"How to Think Straight About Psychology is a concise and easy-to-read "handbook" that evaluates the most important concepts and issues in psychology. Written in an engaging and nontechnical style, this acclaimed book, now in its fifth edition, highlights the essential concepts of falsifiability, operationism, experimental control, converging evidence, and correlational versus experimental studi…
Jenius itu diciptakan, bukan dilahirkan. Dan manusia dikaruniai potensi yang hampir tak terbatas dalam belajar dan berkreativitas. Kini Anda dapat menyingkap kemampuan diri Anda yang masih tersembunyi, mempertajam indra, dan membebaskan kecerdasan unik Anda dengan mengikuti teladan yang diberikan oleh jenius terbesar sepanjang masa, Leonardo da Vinci. Penulis terkemuka Michael J. Gelb, yang tel…
"[Bachelard] is neither a self-confessed and tortured atheist like Satre, nor, like Chardin, a heretic combining a belief in God with a proficiency in modern science. But, within the French context, he is almost as important as they are because he has a pseudo-religious force, without taking a stand on religion. To define him as briefly as possible – he is a philosopher, with a professional t…
In this heartfelt and scholarly treatise, Lear, chair of Yale's philosophy department and clinical associate of the Western New England Institute for Psychoanalysis, takes up where Freud left off, following ``connections, insights, consequences of Freudian thoughts that Freud himself did not pursue.'' Sticking close to psychoanalytic structure and language, Lear explores the significance of Fre…
The late Carl Rogers, founder of the humanistic psychology movement and father of client-centered therapy, based his life's work on his fundamental belief in the human potential for growth. A Way of Being was written in the early 1980s, near the end of Carl Rogers's career, and serves as a coda to his classic On Becoming a Person. More philosophical than his earlier writings, it traces his prof…
A Study of Thinking is a pioneering account of how human beings achieve a measure of rationality in spite of the constraints imposed by bias, limited attention and memory, and the risks of error imposed by pressures of time and ignorance. First published in 1956 and hailed at its appearance as a groundbreaking study, it is still read three decades later as a major contribution to our understand…