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includes index and biblioraphy

1 Current issues in psychology 1. On reading the popular press ...2 2. Psychology as a means of promoting human welfare ...6 3. Skinner`s utopia : Panaces , or path to hell ? ...11 4. New psychology : New image of man ....18 5. Humanistic theory : The third revolution in psychology ...25 6. A fall -safe plan ...30 7 Employment testing debate simmers in and out of court ...31 2 Biological bases of behavior 8 Left - braiin ,right - brain ...36 9 Brain damage : A window on the mind ...40 10 Observing the brain through a cat`s eyes ...44 11 How real is our reality ...47 12 The promise and peril of psychosurgery ...48 13 Shutting the gate on pain ...52 14 Biofeedback : An exercise in self control ...58 15 We have the awful knowledge to make exact copies of human beings ...63 16 New clues to the causes of violence ....73 17 The evolution of the stress concept ....79 18 The neurophyslology of meditation ....87 19 Marijuans : does it damages the brain ? ...89 3 Processes Underlying behavior 20 Shapers at work ...94 21 Little brother is changing you ...104 22 Psychologists are rediscovering the mind ...108 23 Peak , memory : The riddle of recall and forgetfulness ...114 24 Talking with chimpanzee ...118 25 That confounding enemy of sleep ...127 26 Dream world ...134 27 That helpless feeling : The dangers of stress ...141 28 Hypnosis is no mirage ...145 29 Parapasychology : The science of the uncanny ...148 4 Development 30 If oedipus parents had only known ...154 31 A child`s mind is shaped before age 2 ...156 32 Glant in the nursery jean piaget ...159 33 Erik erikson`s eight ages of man ...170 34 Means and ends : Moral development and moral education ...182 35 The parent gap ...186 36 New light on adult life cycles ...191 5 Individual differences 37 The difficult baby is born what way ...194 38 There are sex differences in the mind ...198 39 Why woman fear success ...204 40 Homosexuallty ...209 41 When black children grow up in white homes ...212 42 Something better than binet ? ...215 43 Sexuallty and the cycle : A broad concept of sexuallty ...219 6 Disorders and therapy 44 On being sane in insane places ...228 45 Lettera to science concerning on being sane in insane ...237 46 Boredom : The most prevalent American disease ...238 47 Coping with depression ...243 48 Finding psychiatric help can be traumatic itself ...248 49 How when and why to fire your shrink ...251 50 Clock work gray ...254 51 A road to self- control ...256 52 The way of love and trust : The senaitivity / Encounter movement ...260 53 Alternative to analysis ...267 7 Social behavior 54 If hitier asked you to electrocute a stranger, would you ? ...276 55 Pathology of imprisonment ...281 56 Group think ...284 57 The social disease called shyness ...288 58 How students control their drug crisis ...291 59 Coming on strong ...294 60 The american way of mating ...295