

The Survivorship Bias

The contrast effect

The hedonistic treadmill

The availability error

The possession effect

The selection paradox

The Sunk Cost Fallacy Effect

The Priming Effect

The illusion of control

The reciprocity

The player fallacy

The scarcity fallacy

The Westermarck Effect

The Dunning-Kruger Effect

The placebo effect

The nocebo effect

The Bystander Effect

The Barnum Effect

The superstar effect

The Hawthorne Effect

The reverse psychology

Effective manipulation and NLP techniques

Manipulate through pleasant atmosphere

Manipulation with the help of strong emotions

Lies

Conceal

Manipulation through rewarding

Manipulation by means of criticism

Change numbers

Foot in the door technique

Rhetorical means

Rapport (Neurolinguistic Programming)

Mirroring (Neurolinguistic Programming)

Leading (Neurolinguistic Programming)

Reframing (Neurolinguistic Programming)

Change habits

Visualization as an aid to achieving goals

Close

Introduction to psychology

Psychology is a subject with wide and partially unexplored horizons. The psychological well-being of an individual is in fact dependent on every single influence. Starting in the womb, continuing with education, hobbies, views, knowledge, feelings and learned values. These influences provide namely for positive development or also for negative development. These opposites of the positive and negative development describe thereby roughly seen finally the psychology. This tries to explain behaviors of an individual and offers the possibility to overcome fears, for example.

To ensure a good introduction to the subject, it is important to mention that one groups the generic term of psychology into many detailed aspects and subtopics. In this context, new findings regularly contribute to the development and progress of psychology. For example, new methods and new therapies are developed through advanced brain research and behavioral observations by compiling statistics.

The term psychology comes from the ancient Greek and means - if translated literally - as much as psychology or the study of the soul. The human senses, i.e. seeing, hearing, smelling, feeling and tasting, are particularly important in this so-called psychology, because these senses help with almost every mental disorder or are one of the first construction sites.

To better understand psychology, with all the topics and areas, the following listed content is helpful. Psychology is very complex, but herewith psychology is explained simply for beginners.

The history of psychology

The history of psychology provides one with an important background knowledge to understand psychology, because many of our therapies today are based on thinking at that time. First of all, psychology can be traced back to the 19th century. At that time, the official establishment of psychology as an independent and scientifically respected field of research happened through the joining of research groups. However, this field of research actually existed before Christ. A Greek scholar named Aristotle, who was a philosopher and natural scientist by profession, wrote a book called De anima - On the Soul - in which he talks about the soul of man, discusses and conjectures. This book and the discussions of that